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Very interesting model for historic populations reaching back 74,000 years -- that is before ancestors of everyone today began moving out of Africa. This factors in risk as contributing to movements and success of populations. Even that long ago, even with .

"Our results show that humans strongly avoided or were unsuccessful in potential malaria hotspots. The effects of these choices shaped human demography for the last 74 kya, and likely much earlier, by fragmenting human societies over time and contributing to the formation of modern population structure."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657870v1

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, celebrating in time with the , is undoubtedly our favourite! The stories of the Moon and Hare/rabbit are widespread across click-speaking Southern language groups.

These are very very old tales about the 'Origins of Death', telling of a shift from cyclical dying and coming back to life to a linear death for good. The bunny -- in the role of initiate -- gets the blame (but fights back!).

This 'menstruating male' upstart steals these powers of death and resurrection (in fact he steals the menstrual powers from his mum, Mary, who is the woman with no blood). Bushman peoples who have been taught about xtianity are quite well aware this Jesus is a trickster.

Here is the famed image of Jesus' wound, shaped just like a bleeding cunt, spilling the secrets. We need to steal these secrets …

'Sacred' wound shaped like a bleeding cunt Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349
'Sacred' wound shaped like a bleeding cunt Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349
'Sacred' wound shaped like a bleeding cunt Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349
'Sacred' wound shaped like a bleeding cunt Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349

Being a potter means drawing from a vocabulary of tried-and-true forms: mugs, teapots, bowls, pitchers, etc. However, these archetypal forms have European & Asian origins.

I thought it would be interesting to everyone & affirming to other Black ceramicists to reference forms in contemporary tableware. The combining of European, Asian and African ceramics traditions goes back to mid-20th century, but that history is omitted from US education. See for details.

A small jug with a spout, made to reference the iconic form of Nupe storage vessels from Nigeria. The jug is spherical and voluminous at the bottom, narrow at the neck and flares out into a cup shape at the top. It is heavily decorated with carved geometric patterns, painted with orange clay slip from Tennessee, variegated brown clay slip from Lake Ontario and bright chartreuse green glazed accents.
A large storage vessels from the Nupe culture of Nigeria, 20th century. It is dark brown and mostly unglazed except for a few bands of shiny, vitrified slip that have flaked off over the years. It has the same proportions referenced in the piece Osa made, with similar carved geometric patterning. This vessel however does not include a spout and is too large to lift and pour. It was probably mainly used for storage of liquids, grains, seeds, etc.

If these guys displayed such obnoxious behaviour in a civilized society, they would be taken down mercilessly with and merriment -- almost always by older .

If they continued to throw their weight about with obnoxious behaviour, they would be taken OUT. Certainly in the Kalahari that could be done by a child with a poisoned arrow. Most likely by a bunch of hunters doing it together.

But if these guys had grown up in such a society, it's extremely unlikely they'd behave like such assholes. For tens and hundreds of thousands of years, women simply selected against obnoxious male dominance.

It is only a recent historic aberration in the life of our species, and most normal human beings know it.

Will Africa join the ?

> The Fediverse could be especially impactful in the continent, where users would benefit from greater agency to create digital communities and networks that more accurately and democratically reflect their diverse cultures, languages and interests.

Paper/report by: Andrew Rens, Hanani Hlomani, Jamie Fuller, Abdiaziz Abdikadir Ahmed, June 6, 2024

https://researchictafrica.net/research/will-africa-join-the-fediverse/

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Cooperative women's labour networks (Kraft et al show more extensive female networks than forager/horticulturlists) and gift exchange (Wiessner, Apicella)

Women's leisure time (Dyble et al, Agta women foragers have more than those who have settled as )

And last but not least is the influence of , and on 's solidarity and power (Lewis, Finnegan, Kisliuk, Grauer, Bombjakova, England)

writes beautifully here on the of women among Central peoples, and the incredibly rude words they sing to men!

https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12060

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An earlier review of 2022 studies on life. Social structure according to looks like with moving out of groups.

We are close to 💯 per cent certain that did the exact opposite -- daughters stayed with their mums, and sons-in-law came into the group to do . We are so sure here because it's what do. As a result, our lineage flourishes (thanks to grandmothers), Neanderthals dwindled (lack of grandmothers?) and numerous Neanderthal women could have moved into the incoming African origin groups.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2822%2901755-9