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dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof and Leverhulme Trust ECF at Durham Anth | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research
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It's high time I updated my academic website. I'm familiar with the nuts and bots of github hosting, but does anyone have a source for quick and easy, open source templates? @zhgarfield.com, did you do yours yourself?

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Part 1 of the special issue of Hunter Gatherer Research is here! 'The secret lives of forager children: The implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood': bit.ly/HGR10-2 @sheinalew.bsky.social @vivek123.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social ‬

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

New commentary out in BBS! Archaeological objects like cave paintings, figurines, and musical instruments are often seen as early art forms uniquely tied to human symbolic cognition. But I've long been struck by how this view overlooks remarkable parallels in the animal world.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Also, incidental trivia, i always thought that 'all that glitters' was a Tolkien quote from 'Not all who wander are lost', but it's been attributed to Shakespeare.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure I shall ever be in a financial position to boycott Tesla. But If anyone wants some insight into how overvalued Tesla stock is, look no further than this list of car companies by market cap. It speaks for itself. companiesmarketcap.com/gbp/automake...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

HGR vol.10 features work on the playful stone age, the experience of death in the Irish and British Mesolithic, and Music of the Jul’hoan trance dance. Browse it online: bit.ly/HGR10-1 @sheinalew.bsky.social @vivek123.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social ‬

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I have just discovered that ocean salinity varies throughout the world due to rainfall and evaporation. It makes sense if you think about it, but I hadn't thought about it, so I share this with you.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you LUP - and to add to this we especially welcome applications from social/cultural anthropologists, as well as from applicants belonging to typically under-represented minorities.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Biology habitually defies categorical variation. Sex biology is far from unique in this regard, but it is uniquely politicised.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps the most implausible journal spam message I have ever received.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The hunter gatherer researchers are hunting and gathering for other hunter-gatherer researchers. 🧪 🏺

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I am thrilled to announce that @vivek123.bsky.social I are the incoming editors-in-chief of Hunter-Gatherer Research, published by Liverpool University Press.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

This is a really good paper and thread. It's something I've been thinking a lot lately, working on ephemeral material and cognitive technologies. Often, symbolically or cognitively rich behaviours leave little traces. Can't infer absence of complex cognition from absence of material records.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic new paper by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social on the link between material cultural remains and cognition, with a great deep dive into the culture of contemporary hunter-gatherers (& potential drivers of differences in the traces they would leave) 😍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Very thoughtful perspective on “hominin cognition” and the need to reconsider the link between past material culture and cognition, by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social, with over 20 commentaries and rejoinder: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

A great article by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social in Behavioral and Brain Sciences doi.org/10.1017/S014... on the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use - including 21 (!) comments #Archaeology #anthropology #evolution #cognition

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 Paper(s) Alert 🚨 The commentaries and reply for my BBS piece are online now. Read my reply to find out what Mithen got wrong about elephant-hunting; who ate the chocolates; and why we should revise our null model of hominin cognition! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments