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#african

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Seth Chagi

More than one #hominin used to traverse the ancient #African landscape. Sometimes, more likely more often than we would have ever thought, these species may have interacted, even seen each other! Learn more about hominin #footprints discovered near #Turkana with Dr. Kevin Hatala youtu.be/vX-b4L3cxW0

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Radical Anthropology

Fantastic preprint from Cecilia #PadillaIglesias and colleagues, analysing difference of mobility between the sexes among 700 #BaYaka #huntergatherers

This is some of the best data on prevalence of #matrilocality in #African hunter-gatherers, that is women living with Mum.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

bioRxiv · Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial rangesMobility lies at the adaptive core of the hunter-gatherer foraging niche, and has shaped the cultural and genetic evolution of our species. Yet, the specific drivers and consequences of mobility are still debated. Here we analyse the lifetime mobility patterns of 776 Mbendjele BaYaka hunter-gatherers from five regions in the northern Republic of Congo, revealing pronounced gender differences in spatial behaviour. While men expand their spatial ranges from adolescence to adulthood, women's anges remain stable. We find evidence for a sexual division of labour underpinning these patterns, with men's greater mobility driven by subsistence activities such as hunting or exploratory trips away from camps, and women's mobility mostly driven by gathering closer to their residential location. Our findings challenge traditional assumptions of patrilocality, suggesting that men travel further due to their spatial separation from kin. Larger spatial ranges are associated with increased reproductive success for both genders, suggesting adaptive benefits of mobility in accessing resources, social networks, and potential mates. By linking individual behaviors to broader movement dynamics, our study deepens our understanding of gendered mobility in humans and highlights its significance to social structuring in our species and its evolutionary consequences. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv

🎶🎵🎼🤗💃🏿🕺🏿💃🏼🕺🏼🙌🌐🌏💝💁🏿‍♀️*Awesome Praise!*Definitely worth checking out!🤗💟🌐🌏❤️💁🏼‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE CHRIST JESUS LIVES WE HAVE GREAT HOPE!*AMEN!🤗❤️💝🌐🌏❤️💁🏿‍♀️*Hallelujah!🤗💝🌿👑💦💒❤️‍🔥✝️🔥🤍🌐💜🕊️🍷🥐🌼🌺🌸🌷💠🛐🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏💞🌏💞💫🙌🤲💟💝🌿👑💦💒🕺🏿💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏿🌐🌏🤍💁‍♀️*SATURDAY(HOLY SATURDAY) THANK YOU CHRIST JESUS GOOD MORNING MUSIC SHARE!🤗💟❤️💝🌿👑💦💒❤️‍🔥✝️🔥🤍🌐💜🕊️🍷🤗🎼🎵🎶👉
#music #Saturday #HolySaturday #Good #Morning #Share #Thank #You #Christ #Jesus

BEST AFRICAN PRAISE MEDLEY BY TOBI JEFF RICHARDS #youtube #african #pr... youtube.com/watch?v=pyrgqLSB_7

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Radical Anthropology

Here is Mary 'giving'/Jesus 'stealing' the #blood power. She was the woman free of the 'Curse of Eve', all the reproductive labours of womankind. In other words, she's bloodless.

For #African hunter-gatherers, that means she would not use cosmetics for beauty, joy ceremony and ornament, the colour 🔴 of ochre or Pterocarpus paint which is used in their rituals. She does not belong to #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions (she's allied to her son vs the women with the curse). These are the secret ritual mechanics of patriarchy.

Mary touching the sacred wound, from The Dead Christ and the Virgin Giotto di Bondone (1266/1267–1337) (Neapolitan follower of) The National Gallery, London
#therealthief
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Radical Anthropology

#Easter, celebrating #rabbits in time with the #Moon, is undoubtedly our favourite! The stories of the Moon and Hare/rabbit are widespread across click-speaking Southern #African language groups.

These are very very old tales about the 'Origins of Death', telling of a shift from cyclical dying and coming back to life to a linear death for good. The bunny -- in the role of #menarcheal initiate -- gets the blame (but fights back!).

This 'menstruating male' upstart steals these powers of death and resurrection (in fact he steals the menstrual powers from his mum, Mary, who is the woman with no blood). Bushman peoples who have been taught about xtianity are quite well aware this Jesus is a trickster.

Here is the famed image of Jesus' #menstrual wound, shaped just like a bleeding cunt, spilling the secrets. We need to steal these secrets back! That's the 🐇 fightback!

'Sacred' wound shaped like a bleeding cunt Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349
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