#precolonial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #precolonial, aggregated by home.social.
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Sacred Sites As Refuges For Native Plant Diversity In An Urbanized Tropical Landscape [Madagascar]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-026-00489-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @nicolas Salliou | Senior scientist at ETH Zürich
“When [the authors] investigated the potential for blue-green infrastructures for the capital of Madagascar,… a large team surveyed plant communities along a rural-urban gradient.
They found that 12 Malagasy "sacred" hill settlements, situated in the core of a pre-colonial kingdom, are particularly precious as they host a high diversity of native plants. A key insights when one considers that Madagascar is a unique hotspot for biodiversity and human cultures…”
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“In fragmented and intensively managed remnant urban green spaces, enabling natural regeneration is crucial to sustain ecosystem functioning and associated services. Natural regeneration therefore offers an important lens into ecological resilience in human-modified landscapes. Here [the authors] present one of the most comprehensive field-based assessments of urban plant diversity in the Afrotropics, comprising over 25,000 naturally regenerating woody plant individuals of 206 species (39% native) across 329 vegetation patches in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Landscape-level native species diversity declined with greater building complexity, density and socio-economic development, whereas exotic species showed no consistent associations with determinants of urban characteristics. Native species richness was highest in ‘sacred’ forest fragments, many of which contain historic remains dating back to pre-colonial times. Notably, seven of the ten most species-rich patches were located in such sites. [Their] findings highlight the potentially important role of these sites in sustaining native species diversity and indicate how socio-cultural factors can present both opportunities and barriers for tropical urban conservation and restoration...”
#sacredsites #antananarivo #madagascar #vegetation #nativeplant #urban #greenspace #tropical #hillsettlements #spatialanalysis #survey #ecosystem #biodiversity #ecology #regeneration #humanimpacts #GIS #spatial #mapping #afrotropics #forest #forestfragments #precolonial #sustainability #diversity #native #sociocultural #restoration -
Large precolonial villages in Brazil’s Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture, study finds
A new study offers the clearest picture yet of how Indigenous communities lived in Brazil’s Cerrado before European contact. The findings challenge the long-running idea that people in the region either survived as mobile hunter-gatherers or relied on large-scale maize farming
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/precolonial-villages-in-brazil-practiced-maize-based-polyculture/
Follow @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #precolonial
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I just learned that Dayang Kalangitan actually existed. I have a fictional character named Dayang Kalangitan that I wrote 10 years ago. 😆
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LOL. I didn't know Dayang Kalangitan actually existed. I have a fictional character named Dayang Kalangitan. 😆 #Philippines #PreColonial
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The ancestors of the #Menominee Indian Tribe of #Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States
by Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent
June 10, 2025"Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, #Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and beans in earthen mounds they built on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
"The mounds—created by the ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin—likely represent the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States, according to a study published this month in the journal Science.
"Archaeologists discovered the mounds in May 2023 during the brief window between winter and spring. The winter snow had melted, but the leaves had not yet appeared on the trees. They surveyed 330 acres using a drone equipped with a laser that mapped subtle features on the surface—a remote sensing technique known as lidar.
"The team mapped an area that has cultural and historical importance to the Menominee. Located along the #MenomineeRiver on the #MichiganWisconsin border, this region is known as #AnaemOmot, or the 'Dog’s Belly.'
"The lidar uncovered a quilt-like pattern of parallel ridges that range from four to 12 inches tall. The mounds extend beyond the study area, suggesting the ancestral Menominee agricultural system was ten times larger than previously thought.
"The fact that the mounds still exist is unusual.
" 'Most field systems have been either lost or destroyed due to intensive land use across most of North America, through farming, including pastures and the cutting down of trees for urban development,' says co-author Jesse Casana, an anthropologist at Dartmouth College, in a statement.
"The research gives scientists a 'little window' into what #PreColonial life was like for the ancestral #MenomineePeople, Casana adds.
"During their excavations, the scientists also found several artifacts, including charcoal and fragments of broken ceramics. These discoveries suggest that the area’s Indigenous farmers may have dumped their household waste and the remnants of fires onto their fields, using them as #compost. Samples taken from the mounds suggest the farmers enriched the dirt with soil from nearby wetlands.
"The results indicate that ancestral Menominee people dedicated a lot of time and energy to agriculture in a remote area. The team has not found any significant settlement sites in the region—only a few small villages.
" 'It requires a lot of labor to create these fields, to clear the forest,' says Susan Kooiman, an anthropologist at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville who was not involved with the research, to NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce. 'This is dense forest, now and then. To clear it, only with stone tools, is a lot of labor, a lot of work. … The amount of work, and just how far these fields extend, is beyond anything that I think people suspected was going on this far north in eastern North America.' "
#FirstNations #IndigenousHistory #Menominee #TraditionalFoods #TraditionalFarming
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@Remittancegirl Speaking of not relying on an adulterated government for anything more than that which is dictated by necessity: Imagine what our children – and we – would be like if we spent our days learning from each other, working with neighbors in a cooperative village like #Indigenous peoples of #precolonial, pre-pestilence America. When the New World was treated as the Old World. Sustainable, and unbelievably painful to achieve, requiring a mass change in ethos by some means or other.
