I finished reading “Reindeer Moon” by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas last night.

if you like prehistoric fiction, this was a good entry in that genre.

It was very detailed and made me feel like I had time travelled.

#Prehistory #AmReading #HistoricalFiction #HunterGatherers #Bookstodon #Anthropology #Adventure #Books #Paranormal

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Exciting new paper here assessing ages for #puberty onset and #menarche among #UpperPalaeolithic #huntergatherers (from Russia, Czechia, Italy).

'Our results revealed that while puberty had begun by 13.5 years of age for the majority of individuals, there was a lot of variability, with the adolescents from Arene Candide (AC1 and AC16), both aged around 16 years when they died, taking several years longer to progress through puberty than their peers. Assessing the age of menarche was challenging due to the paucity of female adolescents, but based on the available evidence, it appears to have occurred between 16 and 17 years of age. For some, full adulthood had been achieved by 17–22 years, similar to the patterns seen in modern wealthy countries and in advance of historic populations living in urbanized environments.'

#adolescence #lifehistory #humanevolution #anthropology #archaeology #burials

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842400085X?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email

Great piece from #BrennaHassett

Rather than being too 'simple' and 'poor' to invent rank, #egalitarian #huntergatherers are 'too complex to allow one person or group of people to take charge'.

(Stupid AI generated image shows almost all men hanging around camp, which is in fact totally unrealistic. As usual where are women, children, grandmothers who would be the heart of the camp?!)

https://slguardian.org/the-hunter-gatherer-guide-to-keeping-society-equal/

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!

Tues Nov 5, 18:30 (London UK)
with #HarryJenkinson
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Wild Service--the Human Right to Roam'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Harry Jenkinson will present the concept of Wild Service: a philosophy of reciprocity with our fellow species, made possible through increased human access to nature.

Humans are a nomadic species. For over 95% of our history, we have lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers, with nomadism central to understandings of ecological balance. But when we are politically and culturally restricted from nature, we become unable to take care of it. The Right to Roam movement, to which Harry belongs, calls for public access to the English countryside, 92% of which is inaccessible.

Looking at mobility and ecological reciprocity among Indigenous peoples today, Harry will discuss inspirations for Wild Service and draw upon his ethnographic work among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

Wild Service offers a renewal of relationships, where we recognise humanity as part of, rather than separate from nature.

Harry will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW.
Please arrive by 6:30pm before doors close. Or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
@right_2roam