#paleo-anthropology

[gay-caveman]

*grabs you by your chest hair* you WILL look at memes about my special interest

[manly-plant]

jessie….. jessie….. we need to survive the Pleistocene…

[jtem]

Science is gone. It's all gone, replaced by Dogma.

There's nothing "Kooky" about Aquatic Ape theory. In fact, the mainstream has adopted it. You may have noticed yourself that humans managed to spread onto all six inhabitable continents starting long, Long, LONG before anyone got around to inventing anything more complicated than a dugout canoe. And, the mainstream has long accepted that they did this following the coast.

Wait. "Following the coast" is only part of it. Nobody believes that they carried an African savanna on their backs, not even the status quo. Nobody believes there were an abundance of fast food restaurants for them to stop at. Nope. So when everyone agrees that they were following the coast, what they mean is that they were exploiting marine resources in order to sustain themselves. After all, everyone's got to eat, right? So if they were on the coast they had to be finding food on that coast..marine resources..Aquatic Ape.

"Coastal Dispersal"

Our ancestors spread across the globe -- they "Dispersed" -- along water's edge. They dispersed along the coast..

"Coastal Dispersal."

That's what it is called: Coastal dispersal. Even the mainstream accepts coastal dispersal and coastal dispersal *Is* Aquatic Ape Theory. Coastal dispersal posits that they lived waterside, they survived by exploiting marine resources. Modern day "Aquatic Ape" theory simply takes this further. It uses this fact which we all agree on to explain observations, data, and to posit a model for human evolution. "Aquatic Ape" takes something we all agree on and builds from there. That's all Aquatic Ape does.

There's more to it. The human brain is dependent upon DHA, an Omega-3, which we never even evolved a means to better synthesize ourselves until long after so called "Modern Humans" were on the scene!

I am *So* not a fan of molecular dating (it exaggerates age) and I hate DNA evidence because none of us can see it. We have to accept the word of whoever it is "Reporting" this evidence to us. But, there is supposed to be a human adaptation, an evolved ability to better synthesize DHA and according to the those who say they found it, it dates to about 80k years ago. Compare this to the usual dates for the evolution of so called "Modern" humans, which is 200,000 to 300,000 years!

What am I saying? I'm saying that humans, our big brains required a diet rich in DHA in order for us to have evolved big brains in the first place, and the only environment that could provide such a diet was and is the water. DHA is abundant in seafood, it's not on dry land.

So Aquatic Ape Theory takes *Two* things that everyone agrees on -- Coastal Dispersal & the necessity of a DHA rich environment -- and build from there. Kooky? Not in the least. But it does dare to question the status quo.

This is how the status quo reacts towards dissension:

[ghelgheli]

the problem with imputing label-based "division of labour" onto archaeological evidence is that the presentist will confuse correlation between perceived labels (e.g. what they may call "sex") and inferred occupation with a causal relationship whereby the latter was somehow decided on the basis of the former. but there will not even be any decisive evidence that the label they assigned today existed at all then.

[mhaccunoval]

life IS about the little joys, like flooring people with your choice of ambitions

[xinezine-blog]

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[paleopinesofficial]

Hi! I’m the freshmen in college studying for my geoscience & Anthropology major, I made it through my freshman year! Paleo pines helped me study in some parts of a few of my classes! Also great relaxer while I waited for test scores! Can’t wait to keep playing and see what new dinosaur/color Paleo Pines is getting!

This is SO lovely!! Congratulations!!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Your tag #anthrocentricism made me realize that a big reason I don't get it is that I study anthropology lol, like my thoughts tend to shift towards "but humans aren't gorillas just because they share common ancestors" and I should think, "WHY do I feel like the dinosaurs/birds thing has to be similar to humans/gorillas? I don't study dinosaurs/birds I wouldn't know". And what frustrated me was that the people who'd correct me with "they're not extinct birds are dinosaurs" ALSO didn't know the details, just that one fact by itself, so I couldn't get a better understanding from it I just got frustrated. But it makes a lot of sense that it's important to specify that so it becomes more common knowledge and we collectively have a more updated and accurate scientific world view !!! So thank you for explaining. I'm new to your blog, do you have a tag or a post that explains more in depth ? Im a big fan of dinosaurs but have never learned about them at an academic level :)

yeah the difference between gorillas and humans vs birds and dinosaurs is that dinosaur is a much bigger category

so saying "birds are dinosaurs" is much more like saying "humans are apes" or "humans are mammals"

the gorilla human thing would be more like saying "all birds are velociraptors" - they share a recent common ancestor, but no, birds are not in the velociraptor group

and I'm very happy to explain, this is my job after all :')

for more in depth stuff, just go through my "birds are dinosaurs" tag. if you want to see how the dividing line between the two is just a myth, then go to "bird political spectrum"

but there's also tons of this on wikipedia, surprisingly enough. I think it's cause dino nerds love wikipedia (I'm friends with multiple editors for the dino pages. and like, that's just cause the dino paleo world is tiny.)

and honestly, we SHOULD learn about dinosaurs on an academic level. a "History of Life" class should be something students have MULTIPLE times throughout their education, because that is so important for understanding the world and how it works >_< I'm not bitter at all, noooo.

