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The world we live in today is not just the one created by the likes of Tiberius of Rome, or even Emperor Wu of Han. Until surprisingly recent times, spaces of human freedom existed across large parts of our planet. Millions lived in them. We don’t know their names, as they didn’t carve them in stone, but we know that many lived lives in which one c... See more
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
Right now, scientists are excavating a Homo erectus village, about 750,000 years old, in Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in modern-day Israel. And we find that this village is organized hierarchically
TEDx Talks • How Language Began | Dan Everett | TEDxSanFrancisco
David Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
youtube.comAt Wetwang Slack, careful digging and dating allowed the sequence of burials in the cemetery to be disentangled. Clusters formed around primary interments – typically, an older woman buried with beads would be the ‘founder figure’ – her grave forming a focus for subsequent burials of more women, with or without beads. Those gendered clusters also m
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Post Cards from America: X-rays from Hell
A personal narrative reflecting on life, death, and the AIDS crisis, exploring fear, societal indifference, the struggle for representation, and the urgency of public acknowledgment of grief and mortality.
artistsspace.orgThe Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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