Anthropology
155 Threads
Semites and their Arabian Peninsula Origins
finished "the power of ritual in prehistory" by bryan hayden which i think is an essential read for the parapolitically inclined. major implications for the study of terror, the oc...
Many have been asking, who are the Gravettians? A thread. https://t.co/zZrOosQaGQ
Government departments (like @USDA & @DHSCgovuk) frequently publish dietary guidelines. But looking at hunter-gatherers & forager-farmers, I'm struck by how many violate Western gu...
The Significance of Archaeology - A Brief Thread https://t.co/fj9yajF6Pm
Ancient Indians called the native inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands as नारिकेलद्वीपवासी or “Coconut Island Dwellers” Their example was used in philosophy to describe a kind of p...
In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data...
I hunted, killed, and ate a wild baboon (brains and all) with the indigenous Hadza tribe in Africa. Here are the 13 things I learned about human health along the way. 👇 THREAD ht...
I'm increasingly converging on a hypothesis of the revitalization of the Indo-European religion by an Indo-Iranian warrior-ritualist elite. In this model, the early IEan branches H...
"Asabiyyah or asabiyya (Arabic: عصبيّة) is a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, group consciousness, and a sense of shared purpose and social cohesion, origina...
Hijab Row: a biological/anthropological take - A thread. Evolution has been most unkind to women. It’s evolution that gave males the advantage that they currently enjoy. The physi...
Want to be more interesting in 2022? I spent half of 2021 tweeting important and hard-to-believe stories...stories you were probably never taught in school. And now, they’re al...
Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea 🧬🇮🇩🌏 Cool paper - well worth a thread… (1/n) https://t.co/gxStSppNE9 https://t.co/SM6Y...
African history is replete with examples of both erotic & nonerotic same-sex relationships. For example, the ancient cave paintings of the San people near Guruve in Zimbabwe depict...
In our learning, re-learning and un-learning series, on Saturday the 23rd we posted a thread about a practice among the Agìkūyū called Nguìko-Sexless Romance. It one of the issues...
During his recent AMA with @TOEwithCurt, @LueElizondo addresses his 'Somber' comment. "We had a conversation. He said you know, Lue, mankind has been around for a little while,...
Polynesia and America - a thread. (1) Of all the daring deeds in the history of Man, few can rival the great voyages of the Polynesians. From their origins in the west, they sprea...
Some remarkable passages from Davi Kopenawa’s book The Falling Sky, discussing the Gods of the white people’s ancestors, whom white people have forgotten, but of whom Kopenawa and...
Re-reading enlightenment thoughts from a decolonial perspective makes one aware of how enlightenment thinkers were complicit in justifying imperialism on the grounds that there wer...
The story of horse is very unique thanks to humans. (THREAD) North America saw in the Eocene epoch (56-44 million years ago) a dwarf horse like animal with arched back. From that...
Some notes concerning the recent report of a pre-Neolithic young forager woman from Leang Panninge, South Sulawesi. Unfortunately, due to magazine fever many molecular paleoanthrop...
@shrikanth_krish There were also Eurasian steppe Indo-Iranians @ that time who survived till their eventual absorption into Turkic &Mongolic expansions. Several of these: Alani, sh...
i grew up with extended blackouts, dark streets, hand-washed clothes, the ever possibility of spoiled food, a candle outside the door of our apartment. i recently came home after t...
Ever heard of something called Zawlbuk? Its a community dormitory in the Mizo culture - first of all, there is nothing like Mizo or a Lushei tribe. What we have are clans, not trib...