Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.

#prosthetics #prosthesis #culturalheritage #archaeology #anthropology #bonehealth #biomaterials #ancientegypt #surgery #forensicscience #forensics #historyunveiled #innovation #sciart #qualityoflife #britishmuseum #history #engineering

Es folgen weitere Kapitel über disziplinäre Zugänge: Annika Lens & ich schreiben über die Geschichte, Rolle und Vielfalt der Fluchtforschung in der Ethnologie (I.1.6); Ivan Josipovic
& Sieglinde Rosenberger geben einen Überblick über politikwissenschaftliche Forschung zu Flucht und Asyl (I.1.7); Benjamin Etzold &
Birgit Glorius beleuchten die Geographie mit ihrem Fokus auf Raum und Räumlichkeit, spez. Methoden und regionalen Expertisen (I.1.8) ...
#Migration #Refugees #Anthropology #Geography

Karacha, the house of Kuhe.

This house, the Karacha, is occupied only once a year to store and grind corn, for the great Kuhe (corn bun) festival. Only those who are going to grind the corn can enter and the presence of the chief is especially repelled in it. Wealth must not be manipulated and managed by an idle individual. It belongs to the festival, for the collective joy.

#ethnography #photography #ecology #economy #anthropology

Ti z Vás, kteří jste ve filozofii a/nebo antropologii více ponoření byste jej možná považovali za povrchní, ale toto video mi opravdu zpestřilo večer:
https://az.piped.video/watch?v=WvGUTtYMUco

#anthropology #bigthink

Catherine J. Frieman & Daniela Hofmann (2019) Present pasts in the archaeology of genetics, identity, and migration in Europe: a critical essay, World Archaeology, 51:4, 528-545, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1627907 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Europe #European #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Migration #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology

"Where Walter Benjamin claims that, since history is written by the victors, every document of civilisation is a document of barbarism, Graeber and Wengrow seek to re-write certain foundational documents. However, while Benjamin writes against the grain in the name of the oppressed, the proletariat, Graeber and Wengrow appear to do so in the name of ‘freedom’."

#DanielZola

https://overland.org.au/2021/12/playing-with-history-a-review-of-the-dawn-of-everything/

#history #anthropology #WalterBenjamin #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #freedom #civilisation

Next was a short talk by Penny Spikins on the challenges of studying the #evolution of human cognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwXC8suBuqM (4/13) #anthropology

Always fun to see someone puncture the unwarranted hype around Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey, but this one is extra-detailed. Every time I expected the author to wrap up and say, "Okay, I think I've ripped it apart enough", they simply pivoted to an entire new *category* of things to destroy. Simply outstanding. (h/t @JulietEMcKenna via @marthawells)

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/ #writing #anthropology

Next was an engaging conversation with Kathelijne Koops on chimpanzee tool use on the Sage Social Science Bites podcast. Koops convincingly shows through field experiments that individual innovation is particularly challenging for chimps https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb2NpYWxzY2llbmNlYml0ZXMubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/ZjRiMWVjMDAtZWY3ZS00YzQxLWIwN2QtNTY2MGUzZWI3ZWYy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQh9_e-Z6BAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA (7/11) #anthropology

Next was a short talk by Penny Spikins on the #evolution of #autism. This is an amazing examination of why autism likely evolved and the advantages it confers on groups. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb3x_ZzZTbE&t=2s (6/11) #anthropology

If anyone for some reason is looking for a review essay assignment on #petroleum, #shipping, #capitalism, Mah's Petrochemical Planet would go well with Oil Beach and Negative Ecologies by David Bond.

@academicchatter @geography #Anthropology #STS

A thread requested by a colleague who is admirably live-tweeting #ACRA2023 #Archaeology conference, asking about my opinions for #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #Anthropology connections to private sector cultural resource management:
1/n. Reach Out – request a meeting with the chair of your local college departments that house anthropology or other programs of interest, get their dean in on that meeting (or a second meeting). Prime an information-and-activity pipeline.

Ancient Skull found in China may belong to previously unknown human lineage

A team of paleontologists has found evidence of a previously undocumented human lineage.

The research centered around the analysis of fossilized remains—a jawbone, partial skull, and leg bones—dating back 300,000 years.

Continue Reading: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/skull-found-in-china-may-belong-to-previously-unknown-human-lineage/
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#anthropology #hominid #denisovan

TED Talk by David Wengrow: *A New Understanding of Human History and the Roots of Inequality*

https://youtu.be/8SJi0sHrEI4

#History #DavidWengrow #DavidGraeber #archeology #anthropology #TEDtalk #books #anarchism

TED Talk by David Wengrow: *A New Understanding of Human History and the Roots of Inequality*

https://youtu.be/8SJi0sHrEI4

#History #DavidWengrow #DavidGraeber #archeology #anthropology #TEDtalk #anarchism

Family ties detected in 17th-century colonial cemetery in Delaware

A recent anthropological genetic study published in Current Biology sheds new light on the lives of early colonial settlers in 17th-century Delaware, uncovering intricate family structures and the intertwined existence of European settlers, enslaved African descendants, and European indentured servants.

Continue Reading: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/family-ties-detected-in-colonial-cemetery-delaware/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #delaware

Did humans nearly go extinct about 800,000 years ago?

Popular Science reports: "An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population" at that time.

https://flip.it/E.6cbM

#Humans #Anthropology #Archaeology #Evolution #ClimateChange #Science

Ulrich von Hutten (ein Reformator*in) war vermutlich inter* geschlechtlich: >>Ein Team von Zürcher Anthropologen kommt zu einem aufregenden Fund: Das Skelett des Humanisten ist ein weibliches. 🚺Die Forschenden gehen davon aus, dass von Hutten an einer hormonellen Störung litt, die sein äusseres Geschlechtsteil vermännlichte.<< https://www.facebook.com/srfkultur/posts/pfbid023C1MweLE5YSsmUDEJX1wCWxArwNyU5617WzzU7GibRAAUFNqn5JFh7FvHGbj3PUwl (leider viele dumme Kommentare bei Facebook)
#LGBT #queer #inter #hormones #anthropology #religion #reformation

#AncientAmericas

The Khipu (knot what you think...)

45 min video

for fellow #anthropology buffs. one of the nicest channels covering the Americas.

https://youtu.be/xaTjF5HAct8

#inca #SouthAmerica #Archeology

Next was an enlightening panel on the genesis of Pakistan's digital ID system at Brown with Zeha Hashmi, Aasim Khan, Dwaipayan Banerjee, and Russell Newman. This wide-ranging conversation shows the conscious choices that went into building one of the world's most comprehensive digital ID systems, the social choices that went into its design, and its implications. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Fx66w6bcw (7/10) #Pakistan #ethics #anthropology