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if you're looking for jewelry inspired by pre-colonial filipino motifs made using traditional wax casting techniques, una artesana dropped more items today! these are solid brass pendants (with protective clear coat for sensitive skin), gold filled chains and findings, and natural stones. i got my buwan talisman with the lapis lazuli last year and i wear it everyday. 🌙
link to shop: https://una-artesana.com/collections/talismans
#philippines #precolonial #jewelry #handmade #cebu #supportlocal #tootSEA
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Posted February 2, 2023 by Annella Linton
"Our University of Southern Maine (USM) students and DJ’s are honoring Black History Month at WMPG. This year’s theme is #BlackResistance. You will hear specially curated playlists from DJ’s. Our students are producing audio which will highlight achievements and contributions, including #PreColonial history plus profiles of contemporary figures recognizing people from politics, education, pop culture, sports and other areas. Featuring stories about #ATribeCalledQuest, #Beyonce, #OtisRedding, #JamesBaldwin, #ToniMorrison, #BadBrains, and #RobertLewis."
Link to embedded audio:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-at-wmpg/
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The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy
"The #PreColonial #Indonesian notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through #cooperation, #mutuality, #sharing, #caring, and a readiness to #negotiate and #compromise – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to #Eurocentric understandings of the #subordination of women in #WesternSociety"
by Desi Dwi Prianti
03 Nov 2019"[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the #Dutch #colonisers – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112
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No #collapse, Jared. - #Genome analysis once for all takes wind out of #ecoside narrative's sails that #RapaNui’s population crashed due to #overexploitation, confirming #precolonial contact with #Indigenous Americans:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02962-w by Ewen Callaway via @nature
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#Aboriginal land managers restoring #BassStrait island #lungtalanana to #precolonial conditions facing big hurdles
"Until we get rid of the cats, we cannot put other smaller, more vulnerable species back out on that island"
By Georgia Hogge
Posted Tue 4 Jun 2024"In short: A native rewilding project on the #Tasmanian Bass Strait island of lungtalanana, or #ClarkeIsland, will see #wombats, #wallabies and #potoroos reintroduced to the landscape from next year.
"The island has been managed by #TraditionalOwners as protected land since 2009.
"What's next? #Landcare groups hope to eradicate feral cats from the island and are calling for increased funding from the federal government."
#Funding #Rewilding #WWF #RestoreNature #Restorelungtalanana #TasmanianAboriginalCenter #Tasmania #SolarPunkSunday
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“Canada’s Stonehenge”.
This site is a protected Alberta Heritage Site and is of spiritual significant to our First Native Peoples.
ana!! dret ɬush t’əmanəwas yakwa! (Wow!! Really good spirits here!)
#medicinewheel #stars #indigenous #wow #firstpeople #compass #calendar #precolonial #precolonization #chinook #chinookjargon
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Mutton, an #Indigenous #woolly_dog, died in 1859 − new analysis confirms #precolonial #lineage of this extinct breed, once kept for their wool.
#molecular_anthropology #genomics #mDNA #KRT77 #KANK2 #first_nations
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Boundaries of historical ethnicities before colonization — premodern Africa
Handbook of Tyranny
Theo Deutinger -
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...only the #genocide and the #ecocide the #Russian invaders have been comitting matter.
The #Kremlin terrorists...
are comitting #culturecide, as the #Spanish conquistadores...
did to the #precolonial indigenous population of the #Americas.It is overdue that #culturecide become a #CrimeAgainstHumanity.
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#Geneticists have written new chapters in the #reconstruction of #PreColonial -Americas #history after using #DNA from the #Indigenous #Ashaninka people from #Amazonian #Peru . They've #discovered previously #unexpected levels of #genetic variation in this group & #uncovered a strong hint that these people were involved in South-to-North #migration that led to #transition from #archaic to ceramic #culture in the #Caribbean islands.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230316113957.htm
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How pre-colonial “Filipinos” used numbers. Let's use dates as an example.
Pre-colonial #Tagalog: maikatlong pito sa unang buwan sa taong dalawang libong maikatlong tatlo.
Modern Tagalog: sa ika-dalawampu't pito sa unang buwan sa taong dalawang libo at ika-dalawampu't tatlo.
In #Filipino: ika-dalawampu't pito sa unang buwan sa taong dalawang libo't dalawampu't tatlo.
In #Baybayin (pre-colonial Tagalog): ᜋᜁᜃᜎᜓ ᜉᜒᜆᜓ ᜐ ᜂᜈ ᜊᜓᜏ ᜐ ᜆᜂ ᜇᜎᜏ ᜎᜒᜊᜓ ᜋᜁᜃᜎᜓ ᜆᜎᜓ᜶
In Baybayin with virama (pre-colonial Tagalog): ᜋᜁᜃᜆ᜔ᜎᜓᜅ᜔ ᜉᜒᜆᜓ ᜐ ᜂᜈᜅ᜔ ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔ ᜐ ᜆᜂᜅ᜔ ᜇᜎᜏᜅ᜔ ᜎᜒᜊᜓᜅ᜔ ᜋᜁᜃᜆ᜔ᜎᜓᜅ᜔ ᜆᜆ᜔ᜎᜓ᜶
In English, it translates to: the seventh of the third set [of tens], in the first month of the year two-thousand and the third of the third set [of tens].
In proper English, that is: the 27th of the 1st month, of the year 2000 and 23.
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Based on: https://www.pilipino-express.com/history-a-culture/in-other-words/847-counting-the-old-way.html