Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺)
@sethchagi.bsky.social
Fighting for #Science and #STEM!
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Father, Husband, Stoic, Animist, Paleoanthropologist, STEAM, Science Communicator, Book Lover, FUCK TRUMP!
Follow for news and content surrounding #HumanOrigins, #RockArt!
Links - https://linktr.ee/worldofpaleoanthro
Father, Husband, Stoic, Animist, Paleoanthropologist, STEAM, Science Communicator, Book Lover, FUCK TRUMP!
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#Neanderthal November preview: Skhul ‘hybrid?’ debate; Krapina pigments (Croatia); and the Micoquian–art connection via curated pigment tools. New Paleo Post Podcast soon. #PaleoPostPodcast #NeanderthalNovember
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Neanderthal November preview: Skhul ‘hybrid?’ debate; Krapina pigments (Croatia); and the Micoquian–art connection via curated pigment tools. New Paleo Post Podcast soon. #PaleoPostPodcast #NeanderthalNovember
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And now the amazing Dr. Sara Garces as a co-advisor!
Neanderthal Symbolic Behavior here I come!
Neanderthal Symbolic Behavior here I come!
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And now the amazing Dr. Sara Garces as a co-advisor!
Neanderthal Symbolic Behavior here I come!
Neanderthal Symbolic Behavior here I come!
Bruniquel Cave, France (~176 ka): 400+ broken stalagmites stacked into two ring-like structures with fire traces—deep-cave construction by early Neanderthals. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Bruniquel
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Bruniquel Cave, France (~176 ka): 400+ broken stalagmites stacked into two ring-like structures with fire traces—deep-cave construction by early Neanderthals. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Bruniquel
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
And with that; I have a MA Thesis Advisor! And it's none other than my amazing Podcast Co-Host, the wonderful Dr. George Nash! I am so excited! lets do this!
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And with that; I have a MA Thesis Advisor! And it's none other than my amazing Podcast Co-Host, the wonderful Dr. George Nash! I am so excited! lets do this!
Before myths, before maps, humans stared at the night sky and found patterns.
👉 What do you think the FIRST constellation was?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
👉 What do you think the FIRST constellation was?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Before myths, before maps, humans stared at the night sky and found patterns.
👉 What do you think the FIRST constellation was?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
👉 What do you think the FIRST constellation was?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
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Fascinating summary of research on the movement of giant stone moai on Rapa Nui. Hundreds of people moved them. Did they rock them side-to-side, walking them forward? Or did they slide on sledges and rollers?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fascinating summary of research on the movement of giant stone moai on Rapa Nui. Hundreds of people moved them. Did they rock them side-to-side, walking them forward? Or did they slide on sledges and rollers?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
My alma mater! youtu.be/WsG7t1vQ9yo?...
New research by ASU paleoanthropologists: Two ancient human ancestors were neighbors
YouTube video by ASU Institute of Human Origins
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My alma mater! youtu.be/WsG7t1vQ9yo?...
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Australopithecus deyiremeda 🤝 Burtele foot www.sciencenews.org/article/foot... 🏺🧪
A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy
Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.
www.sciencenews.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Australopithecus deyiremeda 🤝 Burtele foot www.sciencenews.org/article/foot... 🏺🧪
Ostrich eggshell beads (50–33 ka): matching diameters in eastern + southern Africa mark long-distance social networks that waxed/waned with rainfall. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #OESbeads #SocialNetworks
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ostrich eggshell beads (50–33 ka): matching diameters in eastern + southern Africa mark long-distance social networks that waxed/waned with rainfall. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #OESbeads #SocialNetworks
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humans were healers long before we had doctors.
👉 When do you think compassion first appeared in our species?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
👉 When do you think compassion first appeared in our species?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Humans were healers long before we had doctors.
👉 When do you think compassion first appeared in our species?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
👉 When do you think compassion first appeared in our species?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
Come; take a seat by the fire, and listen to the stories of our deep history, and ancient past - The Story of Us!
youtube.com/@worldofpale...
#rockart #HumanOrigins #paleoanthropology #archaeology
youtube.com/@worldofpale...
#rockart #HumanOrigins #paleoanthropology #archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Come; take a seat by the fire, and listen to the stories of our deep history, and ancient past - The Story of Us!
youtube.com/@worldofpale...
#rockart #HumanOrigins #paleoanthropology #archaeology
youtube.com/@worldofpale...
#rockart #HumanOrigins #paleoanthropology #archaeology
Lascaux (~17 ka): a red sandstone fat lamp—one of 100+—lit deep art chambers. Experiments show how fat, resin & torches shaped cave light. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Lascaux #ArchaeologyOfTheSenses
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Lascaux (~17 ka): a red sandstone fat lamp—one of 100+—lit deep art chambers. Experiments show how fat, resin & torches shaped cave light. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Lascaux #ArchaeologyOfTheSenses
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Neanderthal Rock Art & Symbolic Thought?
