Lapita | Logarithmic History
1547 – 1350 BCE The Lapita culture (defined based on pottery) starts showing up on the islands of Melanesia around this time. The culture was almost certainly brought from outside, by mariners spea…| Logarithmic History
1110 – 1160 CE Logarithmic History now unfolds at 50 years a day. The innovations which make their appearance in East Asia round about the year 1000 … form such a coherent and extensive whole that we have to yield to the evidence: at this period, the Chinese world experienced a real transformation. … The […]| Logarithmic History
1056 – 1109 Bedouins can acquire royal authority only by making use of religious coloring, such as prophethood or sainthood, or some great religious event in general. The reason is because of their savagery, the Bedouins are the least willing of all nations to subordinate themselves to each other, as they are rude, proud, ambitious, […]| Logarithmic History
736 – 807 CE Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800, a collaboration between Church and State. A particular division of power between secular and religious authorities would define European society for many centuries. On this blog I pay particular attention to kinship systems. They deserve this attention: the study of […]| Logarithmic History
581 – 660 CE The major civilizations of Eurasia found different ways to integrate (a) systems of kinship and descent, with roots stretching back into the deep history of Neolithic demic expansions, (b) states and state formation, especially along meta-ethnic frontiers, and (c) major world religions. In Classical Greece and Rome, devotion to patrilineal descent groups was edged out by wider […]| Logarithmic History
Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa. The post Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
1547 – 1350 BCE The Lapita culture (defined based on pottery) starts showing up on the islands of Melanesia around this time. The culture was almost certainly brought from outside, by mariners spea…| Logarithmic History
The journey to Mala is best undertaken after the monsoon sets sail. The journey into Mala’s psyche, as well. Mid-season squall, trees whipping, flipping. Thick clouds cruising low to the northeast. Silver of slamming rain, green of roughed-up leaves, umber of supple twigs. Wind-borne ocean dunking everybody. In the sodden detritus, leeches probe for blood, […]| Center for Humans & Nature
To new subscribers—welcome to On the Commons! To those of you who’ve been around a while, welcome back! I recently wrote an essay for Psyche/Aeon’s “one thing that changed me” series that…| Antonia Malchik
35.9 – 34.0 thousand years ago I just posted a tweet about population structure in people thirty four thousand years ago. Like modern hunter-gatherers, people back then apparently managed to distri…| Logarithmic History
747 – 817 CE Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800, a collaboration between Church and State. A particular division of power between secular and religious authorities wou…| Logarithmic History
Bedtime stories are stories narrated by adults to children before they fall asleep. As an essential parenting skill, the storytelling scene is infused with love and trust. These stories make the transition from day to night easier. Rest well, tomorrow will be another day.| Platypus
Ramona Denby-Brinson has spent the last 30 years keeping children out of the foster system and in the homes of relatives.| Endeavors
