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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Impact of bear denning on Neanderthals and Homo sapiens 'symbolic activities', certainly some but 'a key driver'?! #LatePleistocene #archaeology #morethanhuman

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@Ds03 Quite exquisitely made barricade, not sure where

In low morning light people are watching alert over a barricade of overlapping concrete blocks (some inscribed with ACAB). Looks like Paris under historic architecture.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Tuesday Oct 20 18:30 🌔 @UCL #anthropology All welcome LIVE and ZOOM Valya Marinova '21st century sex strikes, social reproduction struggles and liberal feminism #sexstrike #femalestrategies #socialreproduction

Colombian women mount a demonstration for their rights

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Four weeks today we're running an interdisciplinary workshop @UCL on the emergence of language: What made us "hunter-gatherers of words"? 🌑 Tues Nov 10 🌒 10:30-6pm A fantastic lineup of speakers -- details here,

Programme of Nov 10 workshop
'What made us hunter-gatherers of words?'
Session 1 Introduction: the emergence of virtual worlds. Speakers Chris Sinha, Cedric Boeckx, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Haneul Jang, Chris Stringer

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

All welcome Tues Oct 13, 18:30 London 🌒 @uclanthropology 'The Fire of the Jaguar: Problems with perspectivism' Chris Knight Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking […] [Original post on c.im]

Decorations of 'jaguar' design on a Piro girl initiate who is coming out of her first menstruation seclusion (Kigimawlo). She has a beautiful feathered cap and rafia armbands

Drawing pen and ink after Peter Gow's photo

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

'As far as we're concerned, we've won - our school is closed this morning," Lola, a 16-year-old protester, told the AFP news agency on Friday. She said police actions had made things worse. "It makes us even angrier - the police have no right to hit us or use tear gas on us," she added.'

Incredibly brave slips of girls stand right in front of tooled up robocops. They wear fetching red and black scarves over their mouths, red dyed hair and masks for the tear gas, with red flags and keffiyehs in the background. Montpellier today

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Join us for free Fediscience LIVE and ZOOM 🌗Tues evening Oct 6 🌘 18:30 London time @UCL #Anthropology Chris Knight and Camilla Power 'The sex-strike theory of human origins' The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. Acted out in sounds and gestures and […] [Original post on c.im]

The lunar cycle template organizing Palaeolithic menstrual ritual at new moon, hunting as nights grow bright, and then cooking and marital sex after full moon

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Solidarity to lovely Margaret Owen. I've met her involved in Peace in Kurdistan and a Jineology conference. Great to see her looking so good.

94-year-old woman wearing a keffiyeh and Free Palestine badge with her fist raised, police surrounding her on her right, another protester behind a sign saying 'I support Palestine Action, I oppose Genocide' on her left

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Vivid green grass and early autumn colours on the Holland Park waterfall

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Join us for free Fediscience LIVE and ZOOM 🌖 Next Tues evening Sept 29 🌖 18:30 London time @UCL Anthropology Chris Knight's classic structuralist decoding of fairytales 'The science of mythology: the "Sleeping Beauty" and other tales' The French anthropologist Claude […] [Original post on c.im]

A young princess in a pink silk gown with lace ruffles leans over an old crone and her spinning wheel. They are in a messy old garret

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The incredibly rude context of Ngoku initiate girls singing and gesturing 'the cunt always wins, the cock's tired already!'

A group of BaYaka initiate girls singing, drumming and gesturing rudely with sugar cane dildos (Photo J Lewis)

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' has landed! Chris proudly shows off the first copy he got his hands on. #humanorigins #thehumanrevolution #anthropology

An elderly anthropology professor shows off the very first copy of his book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' coauthored with Jerome Lewis

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Rare wallaby-tooth headband necklace from NE Australia rock shelter, Windmill Way. The image shows examples of such personal adornment #Indigenous #archaeology archaeology.org/news/2026/09/02/res…

Items of personal adornment from Australia with macropod incisors reminiscent of the recent find

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

C Stringer's annotations to Cousins et al. 2025, adding some possibly relevant fossils, and potential origin points for Homo sapiens (youngest preferred because that would follow the anatomy consolidation and main DNA mix). Omo Kibish variation would suggest recent mixing event..

