Archaeology News 20h ago

Genetic study shows dogs traveled with humans across Eurasia for 11,000 years

For tens of thousands of years, dogs have been in symbiosis with people across the vast range of Eurasia, but new genetic findings indicate that their history was tied to human migrations more closely than previously known...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/dogs-traveled-with-humans-across-eurasia/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #huntergatherer #bronzeage #dog

Radical Anthropology2d ago

This new paper/preprint on #huntergatherer #egalitarianism highlights the confusion with imagining h-gs as 'noble savages' (oh please!). Egalitarianism actually entails the most sophisticated human politics and doesn't reduce to 'equality'. Key is individual autonomy and, genderwise, coalitionary resistance to coercion.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/egalitarianism-is-not-equality-moving-from-outcome-to-process-in-the-study-of-human-political-organisation/8B8E13583AF33C64A1FB1B05AEB2846B

Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation

Cambridge Core
Biohacking Pathway3d ago

From Tanzania to the lab: hunting with hunter-gatherers reveals how periods of feast and famine can actually trigger a system of conservation & repair.

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#HunterGatherer #Tanzania #FastingBenefits #CellularRepair #Mitochondria #BloodSugarControl #InflammationReduction #WellnessJourney

Site Pouchet du CNRS3d ago

📽️ 🍿 Prochainement, une projection de 3 films de recherche, réalisés par des membres du réseau RUSHS, avec pour sujet commun la mission de filmer un terrain.

🗓️ Mercredi 26 novembre à 18h
📍 Institut des systèmes complexes de Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF), 113, rue Nationale, Paris 13e

Venez ainsi découvrir :
- « Alaska, le sol se dérobe » (9 minutes, 2024), réalisé par Sonia Collavizza (CNRS Images) ;
- « Devenir sédentaire » (14 minutes, 2024), réalisé par Paul Rambaud (MSH Mondes) ;
- « LEALula, L'écologie linguistique d'une oasis en mutation » (27 minutes, 2025), réalisé par Céline Ferlita (UAR ARDIS).

Participation gratuite sur inscription : https://iscpif.fr/projection-rushs-25/

Projection en partenariat avec la MSH Monde, ARDIS (CNRS) et l’ISC-PIF.

@cnrs @cnrsshs @CNRS_INSU @reseaurushs @iscpif @canal_u @lpg_lab @fannybocquentin @darcheogaussein @msh_mondes @umr8068 @shs @mate_shs_cnrs @linguistique

#climatechange #geology #pergelisol #archeology #prehistory #huntergatherer #Jordan #linguistics #arabic

Radical AnthropologyOct 22

Look for a 400-year-old castle and come up with a #Mesolithic Irish #huntergatherer camp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24qjkk91go

Derrygonnelly : 'Mind-blowing' discovery of 8,000-year-old settlement

A QUB team was hoping to find the ruins of a castle, but they discovered artefacts dating back to the Mesolithic period.

BBC News
Archaeology News Sep 16

9,000-year-old workshop discovery in Senegal reveals life of West Africa’s last hunter-gatherers

Archaeologists have found rare remains of West Africa’s last hunter-gatherer communities, offering a new glimpse into the lives and sustenance of these people and their circumstances from 9,000 years ago...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/9000-year-old-workshop-discovery-in-senegal/

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Guillaume le RougeSep 12

"...that great Philanthropic film, Themroc." - René Viénet

https://www.cda.pl/video/516901918

#caveman #absurdism #goingpostal #vandalism #copkiller #cannibalism #incest #primitivism #luddism #huntergatherer #antitech #preindustrial #antimodern #cinémafrançais

Radical AnthropologySep 11

This is a good piece on the fallacy of imagining that #egalitarianism among #huntergatherer forebears depended on women doing hunting. No, it doesn't!

As argued here, women's role in gathering and childcare was more fundamental in creation of human society (language, ritual, art, culture, everything!).

https://elenabridgers.substack.com/p/did-women-hunt-in-our-evolutionary

Did Women Hunt in Our Evolutionary Past?

When Western gender ideology gets in the way of good science

MOTHERHOOD UNTIL YESTERDAY
Biohacking PathwaySep 3

From Tanzania to the lab: hunting with hunter-gatherers reveals how periods of feast and famine can actually trigger a system of conservation & repair.

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#HunterGatherer #Tanzania #FastingBenefits #CellularRepair #Mitochondria #BloodSugarControl #InflammationReduction #WellnessJourney

Jens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this?! 🤯🤔

What really puzzles me is the disbelief that hunter-gatherers somehow could be capable of cultural achievements.

Does this come from an outdated idea equalling #HunterGatherer with #primitive?

🧵 A fundmental misunderstanding ...

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Jens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this?! 🤯🤔

What really puzzles me is the disbelief that hunter-gatherers somehow could be capable of cultural achievements.

Does this come from an outdated idea equalling #HunterGatherer with #primitive?

🧵 A fundmental misunderstanding ...

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

We're the same humans after all.

