@agysimba.bsky.social
This is true and should not be surprising. Boas is still correct. Over time: A culturally defined population can change biology and/or language. A linguistically defined population can change cultures and/or biology. A biologically defined group can change language and/or culture.
We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
www.science.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
This is true and should not be surprising. Boas is still correct. Over time: A culturally defined population can change biology and/or language. A linguistically defined population can change cultures and/or biology. A biologically defined group can change language and/or culture.
Explore what the pre-Nazi Germans did to the Nama, Herero and some eastern Africans.
Excellent article from David Wengrow. Given how much the far right and white supremacists have co-opted history and prehistory, as well as "race science", this should be required reading for anyone interested in how we combat fascism seeping its vile way into perceptions of the archaeological past.
To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Explore what the pre-Nazi Germans did to the Nama, Herero and some eastern Africans.
It is important to note the differences between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as found by Henri Frankfort in Kingship and the Gods.
In the 1950s scholars wrote about the “vitalist” aspects of ancient Egyptian & Mesopotamian cosmology: the non-human world was animate, personified. Then, in the 70s, they traced the origins of extractive, imperial regimes to these same civilisations. What’s fascinating imo is that both can be true.
January 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It is important to note the differences between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as found by Henri Frankfort in Kingship and the Gods.
Reposted
Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
Reposted
Today we announce that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize. Congratulations David Wengrow and the late David Graeber @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @davidwengrow.bsky.social
sarweb.org/news-2025-st...
sarweb.org/news-2025-st...
The Dawn of Everything Receives 2025 J. I. Staley Prize for Anthropological Excellence - School for Advanced Research
The School for Advanced Research announces The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow as the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize recipient, recognizing its groundbreaking...
sarweb.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Today we announce that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize. Congratulations David Wengrow and the late David Graeber @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @davidwengrow.bsky.social
sarweb.org/news-2025-st...
sarweb.org/news-2025-st...
Reposted
At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
J.I. Staley Prize - School for Advanced Research
sarweb.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
Reposted
#kleineNachtmusik - Thu-Jan 15th, 26
#JazzSky #Jazz #Blues #music #MusicSky #musique #jazzmusic
..:: B I L L I E H O L I D A Y & L O U I S A R M S T R O N G ::..
& his Orchestra
#JazzSky #Jazz #Blues #music #MusicSky #musique #jazzmusic
..:: B I L L I E H O L I D A Y & L O U I S A R M S T R O N G ::..
& his Orchestra
Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - The Blues Are Brewin
YouTube video by Leon Calquin
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:37 PM
#kleineNachtmusik - Thu-Jan 15th, 26
#JazzSky #Jazz #Blues #music #MusicSky #musique #jazzmusic
..:: B I L L I E H O L I D A Y & L O U I S A R M S T R O N G ::..
& his Orchestra
#JazzSky #Jazz #Blues #music #MusicSky #musique #jazzmusic
..:: B I L L I E H O L I D A Y & L O U I S A R M S T R O N G ::..
& his Orchestra
Reposted
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Reposted
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Reposted
Harvi Griffin – Wave [USA, Spirutual Jazz, Harp Jazz] (1985) Jobim goes jazz harp.
https://redd.it/olcx0s
https://youtu.be/r_MyjPMYrlM
https://redd.it/olcx0s
https://youtu.be/r_MyjPMYrlM
Harvi Griffin – Wave [USA, Spirutual Jazz, Harp Jazz] (1985) Jobim goes jazz harp.
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Harvi Griffin – Wave [USA, Spirutual Jazz, Harp Jazz] (1985) Jobim goes jazz harp.
https://redd.it/olcx0s
https://youtu.be/r_MyjPMYrlM
https://redd.it/olcx0s
https://youtu.be/r_MyjPMYrlM
Reposted
Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan's 'Of The Near And Far' uses constellations to generate music for a ten-piece ensemble while signaling her background in orchestral percussion, alternative rock, and the chamber works of Glass and Xenakis.
Astronomy Harmonie — Patricia Brennan's Celestial Chamber Jazz:
Astronomy Harmonie — Patricia Brennan's Celestial Chamber Jazz:
Patricia Brennan's Celestial Chamber Jazz
The vibraphonist's 'Of The Near And Far' superimposes constellations over the circle of fifths to generate pitch collections for a ten-piece ensemble while signaling her background in orchestral percussion, alternative rock, and the chamber works of Glass and Xenakis.
www.thetonearm.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan's 'Of The Near And Far' uses constellations to generate music for a ten-piece ensemble while signaling her background in orchestral percussion, alternative rock, and the chamber works of Glass and Xenakis.
