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  1. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  2. Weitergabe über 500 Generationen: Das älteste Ritual der Welt

    nationalgeographic.de/geschich

    Aboriginal People, wie die Ureinwohner Australiens genannt werden, bewohnen Australien nach neuesten Untersuchungen vermutlich bereits seit etwa 60.000 Jahren. In dieser Zeit etablierten sich in den einzelnen Stämmen unzählige Rituale und Praktiken, die…

    #Science #News #Aboriginal #Australien #Indigenous #Australia #Archaology

  3. 3-JUN-2024
    Body of a woman is discovered among the remains of 25 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in #Guadalajara
    Research led by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Max Planck Institute determines the diet, lifestyle and causes of death of these #medieval religious knights

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #archaology #genome #humans #women

  4. In the West Country, an extremely rare 'polishing stone' has been found. The huge boulder has a smooth dip in which neolithic people would have polished the cutting edges of stone tools.

    #GoodNews #Neolithic #Stone #Polishing #Archaology #Find #History #Dorset

    theguardian.com/science/2023/j

  5. Intellectual prejudice regarding pre-colonial native tribes and #Mesoamerican cultures, in particular, is one of the greatest tragedies of modern academia. I can not understand how any educated person acting in good faith can believe that native tribes and cultures were anything less than the beautiful, vibrant, and industrious people that they were. The number of times I have seen archeological finds dismissed as 'not being possible' or because 'there must have been other factors at play' is wretched. I refuse to acknowledge these claims to be anything other than purposefully demeaning as it betrays the underlying thought that pre-colonial natives were nothing but savage cave people, which only strengthens colonial ideology...

    #History #Academics #Archaology