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Archaeologists can excavate a sunken ship in Denmark and determine that it was built in Ireland. Analysis of ancient DNA can make reliable sex determinations of the dead, tease out their family relationships, and even reveal the colour of their eyes and hair; it also makes possible the wider tracking of migrations and larger demographic change.
Neil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY - Discoveries in the Public Domain
youtube.comI had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans 70... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comHistory written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
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