Astronomy Harmonie — Patricia Brennan's Celestial Chamber Jazz:
Astronomy Harmonie — Patricia Brennan's Celestial Chamber Jazz:
Reposted
January 14, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Reposted
a bona fide spiritual jazz holy grail, 1993, finally gets a deluxe remaster and reissue ✨
boomkat.com/products/afr...
boomkat.com/products/afr...
January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
a bona fide spiritual jazz holy grail, 1993, finally gets a deluxe remaster and reissue ✨
boomkat.com/products/afr...
boomkat.com/products/afr...
Reposted
Bye Bye BlackBird - Miles Davis & John Coltrane Live @ Newport '58.mov
YouTube video by Henry Robinett
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Reposted
Detroit jazz: Bennie Maupin reflecting on Alice Coltrane being a PERCUSSIONIST in high school concert band!
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Detroit jazz: Bennie Maupin reflecting on Alice Coltrane being a PERCUSSIONIST in high school concert band!
Reposted
With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild world of free music.
Now Jazz Now100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 is out now via Ecstatic Peace
buff.ly/diU2uZn
Now Jazz Now100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 is out now via Ecstatic Peace
buff.ly/diU2uZn
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild world of free music.
Now Jazz Now100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 is out now via Ecstatic Peace
buff.ly/diU2uZn
Now Jazz Now100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 is out now via Ecstatic Peace
buff.ly/diU2uZn
Reposted
The voodoo jazz funk of the 1975 piece "Gondwana" by Miles Davis. Players include Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. From the live album Pangaea. Length: 46:49. #Jazz #MilesDavis m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6iG...
Gondwana (Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan (2nd Show) - February 1975)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
m.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The voodoo jazz funk of the 1975 piece "Gondwana" by Miles Davis. Players include Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. From the live album Pangaea. Length: 46:49. #Jazz #MilesDavis m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6iG...
Reposted
Stan Getz and and the late jazz trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker performing "Just Friends" live in a 1983 Stockholm concert. Song can be found on Baker's 1955 album Chet Baker Sings and Plays. Length: 8:56. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vi...
Stan Getz and Chet Baker "Just Friends" 1983
YouTube video by nilsjoela
m.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Stan Getz and and the late jazz trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker performing "Just Friends" live in a 1983 Stockholm concert. Song can be found on Baker's 1955 album Chet Baker Sings and Plays. Length: 8:56. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vi...
January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Remember the name in Ingrassia over the next 10 years.
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Remember the name in Ingrassia over the next 10 years.
We need a book like the Dawn of Everything, that uses material from Africa (from Algeria to Zimbabwe) written by someone indigenous from there.
April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We need a book like the Dawn of Everything, that uses material from Africa (from Algeria to Zimbabwe) written by someone indigenous from there.
Reposted
Very nice indeed to see colleagues coming around to some of the broad points in #TheDawnOfEverything - even if the methods used are questionable. (House size = inequality is a pretty flimsy argument, as I explain here:
www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...)
www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...)
April 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Very nice indeed to see colleagues coming around to some of the broad points in #TheDawnOfEverything - even if the methods used are questionable. (House size = inequality is a pretty flimsy argument, as I explain here:
www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...)
www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...)
What is S. Miller's address? Protest outside his house is being planned. #Miller#racism#racist
February 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What is S. Miller's address? Protest outside his house is being planned. #Miller#racism#racist
Imperialism and colonialism in Gaza and Greenland. We need rap songs and videos all over the place. Get started. #Gaza #Greenland
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Imperialism and colonialism in Gaza and Greenland. We need rap songs and videos all over the place. Get started. #Gaza #Greenland
What President Trump proposed for Gaza is imperialist and colonialist. Yet the media have refused to speak about it in terms of colonialism and imperialism. The media has not even presented it as gentrification. Trump also dared to criticise South Africa. #gaza #trump #Palestinian #SouthAfrica
February 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What President Trump proposed for Gaza is imperialist and colonialist. Yet the media have refused to speak about it in terms of colonialism and imperialism. The media has not even presented it as gentrification. Trump also dared to criticise South Africa. #gaza #trump #Palestinian #SouthAfrica