5,000 years. One toolkit. New excavations at Gabon’s Pahon Cave show foragers ignored “tech trends” like microliths, sticking to simple flakes for millennia. Sometimes, the best innovation is knowing when not to change. 🪨🌿🦇 #Archaeology #Evolution #Gabon #StoneAge
Stagnation or Strategy? The 5,000-Year Standstill of a Rainforest Toolkit
Excavations in Gabon’s Pahon Cave reveal a stone industry that defied the pressure to change, forcing us to rethink what innovation looks like in the deep past.
www.anthropology.net
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
5,000 years. One toolkit. New excavations at Gabon’s Pahon Cave show foragers ignored “tech trends” like microliths, sticking to simple flakes for millennia. Sometimes, the best innovation is knowing when not to change. 🪨🌿🦇 #Archaeology #Evolution #Gabon #StoneAge
Urban Foragers Are Mapping Edible Plants Around the World
Urban Foragers Are Mapping Edible Plants Around the World
www.vegan-news.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Urban Foragers Are Mapping Edible Plants Around the World
Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sex-specific differences in daily ranges and home ranges as determined by GPS data loggers in a small central place forager - Mammalian Biology
Animals use home ranges for daily activities such as foraging, mating, and caring for young. Home ranges are often smaller than daily ranges — the areas used within a single day — though the two can b...
link.springer.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🛸One of my favorite panels I have done for my Comic series.
If you don't know, I have a comic called The Cosmic Foragers about two aliens. Jelly and Nut explore the galaxy looking for mushrooms and usually end up meeting some critters and friends along the way.
#comic #comicbook #aliencomic
If you don't know, I have a comic called The Cosmic Foragers about two aliens. Jelly and Nut explore the galaxy looking for mushrooms and usually end up meeting some critters and friends along the way.
#comic #comicbook #aliencomic
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🛸One of my favorite panels I have done for my Comic series.
If you don't know, I have a comic called The Cosmic Foragers about two aliens. Jelly and Nut explore the galaxy looking for mushrooms and usually end up meeting some critters and friends along the way.
#comic #comicbook #aliencomic
If you don't know, I have a comic called The Cosmic Foragers about two aliens. Jelly and Nut explore the galaxy looking for mushrooms and usually end up meeting some critters and friends along the way.
#comic #comicbook #aliencomic
I can see both sides of the argument. I would not want random strangers trampling around my property with their dog . On the other hand if the mushroom foragers were respectful and asked for permission it might be different.
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I can see both sides of the argument. I would not want random strangers trampling around my property with their dog . On the other hand if the mushroom foragers were respectful and asked for permission it might be different.
Hi Foragers, no stream tonight as a cold is kicking my ass
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hi Foragers, no stream tonight as a cold is kicking my ass
I've not read anything else from her, and I didn't find the political lines very compelling, but I really loved the accounts of matsutake foragers and traders
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I've not read anything else from her, and I didn't find the political lines very compelling, but I really loved the accounts of matsutake foragers and traders
Downy Woodpeckers maintain feeding territories year round but often join winter flocks of chickadees and nuthatches. They are acrobatic foragers that can hang upside-down and reach the outermost tips of branches. Downy Woodpeckers generally feed by exploring bark crevices.
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Downy Woodpeckers maintain feeding territories year round but often join winter flocks of chickadees and nuthatches. They are acrobatic foragers that can hang upside-down and reach the outermost tips of branches. Downy Woodpeckers generally feed by exploring bark crevices.
Comparing weight discrimination in cockatoos and capuchins 🏋🏻
Both extractive foragers, tool users, and CUTE 😍 #ASABWinter2025
Both extractive foragers, tool users, and CUTE 😍 #ASABWinter2025
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Comparing weight discrimination in cockatoos and capuchins 🏋🏻
Both extractive foragers, tool users, and CUTE 😍 #ASABWinter2025
Both extractive foragers, tool users, and CUTE 😍 #ASABWinter2025
Really enjoyed Melissa Hargreaves' 🇳🇿 talk! Can't be easy following Innes Cuthill! Based on their initial findings it seems like a combination of monocular and binocular vision is important for strike foragers like the mantis shrimp 🦐 🙌 #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social @asab.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Really enjoyed Melissa Hargreaves' 🇳🇿 talk! Can't be easy following Innes Cuthill! Based on their initial findings it seems like a combination of monocular and binocular vision is important for strike foragers like the mantis shrimp 🦐 🙌 #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social @asab.org
New #preprint from the #HumanEvolutionProgram team at #UppsalaUniversity: #Ancestry, #admixture, and #pathogens in contemporaneous #Neolithicfarmers and #foragers on the Island of #Gotland www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #genetics #archaeology
Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland
Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ∼3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ance...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
New #preprint from the #HumanEvolutionProgram team at #UppsalaUniversity: #Ancestry, #admixture, and #pathogens in contemporaneous #Neolithicfarmers and #foragers on the Island of #Gotland www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #genetics #archaeology
They talked about the eagle naturally having parasites and mites on it that took four days for it to leave the body. Any got on a person wouldn't show up for weeks, then as painful welts where it had burrowed into the skin, so I imagine that kept foragers away and the deer was there and cleaner meal
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They talked about the eagle naturally having parasites and mites on it that took four days for it to leave the body. Any got on a person wouldn't show up for weeks, then as painful welts where it had burrowed into the skin, so I imagine that kept foragers away and the deer was there and cleaner meal
@lostcitymagic.bsky.social Question if I may, Sir. Re. the Eagle Hunter. What stops foragers from taking the eagle after it is killed and before the tribe send people to retrieve it? What happens if it is no longer there?
