Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) III
Category: Falsehoods
This is the third of three parts of this particular falsehood. (Here is the previous part)...
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Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I
Category: Falsehoods
I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone
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Explaining the Spread of Agriculture into Europe
Category: Archaeology
The practice of growing food and keeping livestock was invented numerous times throughout the world. One 'center' of agriculture is said to be the Middle East. Despite the fact that calling the Middle East a "center" in this context is a gross oversimplification, it is...
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Reading Human Nature
Category: Anthropology
A short list of foundational readings in ethnography for the Evolutionary Anthropologist.
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Unhealthy Diet in Ancient Near East
Category: Origin of Agriculture
This is an old story being resurrected wiht new data: Biblical diet 'unhealthy' A new study into the diet of ancient Israel has revealed that far from being 'the land of milk and honey', its inhabitants suffered from the lack of a balanced diet....
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The Fantastic Mystery of the Younger Dryas
Category: Anthropology
One of the most interesting and exciting stories in science is that of the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas was a climate event that had important effects on human history, and that has been reasonably linked to some of our most important cultural changes, and...
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When the corn weevil knocks, we are all doomed.
Maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais [usda] ... or the corn rust or the corn root cutter or whatever pathogen that comes along that cannot be fought off with a cleverly concocted combination of chemicals. This is because all we eat is corn, or so it...
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Research on The Origins of Maize (Corn)
Corn (maize) was domesticated in the earlier part of the Holocene in Mexico from a wild plant called teosinte. Subsequent to the discovery of this area of origin by MacNeish, a great deal of research has gone on to track the spread of maize across...
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Cultural Evolution from Mosquitos to Worm Grunting
A very good day of grunting worms. Credit: Ken Catania So-called Gene-Culture Co-Evolution can be very obvious and direct or it can be very subtle and complex. In almost all cases, the details defy the usual presumptions people make about the utility of culture,...
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The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults?
Are certain ancient artifacts from West Asia evidence of the earliest horticulture related fertility rituals, and belief in the Evil Eye?
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