December 2011
84 posts
Sex with Neanderthals Made Us (white people)... →
soydulcedeleche:
vampirefinch:
soydulcedeleche:
lol you know they were gonna make up some superiority claims once they found out only blacks are pure human. white supremacists, why you so predictable?
Made them strong, huh? Then why’d they need all those weak, pure-human blacks from Africa to do their back-breaking world in the New World?
Yeah, what the fuck ever.
precisely. they flip...
A Travel Guide to Prehistoric Places in North... →
oldowan:
Want to vacation like a scientific explorer would? We’ve put together the ultimate travel guide for people who want to journey back to the earliest ages of the Earth. This guide to North American prehistory will take you to valleys full of fossils, mountains carved by ice ages, and petrified forests that are millions of years old.
Soy Dulce de Leche: no, but srsly, when will women... →
soydulcedeleche:
no, but srsly, when will women learn that tryina police what other women wear and do with their bodies in the name of so-called dignity and respect, you are just displaying your internalized mysoginy and approval of slut-shaming and rape culture?
everytime you put the onus on women to fend off…
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and...”
– Robert Frost (via saddest-summer)
men!!!
(via soydulcedeleche) :B
Skeletons point to Columbus voyage for syphilis... →
oldowan:
Skeletons don’t lie. But sometimes they may mislead, as in the case of bones that reputedly showed evidence of syphilis in Europe and other parts of the Old World before Christopher Columbus made his historic voyage in 1492.
None of this skeletal evidence, including 54 published reports, holds up when subjected to standardized analyses for both diagnosis and dating, according to an...
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Women of Cairo Protest →
Thousands of women protested in the streets of Cairo on Tuesday against the harrassment of Egyptian women by the military and called to end military rule in Egypt.
”In the most famous of those, a half dozen soldiers beating a woman with batons rip away her abaya to reveal her blue bra before one plants his boot on her chest[…] In the days since the picture of the demonstrator in the...
We are just a million little gods: One teachers... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
Archaeological News: An ancient one comes home one... →
archaeologicalnews:
The women solemnly preparing the remains for burial Monday did not know the name of the person whom they served, but it did not matter. They considered the remains to belong to a grandmother, and she was home among her family. Inside a lodge next to a sacred fire, a team from the Ziibiwing…
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Human skull study causes evolutionary headache →
oldowan:
Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.
Researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Barcelona examined 390 skulls from the Austrian town of Hallstatt and found evidence that the human skull is highly...
Emek Shaveh - Archaeology in Jerusalem →
aarsbog:
Archaeology in the Shadow of the Conflict - Between Holiness and Propaganda
The state of Israel has conducted more thorough archaeological excavations in the Old City than were ever attempted by any other government or organization. Despite this, archaeological activity continues to provide a central pillar in its plans to strengthen its political grip on the Old City. Archaeological...
Body Hair Protects Us Against Fleas And Bed Bugs →
scinewscom:
British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas.
http://www.sci-news.com/anthropology/body-hair-protects-us-against-fleas-and-bed-bugs
An incredibly generous young woman bought me a christmas gift while I was at the mall. Then she wished me a “merry christmas” and I wished her one back. Now if only all the “put the Christ in christmas” curmudgeons would stop complaining and actually go out and do something nice for someone else in the spirit of the season. I’m incredibly thankful to this woman. She...
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ॐ: STREET HARASSMENT =/= COMPLIMENTS →
face-down-asgard-up:
dannythevinyl:
piddlebucket:
dannythevinyl:
piddlebucket:
AND THEY ARE SURELY NOT SOMETHING I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR.
Everything’s relative
See, this is kinda what I mean. You’re not really evaluating the context of what Im trying…
Trigger Warning: Image of Abuse
f-a-n-c-y-l-i-f-e:
A 14 year old boy got beaten half dead by his stepfather. His only fault was this that he tried to protect his little sister from being raped. Now he’s struggling for his life, but doctors say he won’t make it without a surgery. His mother doesn’t have money to pay it. tumblr donates 45 cents for every sharing or reposting.