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
@lostcitymagic.bsky.social Question if I may, Sir. Re. the Eagle Hunter. What stops foragers from taking the eagle after it is killed and before the tribe send people to retrieve it? What happens if it is no longer there?
You are thinking of an era of peasant farmers and landowners. Not an era of foragers vs farmers. Note I hate the term hunter-gatherer as it implies hunting and thus men are more important which is horse shit.
I can't discuss Romans intelligently, so won't try.
I can't discuss Romans intelligently, so won't try.
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
You are thinking of an era of peasant farmers and landowners. Not an era of foragers vs farmers. Note I hate the term hunter-gatherer as it implies hunting and thus men are more important which is horse shit.
I can't discuss Romans intelligently, so won't try.
I can't discuss Romans intelligently, so won't try.
Foragers had better nutrition and life expectancy than farmers. So I don't see where your statement holds.
I do believe that farmers had more children, so, despite incredibly high levels of starvation, they would win the genetic race.
I do believe that farmers had more children, so, despite incredibly high levels of starvation, they would win the genetic race.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Foragers had better nutrition and life expectancy than farmers. So I don't see where your statement holds.
I do believe that farmers had more children, so, despite incredibly high levels of starvation, they would win the genetic race.
I do believe that farmers had more children, so, despite incredibly high levels of starvation, they would win the genetic race.
What form of communication is used by bee foragers to let the rest of the colony know the direction and distance towards a newly-discovered patch of flowers?
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What form of communication is used by bee foragers to let the rest of the colony know the direction and distance towards a newly-discovered patch of flowers?
@artologica.net Squirrel stamps are coming in 2026, probably in late fall! Here’s a link to the Post Office website of forthcoming stamps, and the squirrels themselves! I confess I’m *really* excited!
about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...
about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...
December 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
@artologica.net Squirrel stamps are coming in 2026, probably in late fall! Here’s a link to the Post Office website of forthcoming stamps, and the squirrels themselves! I confess I’m *really* excited!
about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...
about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...
“ there are bold foragers, and there are old foragers, but there are no old bold foragers”
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“ there are bold foragers, and there are old foragers, but there are no old bold foragers”
I've only ever picked Amanita rubescens as food (and I am from Central Europe, we have no other Amanita bruising pink/red). That's a species that's common, tasty and easy to identify (though vigilance is still needed - there are cases of experienced foragers poisoned by A. pantherina).
December 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I've only ever picked Amanita rubescens as food (and I am from Central Europe, we have no other Amanita bruising pink/red). That's a species that's common, tasty and easy to identify (though vigilance is still needed - there are cases of experienced foragers poisoned by A. pantherina).
Try finding a farmers market? Sometimes mushroom foragers sell at them but if they don't, asking around there might get you a hook up. Worked for me when I lived in upstate ny
December 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Try finding a farmers market? Sometimes mushroom foragers sell at them but if they don't, asking around there might get you a hook up. Worked for me when I lived in upstate ny
I have been delving into the life of this extraordinary woman who, I suspect, would not give modern foragers the time of day. She shot rabbits and ate them for breakfast. givehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/life-of-exmoor-nature-writer-hope-bourne-recognised-with-exhibition
Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition
Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have been delving into the life of this extraordinary woman who, I suspect, would not give modern foragers the time of day. She shot rabbits and ate them for breakfast. givehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/life-of-exmoor-nature-writer-hope-bourne-recognised-with-exhibition
next week! high tech for modern foragers with @alanrockefeller.bsky.social $10-$35 sliding
register: www.forkinthepath.org/schedule
register: www.forkinthepath.org/schedule
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
next week! high tech for modern foragers with @alanrockefeller.bsky.social $10-$35 sliding
register: www.forkinthepath.org/schedule
register: www.forkinthepath.org/schedule
I'd say stuff about this if I wasn't sleep deprived and hungry.
Foragers and all that jazz, but I can't think in this state.
Foragers and all that jazz, but I can't think in this state.
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I'd say stuff about this if I wasn't sleep deprived and hungry.
Foragers and all that jazz, but I can't think in this state.
Foragers and all that jazz, but I can't think in this state.
I am just a casual chicken-enjoyer looking at a list of chicken breeds with pictures, but the design on Brownie's feathers feels like this one.
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I am just a casual chicken-enjoyer looking at a list of chicken breeds with pictures, but the design on Brownie's feathers feels like this one.
There’s been a bunch of unbelievably bad reporting around Deathcap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides). Here’s a reporter who actually interview foragers (myself included) and does a better job of summarizing the risks without leaning into sensationalism.
sf.gazetteer.co/if-youre-not...
sf.gazetteer.co/if-youre-not...
‘If you're not educated enough, there’s real danger’
As the Department of Health advises against foraging, professional mushroom-hunters share tips on picking safely.
sf.gazetteer.co
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
There’s been a bunch of unbelievably bad reporting around Deathcap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides). Here’s a reporter who actually interview foragers (myself included) and does a better job of summarizing the risks without leaning into sensationalism.
sf.gazetteer.co/if-youre-not...
sf.gazetteer.co/if-youre-not...