[transmutationisms]

hii, do you have any reading recs for where to start in terms of the history of medicine? thank you so much and i adore reading your succession analysis

if you're new to this subfield i would recommend starting out by just thumbing through the cambridge history of medicine (2006, ed. roy porter). you don't have to read every word in here, but definitely the introduction and any chapters that look particularly relevant to your interests. there are also some medical chapters scattered throughout the cambridge history of science volumes. cambridge volumes are often limited to europe and north america, and they're generally not methodologically daring, so you don't want to get stuck on them forever. but as a starting point, they can help you start to recognise a few influential names in the field, and give you a sense of what the history of medicine 'canon' is & draws from.

after that you can start to get more specific. history of medicine is a bit of a misnomer field in that it contains a few distinct-but-overlapping subject areas: histories of diseases themselves (this will cross into history of biology, paleo-virology, molecular archaeology, genetics, &c); histories of sickness (often drawing from affect theory, disability studies, and history of emotions); histories of medical practice and practitioners (philosophy of health and medicine, labour history, studies of class and discipline formation, military history); histories of public health (broader population thinking, archaeology and anthropology, history of hygiene, history of state formation and biopolitics); histories of medical devices and instruments (history of technology, material history, economic and industrial history). you'll also serve yourself well if you have some sense of specific time periods and places you're interested in—not that i'm telling you to be close-minded, but it just helps if you have some idea of what you're looking for.

you are more than welcome to come back and ask about a more specific sub-topic :-) since you've basically given me free reign, i'll just toss out a few histmed books i've particularly enjoyed, in no particular order:

medicalizing blackness: making racial difference in the atlantic world, 1780–1840, by rana hogarth (2017)

the expressiveness of the body and the divergence of greek and chinese medicine, by shigehisa kuriyama (1999)

doctoring traditions: ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences, by projit mukharji (2016)

plague and empire in the early modern mediterranean world: the ottoman experience, 1347–1600, by nukhet varlık (2015)

killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty, by dorothy roberts (1997)

hearing happiness: deafness cures in history, by jaipreet virdi (2020)

pasteur's empire: bacteriology and politics in france, its colonies, and the world, by aro velmet (2020)

contagion: disease, government, and the 'social question' in nineteenth-century france, by andrew aisenberg (1999)

colonial madness: psychiatry in french north africa, by richard keller (2007)

curing the colonizers: hydrotherapy, climatology, and french colonial spas, by eric t jennings (2006)

ideals of the body: architecture, urbanism, and hygiene in postrevolutionary paris, by sun-young park (2018)

[griancraft]

I might go mass unfollow accounts so my dash is my mutuals, Paleo/anthropology content, and hermitcraft but there are 5k of them and tumblr doesn't make u following mass amounts of people very easy so. Grumbles

[synapsid-taxonomy]

Why did we survive when all the other species of humans went extinct? Recent paleo-anthropological finds make it seem like we weren't all that more advanced than them.

I’d bet that the key is cultural versatility. H. sapiens can survive in many more environments than H. neanderthalensis, H. erectus, H. floresiensis, and the Denisovans did. We’re good at changing our behavior to fit our surroundings, at developing and sharing technologies and practices to help us survive somewhere new. That would have contributed to our numbers growing to surpass those of other human species (genetics suggest that Neanderthal populations were relatively small, and we only have a handful of Denisovan fossils), and to us being able to survive environmental shifts (not just climate change but also changes in food availability like megafaunal extinctions) that may have done in other human species. Disease, violent conflict, technological differences, and merging populations have also been suggested as factors in how other human species disappear shortly after H. sapiens arrives on the scene, and I’d bet the exact reasons would have varied situation by situation.

[cryptidatlas411]

Hey y'all! I've realized that I never did any type of intro post, so here it is!

My name is Atlas! I use He/Him pronouns. I'm Seventeen as of May, and I'm from Nebraska. I create writing and occasionally art content as well as whatever else comes to mind. This blog is where I am at my most unhinged, but I've got a tiktok and an instagram under the same username as well if you are interested in seeing more of my art!

