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🌗Tuesday May 20🌘 18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #VivekVenkataraman
'The Meaning and Dividends of Man the Hunter'

Vivek writes: 'The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this talk, which follows a recently posted collaborative paper with other hunter-gatherer scholars, I ask: what does Man the Hunter mean? I distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter; first, the 1966 conference; second, popularized sexist theories of human origins; and third, the human behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. I then trace the historical development of these three meanings of Man the Hunter, situating their origins in evolutionary biology, ethnology, feminist studies, ethology, genetics, and other disciplines. This allows us to ask: how are these meanings connected intellectually? After presenting a surprising answer to this question, I conclude by offering suggestions for improving scientific and popular discourse regarding Man the Hunter.'

Vivek is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary approaches to the study of foraging behavior, energetics, and health. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His present research focuses in Malaysia, where he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP), which studies the rise of chronic non-infectious diseases over time due to rapidly changing environments. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hunter Gatherer Research.

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A Namibian San hunter lifts his bow and arrow taking aim stragiht towards the camera
#hunting#gender#humanorigins
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If you like thinking and learning about human prehistory, you'll like this interview with geneticist David Reich. Two hours on what research tells us about human origins, how modern humans relate to Neanderthals and Denisovans, ancient DNA, ancient epidemics, admixture, how genetics informs archaeology, and the spread of the Yamnaya from the steppes.

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#DavidReich#HumanOrigins#HumanGenetics
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Everybody welcome, just turn up!

TONIGHT, Last Quarter Moon 🌗
Jan 21, 18:30 (London UTC)
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM

Camilla Power on
'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the human revolution'

Camilla Power will be comparing the evidence for the emergence of language, art and symbolism between the lineages of Neanderthals in Eurasia and Homo sapiens in Africa. Some similarities and some differences are suggested by archaeological, fossil, demographic + palaeogenomic data. Did both populations engage in the human symbolic revolution, and was this fundamental to interchange between them?

#humanorigins #Neanderthals #modernhumans #symbolicculture #anthropology #archaeology #fossils

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Please come on time before doors close.

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The floor of Bruniquel Cave showing broken stalagmites arranged in elliptical rings (c.176,000 years ago)
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FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT!!
Our Spring Term of Radical #Anthropology starts
6:30pm London time.

Everybody welcome, just turn up! LIVE or ZOOM

🌕Tues Jan 14 gregorian🌖 18:30 (London)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology + on ZOOM

'When Eve Laughed: The origins of language'
"Why, out of 220 primate species, are we the only one which talks? Laughter, too, is unique to our species. Although different from language, collective, contagious laughter may have set the scene for words + grammar to evolve by establishing the necessary bonds of trust. In addition to the latest archaeological research, this talk will draw on hunter-gatherer studies to show how men learn to communicate with birds and beasts and how women use laughter as a levelling device."

#humanorigins #language #ritual #symbolicculture

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

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BaYaka Mbendjele girls come out laughing, singing, dancing, drumming from their initiation school Ngoku Photo: Jerome Lewis
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An earlier review of 2022 studies on #Neanderthal #family life. Social structure according to #genetics looks like #patrilocal with #females moving out of groups.

We are close to 💯 per cent certain that #Homosapiens did the exact opposite -- daughters stayed with their mums, and sons-in-law came into the group to do #brideservice. We are so sure here because it's what #African #huntergatherers do. As a result, our lineage flourishes (thanks to grandmothers), Neanderthals dwindled (lack of grandmothers?) and numerous Neanderthal women could have moved into the incoming African origin groups.

#humanorigins #anthropology #Pleistocene #kinship

cell.com/current-biology/fullt

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FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM

🌑Tues Dec 3🌒 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Modern metaphors from political resistance movements applied to human evolution'

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

Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight will be discussing the final chapter of their book on the topic of importing modern industrial political action as models for human evolutionary strategies. How can such ideas address an Indigenous voice to make them relevant?

#strikeaction #directaction #picketline #humanorigins #symbolicculture #red #ritual #solidarity

They are 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 ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

Young women decide to use red ochre body paint to say NO to Heathrow expansion. They are surrounded by protestors in red t-shirts
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On the occasion of the death of world famous #Neolithic #archaeologist and Tory peer #ColinRenfrew we have a few things to say.

Looking down at us from the #Cambridge high table, he made some severe misjudgements. His #sapientparadox was an attempt to argue that while #Homosapiens bodies evolved in #Africa, somehow we didn't get smart till we hit #Europe.

Also highly questionable was his attitude to the #cognition of #huntergatherers who, so he said, 'lacked fully developed mind'. According to him, they needed to borrow language from farmers.

We had some big political and social institutional differences with Renfrew. Our own Chris Knight goes through the whole context in a review below

#archaeology #Renfrew #racism #Indigenous #Palaeolithic #humanorigins

JRAI 2002, 8: 807-8
A devastating review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'

Screenshot of JRAI 2002 vol 8 p.807 1st page of scathing review by Chris Knight of the Runcimnn collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'
Screenshot of JRAI 2002 vol 8 p.807 2nd page of scathing review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'
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In 'Before The Dawn of Everything', archaeologist #IanWatts questions Graeber and Wengrow's premise that searching for original human society 'can only be a matter of myth-making'. He argues, for Graeber and Wengrow, a ‘single human “us” can only be inferred from ~30,000 years ago'. The actual stretch of time when we became all-singing, all-dancing, language-speaking symbolic culture-bearing humans -- in Africa-- is abandoned as unknowable.

The latest archaeological findings and their interpretation suggest pan-African habitual performance of collective ritual, with a uniform signature of red cosmetic usage, from ~160,000 years ago around the end of speciation, grounding symbolic culture’s first shared imaginaries. While #TheDawnofEverything was clearly intended to be collectively empowering, it marginalises evolutionary theory, the archaeology of our speciation and African hunter-gatherer ethnography. Thereby, it resembles the decried ‘sapient paradox’! That is the fairly racist (!) idea that we got human bodies in Africa but had to reach Europe to show intelligence (or interesting archaeology!)

#archaeology #humanorigins #Africa #MiddleStoneAge #sapientparadox

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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For more #Fediscience of the #HumanRevolution see this 🧵 👇 👇

Our first proper 🧵on Mastodon today!
And it's a biggie! When and where did symbolic culture (ritual, art, language, well everything) emerge in the human lineage?

This question lies at the ❤️ of @RadicalAnthro 's research for 30 years. An exciting new paper from a team @ROCEEH (Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans) promises some answers.

#redochre #MiddleStoneAge #symbolicculture #ritual #humanorigins

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