SW China funerary #ochre record of the terminal #Pleistocene. This correctly refs article by our colleague @npub1yguc...qq6p on the oldest anthropogenic ochre use up to half a million years ago in S Africa. https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02140-9
#Bizmoune Cave, Morocco, one of the most advanced of our entire species lifespan. 'Bizmoune’s fame rests on its shell beads, first published in 2021 and dated to 142,000 to 150,000 years. New analyses now indicate the ornaments are older than earlier estimates, which raises the site’s profile as a benchmark for early symbolic behavior. The bead assemblage remains the earliest known example of personal adornment.' #MiddleStoneAge #Africa #NorthAfrica #shells #jewellery #ochre
Morocco World News
Essaouira’s Bizmoune Cave Yields New Clues to Early Humans
Morocco’s National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage has launched a month-long field season at Bizmoune Cave to refine the story of early hum...
Looks like a fascinating preprint on urbanization in red foxes: 'Animals’ willingness to touch, explore, and solve novel challenges, such as exploiting unfamiliar resources, are thought to be key behavioural characteristics for urban adaptation. Little is known about the impact of spatiotemporal patterns of urbanisation, particularly historical patterns of change, on these behaviours. We tested this in the world’s most urbanised carnivore, the red fox, using novel tasks deployed across 284 sites in the United Kingdom.' https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678765v1
An unknown lineage in #Argentina found in #aDNA over 8,000 years old in one of the last areas humans reached. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ancient-dna-uncovers-unknown-argentina.html
Please boost community Fediscience! 🌖Tues Nov 11🌗 6:30 pm (London UK) Chris Stringer New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution LIVE LG11 Lecture Room in Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak image
I so didn't realise that Mamdani's father was a Professor of #Anthropology and his mum Mira Nair. So anthropology had a bit of a role here?
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Meet the Aunties Behind Zohran Mamdani
The mayoral candidate
#Neanderthals deep into #Asia. New #mtDNA from Crimea, Starosele https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-neandertals-traveled-asia
Free community fediscience, please boost! 🌒Tues Oct 28 🌓 6:30pm 'The science of mythology. "The Sleeping Beauty" and other tales' Chris Knight LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak image
Possible difference between #Neanderthals (plus other archaics) compared with #Homosapiens in exposure to #lead contamination with effects on brain #development. A gene mutation in our ancestry could have worked protectively:- 'a gene called neuro-oncological ventral antigen 1 (NOVA1) plays a central role in human brain development and synapse formation. Considered the master regulator of neurodevelopment, NOVA1 controls how neural progenitor cells respond to lead. Disruption of NOVA1 activity is linked to several neurological disorders'
Did Lead Limit Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Extinct Hominids?
A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene mutation may have protected ...
This is a magnificent vid for DoubleDownNews with our friend and comrade Mark, organiser of the Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against Gaza Genocide. So clear, so true!
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What Israel REALLY Doesn’t Want You To Know - Holocaust Survivor son EXPOSES All
The Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See