Anthropology
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What was Ukraine’s experience under the Russian rule? Looking at it through non-human actors can bring striking insights into the tsarist society’s racial stereotypes and their leg...
Fun fact: anthropologists believe that neanderthal shoulders weren't very good at throwing things, and that their hunting method was to hang onto large animals and stab em. This i...
[PART TWO] THE CASE OF OPEN-AIR SETTLEMENT OF MAROULAS IN KYTHNOS AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE AEGEAN MESOLITHIC. https://t.co/PdUCPM5IZE
[PART ONE] FROM THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC TO THE MESOLITHIC: FIRST INDICATIONS OF THE APPROPRIATION OF HABITATION SITES AND PRE-DOMESTICATION OF WILD ANIMALS - THE CASES OF FRANCHTHI...
The Okunevo had a rather complex ancestry for their time with the IE Afanasievo from Yamnaya, the Baikal Early neolithic type, another Altai contribution with ANE& Paleosiberian. T...
The Khoi/San of East Africa, WaHadzabe. The Hadza, or Hadzabe (Wahadzabe in Swahili),are a Tanzanian indigenous ethnic group mostly based in southwest Karatu District of Arusha....
ANCIENT BLACK CHINESE. The Negritos original native ancient asians believe to leave North Africa 100,000 years ago, is what the Chinese people and several Asians believed they cam...
Al-Beruni in the 11th century called the Afghans a "savage tribe of the Hindus" occupying the "farthermost frontier of the Hindu race" Ibn-Batuta in the 14th century called them a...
Andronovo subcultures lasted till 1200-1000 BCE in Central Asia, which is during the supposed age of Rig Veda given by Witzel, Parpola & others. https://t.co/GT5x74imQ5
All tribes/ethnic groups in Southern Africa (including the Khoi & San) have one thing in common, they all trace their history to the middle part of Africa or present day DR-Congo &...
In 1936, Cambridge anthropologist JD Unwin wrote a remarkable 600+ page book called Sex and Culture. In it he examined data from 86 societies and civilisations to see if there was...
Mainstream model of an "indian veda" composed post settlement in India doesn't explain why shruti traditions are so distinct and tribal from inception (diff RV,YV clans for e.g.)...
@vicayana Yamnaya is just Sredny Stog or Progress + Ukr Mesolithic. Davidski more or less had this conclusion from the samples he has access to.
Big fan of the Indus Valley and all, but the lack of literature from it means there is nothing for me to relate to. I have zero cultural/religious attachment to it. Who were these...
Interesting article on the Basque people published in 1937 "Stubbornly they have resisted not only conquest, but also amalgamation in the flux of shifting, prowling, predatory pe...
HOW OUT OF SOMALILAND BECAME OUT OF AFRICA. THE STORY OF OUR HUMAN ORIGIN. Sir Haywood Walter Seton-Karr (1859-1938), a Scottish game-hunter made two visits to British Somaliland i...
Peoples of Central Asia (including the Tarim Basin & central Siberia) had a lot of ANE ancestry into the 3rd millennium BC, and also had paleo-Siberian ancestry (distantly related...
Lot of talk is made of the Indo-Europeans on here but not enough of the grandfathers of the Indo-Europeans: the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) This is tragic, especially for us Ind...
After IE, the Austronesian language family is another for which a fairly good linguistic history that aligns with other material sources exists. The genetic evidence supports an or...
oh boy. cant wait to take my naive empiricism into the void. this is a great idea. i wonder if any aspect of my worldview will incorporate the fact that the universal testimon...
What if you launched a war against your neighbours, not to gain land or treasure, but to forcibly create new people? The Iroquois Wars for Mourning, Grief, Revenge and Beavers in...
Not much mixing in Scandinavia with Europe in centuries before Viking Age. Lot of mixing with Balts in Gotland & British-Irish in S Sweden/Denmark during Viking Age, but they contr...
Lot has been made about how violent Indo-Europeans were to Neolithic European Farmers or European Hunter Gatherers or to the Indus Valley, but what no one talks of is they were the...
Lot of variance in Khoisan ancestry in South African Bantus - Tswana have the most (~20%), Tsonga the least (~1.5%). Khoisan ancestry is always entirely from women. https://t.co/Pt...