really cool! I wonder whether this "these practices [could be] functioning as tools for social signalling and intergroup communication in the small-scale communities...]" could be tested along these lines: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

unlikely to have continuous inhabitation (the adriatic sea came and went at its own pleasure in those days, and there were several waves coming out of Africa and reaching the area via a few different routes). But it is kinda cool!

Yes, so much yes. And yet the temptation of getting some help from LLMs is tough when so many other tasks press. Argh I gotta go back to code without internet…

What happened to the kids 😱? ;-)

What a humbling trip (what is that the father doesn't see of the daughter, or chooses not to see?) & a privilege to be able to so concretely experience the constitutional partiality and contradictoriness of human experiences.

Reading them side by side during a long flight (after the computer gave up on me) opened a kaleidoscopic view of history and memory, of facts that don't match, of tragic blindspots, of hints never resolved. 3/

I then discovered his original notebooks had also be selectively published with comments by his daugher, the novelist Dacia Maraini. Dacia, it turns out had also written a strongly feminist novella decades earlier on the same events, AND another novel reinterpreting her mother's diaries. 2/

I unknowingly prepped this the other day, but I blended half of the zucchini + onion and used as cream in which to finish cooking the pasta