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/...
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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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. 🧪
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This is a companion to our paper in January of this year “Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago”. The PaleoAnthropology paper has the thorough taphonomic analysis of the entire faunal assemblage that didn’t fit in the Nature Comms paper 😄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago - Nature Communications
When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggest hominins would have l...
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is a companion to our paper in January of this year “Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago”. The PaleoAnthropology paper has the thorough taphonomic analysis of the entire faunal assemblage that didn’t fit in the Nature Comms paper 😄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#mathiasmehofer introducing #janekershaw as part of the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #ubb @univie.ac.at
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#mathiasmehofer introducing #janekershaw as part of the #HEASSeminar taking place now online and in-person in the #ubb @univie.ac.at
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Important Announcement!
Please note the location for this event has changed to the #UBB at @univie.ac.at. The event will still take place at 12:30 CET so there is no change for the online audience.
We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person!
More details and registration on our website 👇
Please note the location for this event has changed to the #UBB at @univie.ac.at. The event will still take place at 12:30 CET so there is no change for the online audience.
We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person!
More details and registration on our website 👇
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Important Announcement!
Please note the location for this event has changed to the #UBB at @univie.ac.at. The event will still take place at 12:30 CET so there is no change for the online audience.
We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person!
More details and registration on our website 👇
Please note the location for this event has changed to the #UBB at @univie.ac.at. The event will still take place at 12:30 CET so there is no change for the online audience.
We look forward to welcoming you online and in-person!
More details and registration on our website 👇
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oooh..certain folks on X think it's a slam to do a mark-up of my photo to make me look like the Joker in response to this essay...I think it's actually not so bad (the image). It reflects their level of ability to engage in actual discourse. www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
oooh..certain folks on X think it's a slam to do a mark-up of my photo to make me look like the Joker in response to this essay...I think it's actually not so bad (the image). It reflects their level of ability to engage in actual discourse. www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
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Celebrating an incredible coincidence of history today: #OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 115 years later, to the day, Lucy was found. 🏺
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Celebrating an incredible coincidence of history today: #OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 115 years later, to the day, Lucy was found. 🏺
Qafzeh Cave, Israel (~120 ka): Glycymeris shells—naturally perforated, ochre-stained, with suspension wear—were carried 40–100 km inland and strung as ornaments. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Qafzeh #SymbolicBehavior
Paper: in-africa.org/wp-content/u...
Paper: in-africa.org/wp-content/u...
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Qafzeh Cave, Israel (~120 ka): Glycymeris shells—naturally perforated, ochre-stained, with suspension wear—were carried 40–100 km inland and strung as ornaments. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Qafzeh #SymbolicBehavior
Paper: in-africa.org/wp-content/u...
Paper: in-africa.org/wp-content/u...
The Paleo Post Podcast is back! 🦴🔥
Kicking off with Neanderthal November.
Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#PaleoPostPodcast #PaleoClub
Kicking off with Neanderthal November.
Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#PaleoPostPodcast #PaleoClub
The Paleo Post Podcast! - YouTube
The Paleo Post Podcast, launched by the World of Paleoanthropology, dives deep into the fascinating world of human evolution. Initially hosted by National Ge...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Paleo Post Podcast is back! 🦴🔥
Kicking off with Neanderthal November.
Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#PaleoPostPodcast #PaleoClub
Kicking off with Neanderthal November.
Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#PaleoPostPodcast #PaleoClub
300,000 years ago, parenting looked a lot like this: tired arms, soft hair, and a kid who refuses to nap.
👉 What parenting moment do you think hasn’t changed since deep history?
#WOPA #humanorigins #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology
👉 What parenting moment do you think hasn’t changed since deep history?
#WOPA #humanorigins #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
300,000 years ago, parenting looked a lot like this: tired arms, soft hair, and a kid who refuses to nap.
👉 What parenting moment do you think hasn’t changed since deep history?
#WOPA #humanorigins #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology
👉 What parenting moment do you think hasn’t changed since deep history?
#WOPA #humanorigins #DeepHistory #paleoanthropology
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Compared with stone toolmaking itself, the traces of butchery of animal carcasses are rare across the early archaeological record. But even so, cutmarks and other butchery evidence are one of the highest signals, surprisingly constant from the earliest sites.
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins
Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong.
www.johnhawks.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Compared with stone toolmaking itself, the traces of butchery of animal carcasses are rare across the early archaeological record. But even so, cutmarks and other butchery evidence are one of the highest signals, surprisingly constant from the earliest sites.
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
www.johnhawks.net/p/olduvai-ef...
Zaskalnaya VI, Crimea (43–38 ka, Micoquian): a raven radius bears seven deliberate notches; experiments show two were added to regularize spacing—patterned mark-making. #PaleoPost #Neanderthals #Micoquian
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Zaskalnaya VI, Crimea (43–38 ka, Micoquian): a raven radius bears seven deliberate notches; experiments show two were added to regularize spacing—patterned mark-making. #PaleoPost #Neanderthals #Micoquian
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🔥 Ever wonder what your first life skill would’ve been 300,000 years ago?
Toolmaking? Tracking? Foraging? Fire-tending?
If you grew up in deep history…
👉 What’s the first thing your elders would’ve taught you?
#WOPA #humanorigins #paleoanthropology #DeepHistory #sciencecommunication
Toolmaking? Tracking? Foraging? Fire-tending?
If you grew up in deep history…
👉 What’s the first thing your elders would’ve taught you?
#WOPA #humanorigins #paleoanthropology #DeepHistory #sciencecommunication
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔥 Ever wonder what your first life skill would’ve been 300,000 years ago?
Toolmaking? Tracking? Foraging? Fire-tending?
If you grew up in deep history…
👉 What’s the first thing your elders would’ve taught you?
#WOPA #humanorigins #paleoanthropology #DeepHistory #sciencecommunication
Toolmaking? Tracking? Foraging? Fire-tending?
If you grew up in deep history…
👉 What’s the first thing your elders would’ve taught you?
#WOPA #humanorigins #paleoanthropology #DeepHistory #sciencecommunication
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Ah, that explains MTG's odd resignation date; the Congressional pension vests after five years.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ah, that explains MTG's odd resignation date; the Congressional pension vests after five years.
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The earliest stone toolmakers seem to have innovated so slowly. What is going on with that?
open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...
open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...
What explains the long stasis of Oldowan sites?
A new study reveals a 300,000 year record of toolmaking near the eastern shore of Lake Turkana
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The earliest stone toolmakers seem to have innovated so slowly. What is going on with that?
open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...
open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...
Border Cave, South Africa (~24 ka): bone arrowheads + a notched applicator with castor-bean residue (ricinoleic acid) and beeswax hafting—poisoned projectiles, complex chemistry. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #BorderCave #Poison
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Border Cave, South Africa (~24 ka): bone arrowheads + a notched applicator with castor-bean residue (ricinoleic acid) and beeswax hafting—poisoned projectiles, complex chemistry. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #BorderCave #Poison
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Imagine sitting by a fire with Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens, sharing food, tools, and stories. If you could ask them ONE question about language, art, death, gods, love, parenting, or music, what would it be? Share your question in the comments! 🔥🧠 #WOPA #humanorigins
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Imagine sitting by a fire with Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens, sharing food, tools, and stories. If you could ask them ONE question about language, art, death, gods, love, parenting, or music, what would it be? Share your question in the comments! 🔥🧠 #WOPA #humanorigins