Notices by Radical Anthropology (radicalanthro@c.im)

The precious #fossils of #SouthAfrica's Cape Coast

#geoheritage #ichnology #fossiltracks

https://theconversation.com/fossil-treasure-chest-how-to-preserve-the-geoheritage-of-south-africas-cape-coast-241290?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

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Tuesday next week, day before Dark Moon 🌑
Jan 28, 18:30 (London UTC)
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'

Hunting played a key role in human evolution, including in the development of human life history. As a complex skill, hunting likely involved a long learning period to develop competencies. Archaeological evidence of learning this skill includes hunting gear, butchered prey, and art, yet many of these data would be lost to time because the elements are either organic and don’t preserve, or are intangible. Ethnographic data can help us to fill in these gaps including how children and adolescents might have developed embodied skills which would have allowed them and their communities to survive and thrive.

In this talk leading archaeologist Annemieke Milks gives an overview of some relevant archaeological and ethnographic records of the hunting activities of forager children and adolescents, and explores commonalities and divergences. While the ethnographic data are significant, particularly in understanding the importance of play, practice, teaching and language, the archaeological record has its own unique stories to tell, which may not have perfect analogies amongst recent foragers.

Annemieke will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

#BaYaka #huntingskills #experimentalarchaeology #ethnography #children #archaeology #anthropology

Direct competition between #AI start-ups and people for #watersupplies in SE #England

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/labour-ai-datacentre-growth-zone-water-shortages-abingdon-reservoir

Action urged by #AmnestyInternational here

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actions/kurdish-woman-activist-sentenced-death

Pakhshan #Azizi, under threat of execution by #Iran, has dedicated her life to advocating for vulnerable women and promoting equality in her community.

https://cfppi.org/2025/01/11/joint-statement-68-human-and-womens-rights-organizations-urge-the-international-community-to-pressure-iran-to-revoke-the-death-sentence-for-jailed-womens-rights-activis/?amp=1

'most great whale species have an “unrecognized potential for great longevity that has been masked by the demographic disruptions of industrial whaling.”'

#whales #longevity #lifehistory

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/whles-life-expectancy-research-report-b2670301.html

The Democratic Republic of #Congo has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium saying that #Apple's supply chain is contaminated with "blood minerals".

Their lawyers argue Apple is complicit in crimes committed by armed groups that control mines.

#bloodminerals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8g540wz3jo?at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=link&at_link_id=00CAA0BA-BC86-11EF-A7A5-805D0F232FA9&at_link_origin=BBCAfrica&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link

This is a key text by Siddhartha Kara

Exciting recent paper on precolonial #ostricheggshell #bead exchange networks in SouthEast #Africa

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2411138?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstract

Back to prison, your wrists are too thin, you old eco-witch! 🤦

Meanwhile Storm Darragh rages and causes much more damage than any 77-year-old #JustStopOil activist.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/07/just-stop-oil-activist-gaie-delap-facing-jail-recall-as-wrists-too-small-for-electronic-tag

Great piece from #BrennaHassett

Rather than being too 'simple' and 'poor' to invent rank, #egalitarian #huntergatherers are 'too complex to allow one person or group of people to take charge'.

(Stupid AI generated image shows almost all men hanging around camp, which is in fact totally unrealistic. As usual where are women, children, grandmothers who would be the heart of the camp?!)

https://slguardian.org/the-hunter-gatherer-guide-to-keeping-society-equal/

A very important step of reckoning for #Belgium's #colonial crimes. This should open the floodgates (for what amounted to forms of genocide).

'The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.

In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of “systematic kidnapping” by the state when they were removed from their mothers as small children and sent to Catholic institutions because of their mixed-race origins.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/02/belgium-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-colonial-congo

Interesting article from Peter #Turchin on the historic patterns of #civilisational #collapse which we are witnessing now. Fundamental is increasing levels of social #inequality -- the exact opposite of what made us human in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/the-deep-historical-forces-that-explain-trumps-win

Identification of 7000-year-old #arrow #poison in Kruger Cave, South #Africa.

'This is the oldest unequivocal complex hunting poison recipe yet identified, notwithstanding the many chemically unsupported assertions of older examples. Furthermore, the identification of ricinoleic acid points to the possibility of ricin as a third toxin, and lends credence to the 2012 interpretation of this compound’s presence on a 24 000-year-old wooden applicator at Border Cave, South Africa'

#huntergatherers

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02663-4

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LIVE or ZOOM

🌖Tues Nov 19 🌗18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisStringer
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Denisovans, Dragon Man and more...'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

World expert on human fossils, Chris Stringer, main originator of the #RecentOutofAfrica model, will be discussing some of the latest fossil evidence and developments in palaeogenomics, looking at Chinese/E Asia Middle Pleistocene lineages.

He is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. Get there in good time by 6:30 pm before doors close.or join on ZOOM.

#fossils #China #MiddlePleistocene #Denisova #Harbin #anthropology #palaeontology #palaeogenetics

Mud and insults hurled by people at the State

'In flooded towns such as Alfafar and Sedaví, mayors described feeling abandoned by officials as residents scrambled to shovel mud from their homes and clear streets. In some areas, residents were still trying to secure electricity supply or stable phone service.

'On Friday, the catastrophic images emanating from these municipalities coalesced into a show of solidarity, as thousands of volunteers from lesser-affected areas trekked to the hardest-hit areas carrying shovels, brooms and food supplies. On Saturday, thousands more turned up at Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences, which had been hastily converted into the nerve centre of the clean-up operation.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/03/residents-throw-mud-and-insults-at-spanish-king-on-visit-to-flood-hit-town

People help people -- not the state.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3deke3ey58o

This is an utter disgusting disgrace, our colleague and comrade Prof Haim Bresheeth being harassed and intimidated by our genocide-facilitating government. Son of Holocaust survivors, this man understands the history of Nazism and Zionism. He has told us stories of his childhood in Jaffa when his family met with the Arab family who had been displaced from the home they now lived in. Subsequently he had educational experience of settler colonialism serving in the IOF. So listen to him.

#neveragain

https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/113415848546698713

This bag was arrested trying to sneak into the National Gallery, London. Must be a terrorist!!

A small pathetic incident this past week -- and 'pathetic' is the right word for the #genocide #complicity permeating our lives. This was nothing like the #police raid on Electronic Intifada (#Palestine's #weapon of #Mass #Instruction) and oh orders of magnitude less and less than what's being done to people in Palestine and #Lebanon now...

I went with a friend over from the US to visit the National Gallery. When we went through bag check, quite extraordinarily the bag security personnel (doubtless under orders) told me I could not carry a bag with a 'Free Palestine' badge. Unbelieving I stood there and started to raise my voice on such willingness by a national institution to side with genocide! I continued to yell, bewildered. So were the bag check guys, wondering what to do with me. They were indicating 'just cover it up' which was appalling enough. Because of my friend, I slipped in.

But the whole of my bag was crying
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE
anyway (beautiful design by Peckham Keffiyeh, Green and Black Cross)!

DNA-researcher: 'It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution'

#skinpigment #Europe #prehistoric #aDNA #anthropology

https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715

@aral @EUCommission not sure firing on Indonesian peacekeepers is any better tho?