With the same intellectual abilities, innovative drive, and practical capabilities. Even 10,000, 20,000 or 300,000 years ago.

We still *are* these humans.

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/lascaux/en

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/mammoth-bones-circle.html

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277927

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.science.org/content/article/stonehenge-other-ancient-rock-structures-may-trace-their-origins-monuments

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://theconversation.com/stone-age-megastructure-under-baltic-sea-sheds-light-on-strategy-used-by-palaeolithic-hunters-over-10-000-years-ago-223665

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2023/fup_23_291-aelteste-siedlung-amnya-nachgewiesen/index.html

Show threadJens NotroffAug 10
We're still the same humans. With the same intellectual abilities, innovative drive, and practical capabilities.
Show threadSara Joy Aug 10
@jens2go they probably had a lot more time on their hands too. Of course they had skills, created art, thought, dreamed.
Show threadJens NotroffAug 10

@sarajw Good point! Tme really doesn't seem to be much of an issue in this case:

https://time.com/archive/6637219/anthropology-the-original-affluent-society/

Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society

Imagine a society in which the work week seldom exceeds 19 hours, material wealth is considered a burden, and no one is much richer than anyone else. The trespasser is unknown, there are no...

Time
Show threadSara Joy Aug 10

@jens2go I came across this article too: https://rewild.com/in-depth/leisure.html

Does make you wonder sometimes, what am I doing, really. Too many of us now to just hunt and gather, though...

Hunter-gatherers have more leisure time.

Some people say that the advent of farming gave people more leisure time to build up civilization, but hunter-gatherers actually have far more leisure time than farmers do, and more still than modern people in the industrialized world.

Rewild.com
Show threadCullen McHaelAug 11

@jens2go I more and more suspect this kind of confusion about ancient deep time peoples must be arising from seeing the world through the lense of white exceptionalism.

They think that modernity is required to achieve anything, where by modernity they mean whiteness, even if they don’t consciously acknowledge it. It’s orientalism pure and simple, just couched as skepticism.

Show threadacmAug 10
@jens2go it's so weird to be in that cave (or the reproduction they've made to preserve the original from degradation by our breaths) and think, These were people. And we have no idea what they were like or up to.
Show threadShdwdrgnAug 10

@jens2go I'm guessing the 300k was a typo? The theories I've seen are that the human brain hasn't changed in 100,000 years, which is a very long time for our species but the blink of an eye for the history of the planet.

It really amazes me that these imbeciles believe they are somehow smarter than hunter-gatherers. Having access to more knowledge doesn't make you smarter, and these folks prove it every day.

Show threadcrazyeddieAug 10

@Shdwdrgn @jens2go Knowledge is a tool and tools make you smarter by teaching you how to use them. The tools for thinking, such as empirical science, that we have are more capable than what they had. The very idea of evolution by natural selection makes us able to think of new, more complex things and see the world in a more truthful way. So ... "smarter".

They were fully as biologically capable as us, but they didn't have the same tools...for whatever "smart" is worth.

Show threadShdwdrgnAug 10

@crazyeddie @jens2go Sure, but what I'm saying is that if you were able to take a child from that time period, allow them to grow up in our modern day, then that child would likely be indistinguishable from any other child.

Being "smart" is making use of the knowledge you have access to. I wouldn't call a flat-earther "smart" because they have access to the same information I do, and yet they choose to ignore reality despite having similar brain capacity.

Show threadJens NotroffAug 11
@Shdwdrgn I actually meant 300k; wasn't referring to brain or psyche but really about intellectual capabilities.
Show threadElizenery🔻Aug 10
@jens2go My father was a hunter-gatherer - a fisherman - and many generations of male family members. Not a different species.
Show threadMartin RundkvistAug 10
@jens2go You gotta have Digestive crackers & cheese if you gonna culture!
Show threadNate GaylinnAug 10
@jens2go I hate how some folks argue hunter-gatherers couldn't possibly be so smart, based on nothing, rather than take this as evidence that maybe they aren't so dumb. I wonder what that phrase really means to these people.
Show threadJayAug 10
@jens2go Do these people think it must have been made by a sedentary civilization, or is this skewing more toward conspiracy as in “how could these primitive nonwhi-uh…mere hunter-gatherers make something impressive?”
Show threadMichael PorterAug 11

@jens2go Reminds me of this, for some reason 😉

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Show threadMostlyTatoAug 11
@jens2go
The hunter-gatherer label isn't really that accurate sometimes. Its not like societies went to bed one night as hunter gatherers then woke up the next day as farmers.
In late Mesolithic to early Neolithic Britain there was likely a lot of interplay between the two ways of subsisting, with hunting, gathering and small scale localised farming with things like transhumance being practiced alongside each other.
A tendency towards more settled agriculture may have taken hundreds of years.
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 13

@jens2go rememeber:

"Just because non-whites did it doesn't mean it was aliens!"

Show threadJens NotroffAug 13

@kkarhan

Definitely agreeing. 😉

https://mastodon.social/@jens2go/115020996172963870