Anthropology
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Why do the Somali have such thin bodies and large foreheads? This physical type is often explained as an adaptation to desert heat, but occurs in no other desert population outside...
Modern populations in southern Kyushu do have greater Jomon related admixture but considering we now know ancient peninsular samples have even greater amounts of said admixture thi...
On September 15, 2023, a bomb dropped: Costin Alamariu's _Selective Breeding & the Birth of Philosophy_ appeared on Amazon. A small group of frens decided to hold a series of spa...
These are pictures of the black populations of ancient Greece & Rome. You will find websites and ignorant historians tell you that these are depictions of "Africans" living in Euro...
When Japanese population genetics discourse was less advanced than it is now prior to more sophisticated testing methods and a larger pool of samples it wasn't uncommon for laymen...
Hoga considers the migration path of the "tenson tribe" (Sun oriented blacksmith culture bearers) to be Shanxi → Shandong → Liaoxi → Korean Peninsula → Japanese archipelago https:/...
The mystery (and controversy) surrounding the identity of the Ancient Egyptians is now over, at least academically. With whole genome samples from individuals from the Old Kingdom,...
This work (posted by @dxrsam_0) is a fascinating anthropological explanation of the primal power dynamics in the Rgveda. If you are an ancient history enthusiast, you must read it...
Hyperborea is literally real by the way. Not even as an abstract concept, it actually existed. Ice Age Siberia was home to the ancestral forebears of the Indo-European, Altaic, and...
PYGMY MASTER RACE THEORY Pygmies. Funny little chaps who couldn't keep up in evolution & lost out to more advanced races, right? Wrong. In this short thread I'm going to argue th...
Returning to the Pirahã - Round two of Everett's book 'Don't Sleep There Are Snakes' Some curious, interesting and bizarre snapshots of life with the Pirahã. If you want the full...
The Evolution Of The Pointed Stick A thread concerning humanity's greatest invention - a long stick with a sharp bit on the end. https://t.co/UxNuzqRmZE
New paper in Science magazine concludes that "Indo-European" languages emerged 8k years ago i.e. 3k years before earlier linguistic theories. It also suggests southern origin in Mi...
A colonial empire has been described as those empires where the resettlement of populations from the center of the empire to its fringes take place. If so, the Inca Empire (or Ta...
The Pirahã are the apex Millers Around, but they share many or all of these characteristics with many other “primitive” groups: a shocking disregard for anything other than day to...
A thread of excerpts from Daniel Everett's book 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes' about his time with the Amazonian Pirahãs. I don't think there's another people quite as unusual a...
The concept of the "invented tradition" is yet another "classic" of soft science pseudointellectuals, who love using it to imply that many traditions are "fake" because they were "...
In my readings of books about “reimagining masculinity”, I’ve come across authors using the Semai people of the Malay Peninsula as an example of a culture that doesn’t have your ty...
Talal Asad, professor of anthropology, and son of the renowned Muhammad Asad, on liberalism: "The central principles of liberalism...rests on assumptions about the nature of manki...
I’m going to entertain the troll today. Don’t know what he means by “modern negro genetic ancestry” for that doesn’t exist in the biological sense. I’ll start by saying that the th...
When it comes to material evidence of past human societies people greatly underestimate how much lost or destroyed in a 1000 years. Let alone in 10,000 or 100,000 years. We have t...
Genetic Ancestry of The Brahmins. A detailed chart covering the Brahmin groups from as far East as Assam to as far West as Gujarat and as far North as Kashmir. https://t.co/fQr8LR...
The Huaorani tribe, also known as Waorani or Waos, is an indigenous group residing in Eastern Ecuador within the Amazon rainforest. This isolated tribe, consisting of approximately...
Fascinating how many groups have been where they are now for far shorter than you'd think. The Maasai only came down from Sudan 5-600 years ago, the Zulu entered Zululand even mor...