You better believe it!
You better believe it!
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Neanderthal Rock Art & Symbolic Thought?
You better believe it!
You better believe it!
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New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
The Four Sexes
The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.
www.prosocial.world
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
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Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neandertal recipe with lentils and grain
Looking at a fascinating new study that finds mixtures of different plants within ancient morsels of charred foods.
www.johnhawks.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
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This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing the hunt wasn’t just about food.
It was the first community.
👉 What do you think was humanity’s earliest form of “togetherness”?
Fire? Food? Stories? Something else?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
It was the first community.
👉 What do you think was humanity’s earliest form of “togetherness”?
Fire? Food? Stories? Something else?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sharing the hunt wasn’t just about food.
It was the first community.
👉 What do you think was humanity’s earliest form of “togetherness”?
Fire? Food? Stories? Something else?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
It was the first community.
👉 What do you think was humanity’s earliest form of “togetherness”?
Fire? Food? Stories? Something else?
#WOPA #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology #humanorigins
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Justice worked because someone with no experience was given a job she was entirely unprepared to fail at organically. You have to know the rules to play.
www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g...
Judge tosses Comey, James cases after finding prosecutor unlawfully appointed
Lindsey Halligan, who brought the cases, is a former insurance attorney who once served as President Trump's personal lawyer before his return to office.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Justice worked because someone with no experience was given a job she was entirely unprepared to fail at organically. You have to know the rules to play.
www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g...
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Archaeologists find 370-year-old VOC shipwreck survivor camp in Western Australia
Reveals fate of 75 crew members from 1656 Vergulde Draeck disaster
Key discovery for maritime archaeology & colonial history
#Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #VOC informedclearly.com/en/science/2...
Reveals fate of 75 crew members from 1656 Vergulde Draeck disaster
Key discovery for maritime archaeology & colonial history
#Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #VOC informedclearly.com/en/science/2...
VOC Shipwreck Survivor Camp Found in Australia After 370 Years | News | informedclearly
Archaeologists discover 370-year-old survivor camp from 1656 VOC shipwreck Vergulde Draeck in Western Australia, providing new insights into fate of 75 crew members who initially survived the disaster...
informedclearly.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Archaeologists find 370-year-old VOC shipwreck survivor camp in Western Australia
Reveals fate of 75 crew members from 1656 Vergulde Draeck disaster
Key discovery for maritime archaeology & colonial history
#Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #VOC informedclearly.com/en/science/2...
Reveals fate of 75 crew members from 1656 Vergulde Draeck disaster
Key discovery for maritime archaeology & colonial history
#Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #VOC informedclearly.com/en/science/2...
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The marvelous Lucy was discovered #OnThisDay in 1974 in Ethiopia. At more than 3 million years old, she was the oldest, most complete ancestor found to date. 🏺
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The marvelous Lucy was discovered #OnThisDay in 1974 in Ethiopia. At more than 3 million years old, she was the oldest, most complete ancestor found to date. 🏺
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together
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The media & uneducated are showing their ignorance both willful & legitimate when it comes to Del. Plaskett. She was a Bronx ADA, GOP led House Ethics Committee counsel, counsel to AAG @DOJ. She was questioning a criminal ass of Trump using a criminal ass of Trump. That's being a lawyer
PAMELA BROWN: Texting with the president is different than texting with a pedophile, right?
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The media & uneducated are showing their ignorance both willful & legitimate when it comes to Del. Plaskett. She was a Bronx ADA, GOP led House Ethics Committee counsel, counsel to AAG @DOJ. She was questioning a criminal ass of Trump using a criminal ass of Trump. That's being a lawyer
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Thanks Jesse 🩵🩵🩵 @journeyled1.bsky.social
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@atoth99.bsky.social @dpsl.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @habsmtlcanadiens.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @markrf400.bsky.social @itsbek.bsky.social @fancysplace.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Good morning! Be the one who always uplifts others. Strangers or friends…doesn’t matter. Always inspire others to believe in their own strength. #Jaye’sMorningLight
Good morning! Be the one who always uplifts others. Strangers or friends…doesn’t matter. Always inspire others to believe in their own strength. #Jaye’sMorningLight
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Good morning! Be the one who always uplifts others. Strangers or friends…doesn’t matter. Always inspire others to believe in their own strength. #Jaye’sMorningLight
Good morning! Be the one who always uplifts others. Strangers or friends…doesn’t matter. Always inspire others to believe in their own strength. #Jaye’sMorningLight
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Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.” 🔥
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.” 🔥
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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“There is grandeur in this view of life - that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published today in 1859. 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“There is grandeur in this view of life - that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published today in 1859. 🧪