Figure from Cousins, Scally Durbin 2025 with some fossils noted by Chris Stringer relevant for the stem population structures.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Chimpanzees usually fail a simple pointing task that human infants and dogs pass. A new iScience paper provides a possible explanation: once their attention is engaged, chimpanzees use human pointing to find hidden food 73% of the time. Attention may be the missing […] [Original post on c.im]

Figure 2. Three photos showing the experimental conditions. Left: the experimenter points toward the baited container while calling the chimpanzee’s name and making food grunts. Center: he points without vocal attention-getting cues. Right: he provides gaze and food grunts but does not point. Chimpanzees succeeded only when attention-getting cues and pointing were combined.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

The composite eclipse sequence at Kempton races (Edward Whitaker) The sun goes through lunar phases

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Communist University, Fri Aug 14, 3:30pm Camilla Power on 'Origins and theft of fire' Before play reading of Prometheus Bound.

Poster for Communist University talk by Camilla Power on Prometheus Bound, Fri Aug 14, 3.30pm

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Communist University, Fri Aug 14, 1pm Chris Knight on 'Chomsky and Epstein'

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RAG talks on Fri Aug 14, with Chris Knight 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language'

Poster for talk on 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' at Communist University, Fri Aug 14, 10am

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

This Clacton-on-Sea female coalition are pretty hard to resist. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/20…

From left) Ruby-Anne, Honey, Trewley, Tina and Pearl, all in glam evening dress, long blond hair and a couple of babes on the hip.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Summary on aDNA evidence of adaptations (includes lactase persistence/dairy, skin pigmentation/Neolithic Europe, plague resistance, older immunity and altitude adaptation from Neanderthals and Denisovans)

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Here's one of those pretty Neolithic looking feral ponies, an ecoengineer from the New Forest

A New Forest pony, let loose on Cissbury Ring to browse on herbage and gorse. Look at his fine hairy fetlocks

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Chris is hiking up Cissbury Ring, after wrapping up his book with Jerome #TheRevolutionaryOriginsofLanguage yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300289206/… Due in October Very Neolithic, lots of flint...and ponies!

An anthropology professor in Panama hat on a chalk path about to climb the stairs of the outer ramparts of the Cissbury Ring hill fort

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

A #bunnybuttFriday special with Jack admiring a cushion cover with fluffy tail, which my long lost niece knitted for me back in 2020.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Artefacts in the Upton Lovell Shaman display. Photograph: Wiltshire Museum

In the burial, an array of goods linked to metalworking, including the remains of a pouch decorated with boar’s tusks, four fossil sponges hollowed out into cups, flints, metalworking scribes and a touchstone, a dark-coloured stone that could be used to assess the quality of metal.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Lovely panoramic shot of Chauvet Cave, with 35,000 year-old woolly rhinos, mammoth and cave lions plus bison with animation effects.

Panorama of the 3D and animation effects on Chauvet Cave rock wall

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

This will be a super special exhibition of Ana Mendieta at the Tate Modern with her indubitably 'menstrual' and 'Palaeolithic' art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/20…

Making her mark, carving in rock by Ana Mendieta of female figure, lower half splashed with flow of red pigment, 1976
Photo: Marian Goodman Gallery, Alison Jacques

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Thanks to everybody fur your lovely messages for Jack! This is over 12 years ago, he was nearly two, his first spring as new husbun of Molly. He's looking so proud while she snacks on her pear blossom!

Two rabbits on the floor of an open cage full of fresh hay and straw with a big stick of pear blossom. The little brown mini-lop on the left is Molly, with an incredibly soft thick fur coat. On the right is handsome young Jack, a white rabbit with grey blotches round his eyes and left of his nostrils.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

We are in mourning, devastated to have lost our beautiful rabbit Jack. He was 14 years old -- 99 in human terms -- a very brave old boy. Last of the #radicalanthropologyrabbits standing, he hopped up every now and then on #rabbitsofmastodon our favourite community on the Fediverse. 🌈

Our white and grey upeared rabbit Jack, who started young in a SE London walled garden, and moved later to his SW London indoor free roam warren. Always perky, he grew old and wise.

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

After #BunnyButtFriday, #fossilFriday with the oldest basal Homo sapiens crania from Jebel Irhoud. Top is JI1, probably female, with bigger more robust JI2 below. The relatively modern face is the first key trait in our speciation, but no globular skull shape in these […] [Original post on c.im]

Photo from C Stringer: lateral comparison of Jebel Irhoud 1 (top -female?) and 2 (male?), showing the greater size and robusticty of Irhoud 2

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