Radical Anthropology
@radicalanthro.bsky.social
London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
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Our last RAG session before Xmas!
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌖 Tues Dec 9 🌗18:30 (London UTC)
'A Xmas Fairytale: The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌖 Tues Dec 9 🌗18:30 (London UTC)
'A Xmas Fairytale: The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
December 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our last RAG session before Xmas!
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌖 Tues Dec 9 🌗18:30 (London UTC)
'A Xmas Fairytale: The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌖 Tues Dec 9 🌗18:30 (London UTC)
'A Xmas Fairytale: The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
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Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa at University of Cambridge
Recruiting now: Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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December 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...
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Recently had the pleasure talking about changing mindsets in the #Neolithic with the wonderful @jomarchant.bsky.social for her "Where the Wild Thoughts Are" #podcast.
Catch a glimpse of our conversation in the highlights video she put together here: youtu.be/OeA6xfJDMFI
Catch a glimpse of our conversation in the highlights video she put together here: youtu.be/OeA6xfJDMFI
Secrets of Göbekli Tepe
YouTube video by Jo Marchant
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Recently had the pleasure talking about changing mindsets in the #Neolithic with the wonderful @jomarchant.bsky.social for her "Where the Wild Thoughts Are" #podcast.
Catch a glimpse of our conversation in the highlights video she put together here: youtu.be/OeA6xfJDMFI
Catch a glimpse of our conversation in the highlights video she put together here: youtu.be/OeA6xfJDMFI
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Jerome's talk on Nov 25 vimeo.com/1141995002?f...
The Flourishing Diversity Manifesto by Jerome Lewis November 25, 2025
Our colleague Jerome Lewis was one of the originators and facilitators of the Flourishing Diversity Network, bringing Indigenous activists and elders into western…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Jerome's talk on Nov 25 vimeo.com/1141995002?f...
I also wonder whether cat domestication was associated with onset of patriarchy (not the cats' fault, just a correlation, things were getting worse and the cats would have been a big help).
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I also wonder whether cat domestication was associated with onset of patriarchy (not the cats' fault, just a correlation, things were getting worse and the cats would have been a big help).
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Restoring Colombian habitat for titís and cotton-top tamarins:
“They teach you things. They look after their young. The only thing missing is that they don’t speak Spanish.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/02/monkeys-northern-colombia-habitat-cotton-top-tamarins-aoe
“They teach you things. They look after their young. The only thing missing is that they don’t speak Spanish.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/02/monkeys-northern-colombia-habitat-cotton-top-tamarins-aoe
‘They’re a lot like us’: saving the tiny punk monkeys facing extinction
In the tropical dry forests of northern Colombia, a small team is gradually restoring the degraded habitat of the rare cotton-top tamarin
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Restoring Colombian habitat for titís and cotton-top tamarins:
“They teach you things. They look after their young. The only thing missing is that they don’t speak Spanish.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/02/monkeys-northern-colombia-habitat-cotton-top-tamarins-aoe
“They teach you things. They look after their young. The only thing missing is that they don’t speak Spanish.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/02/monkeys-northern-colombia-habitat-cotton-top-tamarins-aoe
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TONIGHT
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Free community Fediscience, please boost.
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
[Original post on c.im]
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
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December 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
TONIGHT
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
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New genomic evidence suggests humans reached Sahul around 60,000 years ago via two distinct routes. The findings highlight early seafaring, deep population roots, and complex migrations shaping Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestry. #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Sahul #HumanOrigins
The First Horizon: How Ancient Genomes Redraw the Story of Australia’s Earliest Peoples
New genetic evidence strengthens the case for a much earlier and more complex human arrival in Sahul.
www.anthropology.net
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New genomic evidence suggests humans reached Sahul around 60,000 years ago via two distinct routes. The findings highlight early seafaring, deep population roots, and complex migrations shaping Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestry. #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Sahul #HumanOrigins
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New radiocarbon dates from Mezhyrich suggest mammoth-bone houses were short-term Ice Age shelters, not permanent settlements. A fresh look at human ingenuity during the coldest millennia. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanOrigins #IceAge www.anthropology.net/p/shelters-o...
