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Children of the Ice Age

A depiction of 4 Ice Age children dressed in skins and furs. One of the taller ones wears a mask and what looks like a bearskin and headpiece, while the other older child carries a wooden spear. In the background, the huge, bleached skull bone and tusk of a giant animal.Image via Aeon Magazine

"For more than 200 years, children have been neglected by archaeologists. It was part of a disciplinary bias towards adult men in archaeological interpretations. This began to change in the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of feminist archaeology and the archaeology of gender..." cgc373 posted Aeon Magazine's article by April Nowell.

02/26/23
by taz

Not So Paleo, Actually

Wild grainWild grain by ibm4381 (cc by)

clew's post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that "shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat."

08/14/21
by taz

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