My current fandoms/ special interests are as follows: Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, and Greek Mythology(and just mythology in general tbh), What We Do In The Shadows, Interveiw with the Vampire, and Doctor Who

I enjoy Steven Universe, Bee and Puppycat, space, paleo-anthropology(early hominids are my jam!), evolutionary bioligy, convergent evolution, marine biology(marine mammals and cartilagenous fish are my faves), clouds, foggy mornings(or just fog in general tbh), and the fall/spooky season!

I dislike bigots, capitalism, tacos, lavender, bananas, complete darkness, jumpscares, extreme gore....

Some fun facts about me are:

• My favorite animals are rays(manta rays and devil rays especially!)

• I have a really low spice tolerance(thanks to my sister for making me put this one)

•I love matcha

•My favorite colour is a sort of muted olive green

•My favorite foods are Gyros, Sushi, and Chiken Parmesan

•My favorite musical is Hadestown

●My favorite movies are Lisa Frankenstein and Howls Moving Castle

•from my younger sister: "you listen to hozier like you're super religious and hozier is your gospel"

•from my father: "Atlas doesn't beleive in the term 'played out', he listens to the same songs over and over."

•My favorite books of all time are The Underneath(Kathi Appelt), The Song of Achilles and Circe(Madeline Miller), and Clytemnestra (Costanza Casati)

•I love long car rides(road trips, yippee!)

•I know how to do a lot of thing decenly well- paint(watercolour, oils, gouache) (technically acrylics, but i dislike acrylics), draw(digital and traditional), embroider, ride horses, write, sew, act.....

•I dye my hair different colours all the time! The current colour is: Red

•I have dyslexia and adhd, so don't be shocked by my dreadful spelling. I try to fix it when I see it, but I'll undoubtedly miss something.

That's all i can think of for now! If anyone has any questions about me or anything I've posted, feel free to drop an ask, and I will most likely answer if I am comfortable doing so!

This post will be added to and edited, so when things change, don't be surprised.

[fishybehavior]

Hi guys, could I interest u in a survey that I have to do for my science class?

It would be a real help if a couple of y'all would take a few minutes to fill out this quick survey. It's only 6 questions.

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

dearest Demo enjoyer,

I think Demo has an Anthropology degree

that is all

SOOOO TRUE I love (paleo)anthropology so. he can talk to ME about it <3<3<3

[nobleelfwarrior]

I’m thinking about getting a bunch of sticky notes and marking the books at the library.

There’s a book called “fossil men” which bothers me because in recent years and over the course of paleo anthropology, many skeletal and fossil discoveries were female. You are probably most familiar with Lucy, but the first example of homo naledi found in south Africa was female. The oldest human remains in the americas was a female found in some underwater caves in Mexico.

I’ll admit I haven’t read the book, so I would expect that the author does include these female examples and unsexed examples because all we have is a miscellaneous bone to type the species. However, his title brings to mind cave men, not humans and especially not women and children.

This title just bothers me because calling it “fossil humans” would have had the same mystical effect and instead the author had some implicit bias and kicked out women. On that book I would mention some of those important fossil discoveries.

There are a lot of books about Amish romance which always is so disturbing to me given the high rates of incestuous rape that fathers and brothers inflict on the daughters and sisters.

Making note on the copy of Steven king’s books about his creepiness, especially if I can get the specifics about that book.

Putting notes on dvds or cds about plot or content or artists that are offensive to feminist values.

Using sticky notes means that it’s not permanent and is easily replaceable so it’s not like you’re defacing public property and you can hide the sticky notes inside, too, so they don’t get removed until a patron checks them out.

It doesn’t feel like a lot, but that’s what I need right now. My mental health is on thin ice, so I can’t make big commitments, but I can get some sticky notes and write on them.

@radblrthemeweeks

[paleopinesofficial]

I got a paleo pines hoodie for my birthday, it means so much to have this because I’m trying to go into paleontology. I’m in my freshman year at college for Geoscience and Anthropology, and I’ve been playing Paleo pines so much in my free time. Paleontology has been a dream of mine forever and I love seeing more and more people who also love paleo related things. Please give all the devs, concept artists, everyone on your team a big thank you from me and my favorite dimetrodon Marshmallow!

This was SUCH a lovely message to read! Thank you so much for playing Paleo Pines, and all the best in your degree!

And now you, Marshmallow, thank YOU for being one of the TOP named Dimetrodon's I've ever heard of. Magic.