Tag: primitive people
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Ancient pottery. Cooking. Dead men.
A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. The method means prehistoric pottery can be dated with remarkable accuracy, sometimes to the window of a human life span. Pottery found in Shoreditch, London proven to be 5,500 years old and shows the…
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Hunting. Drawing. Being in oblivion. Doing art.
Visual imagery used in drawing regulates arm movements in manner similar to how hunters visualize the arc of a spear. Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools but never demonstrated the ability to draw recognizable images, unlike early modern humans who created vivid renderings of animals and other figures on rocks and cave walls.…
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Mental disease as a blessing. [OR: How healers are born]
In the shamanic view, mental illness signals "the birth of a healer", explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. 'What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as “good news from…
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Hoopa, lost artifacts, modern nihilism...
As High Country News describes it, the Hoopa Tribal Museum is more like a borrowing library than a display museum. If you're a member of the northern California tribe, you can check out the museum's artifacts to use in ceremonies. Pretty cool. There's one strange catch, however. Some of the artifacts are poisoned, literally. Museum…
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Ceramic, hi-tech materials, the essence of progress...
Ceramic is more hi-tech than we imagine. Its technology could be used for spacecrafts in the future with much better results than the current "advanced" materials we now have. (1) What we consider "advanced" is not. What we consider "old" we will some day call it "new" again. Any progress moves us away from where…
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