Please Verify, Don’t Ignore thinking It thinking...
U.K. toy store stops gender labeling of toys →
Anonymous asked: That last picture of the boy with the lacerations... do you mind adding a trigger warning? I have PTSD, and even with that I think it would be triggering to a lot of people in general. It would be really beneficial to us and others who may suffer flashbacks and panic attacks, as we can use discretion before scrolling down on the dashboard...
The Living Wiccan: Correspondences of Yule →
christowitch:
Activities of Yule:
Burning the Yule log
Caroling
Decorating the Yule tree
Exchanging of presents
Honoring Kriss Kringle the Germanic Pagan God of Yule
Kissing under the mistletoe
Wassailing the trees,
Symbolism of Yule:
Rebirth of the Sun
Planning for the Future
There was no Kriss Kringle in the Germanic pantheons.
I need an STP in my life, stat.
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Archaeological News: Solving the Mystery of a... →
archaeologicalnews:
Archaeologists have discovered previously unknown fragments of a figurine known as the “Lion Man,” and are piecing it back together. Could the 35,000-year-old statue actually represent a female shaman? Scientists hope to resolve a decades-long debate.
Using a hand hoe and working in dim…
Not feeling this one, guys. I’d like to see some actual sources for this...
I'm Pretty Sure People See An Anti-Feminism Post &...
ernestsewell:
…without ever reading my post.
PS I have no idea what a ‘cis’, and pretty sure I couldn’t care less.
Well aren’t you just one enlightened motherfucker. So enlightened you damn near blinded me.
“In the same way a woman of colour can’t divvy up her oppressions, neither can a...”
– Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism on the intersection of oppressions (via livinglikeitsgolden) I usually enjoy Jessica Valenti but I don’t quite agree with this. I also feel like Valenti is oblivious to some of her privileges here as a white person. I wonder if she knows that women who...
ॐ: On Being 'Friend-Zoned': →
paenulae:
thiscuntsays:
unitedstatesofmeryl:
Tonight, I was friend-zoned.
Except here’s the thing:
IT’S NOT A THING.
The Friend Zone is a concept, not a reality. It’s a state of mind. It’s some bullshit entitlement bullshit (ugly cousin of The Nice Guy, perhaps?) that I’ve…
Yupp.
World's Oldest Bedding Discovered in Cave →
quidquid:
“The oldest known bedding — sleeping mats made of mosquito-repellant evergreens that are about 77,000 years old — has been discovered in a South African cave.
An international team of archaeologists discovered the stack of ancient beds at Sibudu, a cave in a sandstone cliff in South Africa. They consist of compacted stems and leaves of sedges, rushes and grasses stacked in at least...
Random Kindness Ebb and Flow →
Even people that don’t know us, never knew us and live thousands of kilometres away are thinking about my brother and sister.
My boys skipped a few stones and picked some rocks to paint. I explained the reasons for us being at the lake painting our beautiful stones. I told them that we may not know Sarah and Zach, but that I know they can feel the love from family, friends and even strangers...
therapsida: pogromnacht submitted →
therapsida:
pogromnacht:
To be honest, I get what you’re doing, but I still think it’s unethical and I’m kinda disappointed.
Yes, queers were targets of the Nazis, and no you don’t agree with their ideology, but that doesn’t make you entitled to “reclaim it”. Yknow? None of your family was killed. You don’t have that connection or trauma specifically connected to the Holocaust. It’s one...
The Child Artists Of Prehistory. →
thee-a-word:
I thought this was pretty incredible:
Archaeologists Jessica Cooney, of Cambridge University in England, and Leslie Van Gelder, of Walden University in the United States, have revealed that children as young as three made “finger flutings” marks on the walls of Rouffignac Cave in the Dordogne region of France. The art is about 13,000 years old.
Finger flutings are simpler...
