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
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
The period leading up to historical times saw the rise of patrilineal descent groups across Eurasia. Different civilizations found different ways of accommodating these groups. In China, patrilineal clans go as far back as we have any historical records, back to the Shang dynasty. Confucius (551-479 BCE) in some ways represented a break with this past. […]| 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
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
