@eryops our point is not so much about Greenpeace, good or bad, as the use of #blood red pigment #symbolic of #resistance to #male #dominance. We work on the #science of how old that is in #Homosapiens
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An interesting piece here on difference between human and other species' #cultural complexity, highlighting the aspect of #diversity.
True enough, but this is not dealing with the #symbolic, the shared #imaginary. Humans share their dreams about things that don't exist. Crows, chimps, elephants, whales, they don't.
Try Rainbow Snakes, for instance. Instead of being diverse, they are astoundingly similar around the world. Come and and hear our talk with Ivan Tacey on Tuesday for more on that.
The ConversationHumans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours uniqueAnimals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.
#Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept introduced by #CarlJung, founder of analytical psychology, to describe events that coincide in time and appear meaningfully related, yet lack a discoverable causal connection.
Fight between #Bald_eagle and #CanadaGoose in Burlington bay, 'very #Symbolic,' says #Photographer
#Burlington #Burlington_Ontario #Ontario #Wildlife #WaterFowel #Birds #LakeOntario #Photography #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife_Photography #CanadianNews #CanadianPolitics #TrumpRegime #Tariffs2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/canada-goose-bald-eagle-burlington-bay-brawl-1.7473477
CBCPhotographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC NewsA bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle between the two birds — the goose held its own.
Tough to keep up with #Neanderthal news this year.
I'll be doing a talk on Neanderthals, #Homosapiens and the #symbolic #revolution on Jan 21 @UCLAnthropology(free to all)
livescience.com · 10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factoryThis year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.
This is an interesting idea: that xtian #patriarchal control of #women especially attacked and belittled or shamed use of #cosmetics. This was particularly in the heritage of the #puritans but here the author argues it developed much earlier.
The very word 'cosmetic' in English connotes superficial, shallow, trivial. Yet the classical Greek etymology connects to a notion of beauty underpinning a morally ordered universe -- cosmos, cosmology. This is a concept frequently found in #Indigenous thinking.
Since our #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions theory argues for women's #ritual use of #bodypaint as fundamental to human #symbolic #culture, we think this suppression of body art is a likely pathway to patriarchy. Where women have power and freedom, they use cosmetics and adornment -- especially in solidarity -- to express that.
The Guardian · Medieval Christian misogyny shapes how we judge women today, says scholar
Here's a golden tree of life to start out your week.
You can get it here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/symbolic-tree-of-life-peggy-collins.html
Happy #Solstice! Here's another #tree in my tree of life series. This one comes with golden hearts.
Artwork is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/tree-of-life-with-hearts-peggy-collins.html
Medallion leaf motif carved in stone, mixed media. Did you know that historically, leaf designs symbolize fertility and growth?
Art - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/circular-abstract-deborah-league.html
(“The #results largely supported the #hypotheses , as #hostile #sexism and #symbolic #racism were both #associated with greater #dislike of newer #characters .”
The #researchers #recruited #SelfProfessed #StarWars #fans from various online fan hangouts – subreddits devoted to memes and ships, for example – and sent them #questionnaires about their experience within the #fandom .)
IFLScienceSexist, Racist Abuse Against Star Wars Actors Fueled By Sexism And Racism, Study Reveals
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Most importantly, the authors "view...habitual ochre use as a proxy for the emergence of regular collective rituals". While ochre definitely can have functional uses, ritualised, visual display use appears primary: MSA ochres reflect costly and repetitive behaviours, including long-distance procurement and intentional colour selection.
"The overall dominance of grinding use-wear on archaeological specimens from the MSA indicates the primary production of powder". The authors note red residues produced on shell beads, when these appear later in sites like #Blombos, #Taforalt and now #Bizmoune. This likely results from bodypaint on skin or deliberate colouring.
In sum, they "view a large proportion of ochre finds from the MSA as the material remains of past ritual activity". This builds cogently on the position the #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions team took three decades ago that the ochre marked #ritual activity which was critical to the emergence of #symbolic cognition.
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Image: from the Moroccan MSA at Bizmoune dating for large blocks of ochre accompanying ochre-residued shell beads are now back to 140 thousand years ago.
