2026-10-09T03:58:31Z https://nostr.now Anthropology.net https://nostr.now/npub1z3f60mm0005da9l9t5fy4cxlxc776m6f00yltuul5spxw66lvyqsjpqsc2 https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/accounts/avatars/109/859/883/932/795/860/original/786418add8b29391.png https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/accounts/avatars/109/859/883/932/795/860/original/786418add8b29391.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst7r4hjsyc2320tjfyv7j8vkskas6jn09cpgpyw9p2tlv2vg48zrczyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttassz2uc6le More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. #Archaeology #IndigenousAustralia #PopulationGenetics <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/australia-was-home-to-22-million">https://www.anthropology.net/p/australia-was-home-to-22-million</a> 2026-09-16T19:44:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz0df5fcn82chvvhyl4sff3rf4uwz9adujyhh044tcsgmw8m3kc5gzyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszadqawn A Bronze Age barrow in Suffolk sat empty for 2,000 years. Then Romans enclosed it, built a painted shrine beside it, and buried six pig skulls facing east. Nobody knows which god. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #BronzeAge <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/six-pig-skulls-facing-east-a-roman">https://www.anthropology.net/p/six-pig-skulls-facing-east-a-roman</a> 2026-09-04T13:30:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2567hl3ut4zgtutq0pvrf0q8jte7lppk32rgkluvy4f0fyrc2a8qzyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszkljymw A new study drilled 26 sediment cores beneath an ancient Sudanese capital and found 12,500 years of Nile history. The geology explains why Napata, heart of the Kushite empire, lasted over a millennium. #Archaeology #AncientNubia #Kush <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-nile-built-at-jebel-barkal">https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-nile-built-at-jebel-barkal</a> 2026-04-27T23:12:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszckjgfdnnef28h0cjv66g4chrpm000ldtl3yx4j5r64nnmreeruqzyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszz52n0l Charred residues on 6,000-year-old pottery are revealing prehistoric European “recipes” — guelder rose berries with fish, greens with cyprinids, tubers alongside dairy. Forager cuisine was more intentional than we thought. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HunterGatherers <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-was-actually-in-the-pot">https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-was-actually-in-the-pot</a> 2026-03-05T04:17:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqw4zn34k2ryd9et5f8a0cc24cgam8pz03ckqwq2plqlaeuykyc6szyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszv7eufm Two rare wooden tools from Greece, dated to 430,000 years ago, reveal a hidden side of early hominin technology. These fragile artifacts hint at a vanished world of organic tools that shaped daily life. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1awutufec4mfeeuwknwx3v6q2ycc826hsx5aj6e3vljntf22c5apsc5drv0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Katerina Harvati</span> (<span class="italic">npub1awu…drv0</span>)</a></span> <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tools-that-time-almost-erased">https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tools-that-time-almost-erased</a> 2026-01-26T23:56:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf8qch38uns3lyder3ltq0ftenmy8ll8pm8uafyus8gv20h3n09hszyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttassz8e49g4 New research overturns the myth of perfectly equal hunter-gatherers. Even the most “egalitarian” societies navigate inequality using subtle political tools that protect autonomy. Equality, it turns out, is hard-won. #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Foragers #Inequality <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-equality-has-edges-rethinking">https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-equality-has-edges-rethinking</a> 2025-12-08T18:52:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrfe7n8ggfu84c0p57md9fc2y09vn38kt5pm4wy6xqtjxp2dtgwuczyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszt84ltn A 70,000-year-old ochre “crayon” from Crimea reveals Neanderthals shaped pigments for symbolic marking, challenging assumptions about their minds and culture. These pigments hint at ritual, identity, and shared symbolic roots. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #Anthropology #Evolution <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/crayons-of-the-pleistocene">https://www.anthropology.net/p/crayons-of-the-pleistocene</a> 2025-10-31T02:33:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf4vymgjleu0nlrsqla9a79stqjxskgt0z2kl0488268xdm6eq54czyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttasszn07a7x Charred adzuki beans from a 9,000-year-old site in China reveal a complex, multi-regional story of crop domestication in East Asia. Agriculture began as a network, not a single cradle. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neolithic <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/seeds-of-change-how-a-small-red-bean">https://www.anthropology.net/p/seeds-of-change-how-a-small-red-bean</a> 2025-09-23T18:15:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswd4cyn877uafxxzml3unkxad77zz894w58yel2ush0tqq2ugtydszyq298fl0daa73h5hu4w3yjhqmumrmmt0f9auna0nn7jqyemttassz57wfcd Ancient DNA confirms Yersinia pestis caused the Justinian Plague—the first pandemic in history. Jerash’s Roman hippodrome became a mass grave, revealing a story that still resonates today. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #History #Pandemics <a href="https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ghost-of-a-pandemic-unearthing">https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ghost-of-a-pandemic-unearthing</a> 2025-08-31T00:22:51Z