Shelters of Bone: Rethinking Ice Age Ingenuity at Mezhyrich
A revised radiocarbon analysis reframes one of Europe’s most iconic Paleolithic sites and the lives of the mammoth hunters who passed through it.
www.anthropology.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
New radiocarbon dates from Mezhyrich suggest mammoth-bone houses were short-term Ice Age shelters, not permanent settlements. A fresh look at human ingenuity during the coldest millennia. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanOrigins #IceAge www.anthropology.net/p/shelters-o...
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Genetics in support of the 'long chronology' of >60,000 years for human entry to #australia
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/how-modern-humans-first-arrived-in-australia/
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/how-modern-humans-first-arrived-in-australia/
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genetics in support of the 'long chronology' of >60,000 years for human entry to #australia
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/how-modern-humans-first-arrived-in-australia/
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/how-modern-humans-first-arrived-in-australia/
TONIGHT
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
Free community Fediscience, please boost.
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
[Original post on c.im]
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
[Original post on c.im]
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
TONIGHT
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Tax the rich to help the poor? That’s certain NOT how states originally emerged. People were forced to grow grain because it was eminently taxable. Those taxes were then used to construct extreme hierarchies with the rich at the top. Writing was used to record taxes and build their institutions.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tax the rich to help the poor? That’s certain NOT how states originally emerged. People were forced to grow grain because it was eminently taxable. Those taxes were then used to construct extreme hierarchies with the rich at the top. Writing was used to record taxes and build their institutions.
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The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings als...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
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More here on human uniqueness when it comes to metrical perception and action in music www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Core systems of music perception
Human musicality is supported by two distinct systems of representation: one for tonal
perception, which contextualizes pitch input in reference to a hierarchy of tones;
and one for metrical perceptio...
www.cell.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
More here on human uniqueness when it comes to metrical perception and action in music www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Monkeys have rhythm
Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
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Ibrahim al Khalili reports on children in Gaza having to become the main bread winner in the family after their fathers have been killed.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Ibrahim al Khalili reports on children in Gaza having to become the main bread winner in the family after their fathers have been killed.
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"Palestinian children are still dying slowly"
Hind Khoudary reporting this morning.
Hind Khoudary reporting this morning.
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"Palestinian children are still dying slowly"
Hind Khoudary reporting this morning.
Hind Khoudary reporting this morning.
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Nearly half of Gazas population are children.
▪️39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since Oct 2023
▪️660,000 children are out of school
▪️At least 132,000 children under the age of 5 face acute malnutrition
▪️39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since Oct 2023
▪️660,000 children are out of school
▪️At least 132,000 children under the age of 5 face acute malnutrition
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Nearly half of Gazas population are children.
▪️39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since Oct 2023
▪️660,000 children are out of school
▪️At least 132,000 children under the age of 5 face acute malnutrition
▪️39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since Oct 2023
▪️660,000 children are out of school
▪️At least 132,000 children under the age of 5 face acute malnutrition
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The beautiful AR 4294 taken on Sunday (4.22PM, UTC+7) with waxing gibbous 74.6% at 9.35PM.
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The beautiful AR 4294 taken on Sunday (4.22PM, UTC+7) with waxing gibbous 74.6% at 9.35PM.
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"Sameer Project will continue to assist... by clearing the streets of rubble, cleaning debris filled structures, renting and fueling heavy machinery and bringing large crews to tend to destroyed neighborhoods.
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Sameer Project will continue to assist... by clearing the streets of rubble, cleaning debris filled structures, renting and fueling heavy machinery and bringing large crews to tend to destroyed neighborhoods.
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
TOMORROW EVENING
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
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Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
[Original post on c.im]
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔 Tues Dec 2, 18:30 🌕 (London UTC)
'The advantages of living with Mum. Brideservice and matrilocality'
Camilla Power and Chris Knight
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept […]
[Original post on c.im]
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
TOMORROW EVENING
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak
LIVE Daryll Forde Room 230, 2nd Floor UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
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