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A fire in Bronze Age Spain ~1450 BC destroyed a settlement — and accidentally preserved something almost never found: the actual wooden frame of a loom, still loaded with weights. New study in Antiquity reconstructs it. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #TextileHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bronze-age-loom-preserved-by-fire
Soil temp, not just rainfall, may have driven the shifting geography of millet farming in Neolithic East Asia. A 3°C mid-Holocene cooling compressed cultivation zones and pushed farming southward. #Neolithic #Archaeobotany #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ground-went-cold-soil-temperature
A new study drilled 26 sediment cores beneath an ancient Sudanese capital and found 12,500 years of Nile history. The geology explains why Napata, heart of the Kushite empire, lasted over a millennium. #Archaeology #AncientNubia #Kush https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-nile-built-at-jebel-barkal
New research overturns the myth of perfectly equal hunter-gatherers. Even the most “egalitarian” societies navigate inequality using subtle political tools that protect autonomy. Equality, it turns out, is hard-won. #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Foragers #Inequality https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-equality-has-edges-rethinking
