looks interesting but it can’t “export/import events” :/

do you have any sources for infanticide?

was infant mortality higher for hunter-gatherers compared to Neolithic or even medieval times?

some information from a quick search (i’m not an archeologist or anthropologist. I was just very interested in Neolithic period at some time 🤷

After the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle with a more steady supply of high-calorie foodstuff ensured by agriculture and animal husbandry, the birth rate increased and demographics changed. Better nutrition and reduced female mobility led to shorter intervals between births, and ultimately to a significant growth of the Neolithic population. This ‘baby boom’ is also known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Whether a shortened period of lactation is also a factor in this development, is currently under investigation in a project led by Sofija Stefanović from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The availability of suitable weaning foods such as cereal grains might have enabled to wean babies earlier, which led to a quicker return of mothers’ fertility.

In the typical pattern of Neolithic societies, siblings are now born in quicker succession, leaving only two to three years between births. Farming communities are known for having many children – not only because they can be supported nutritionally, but also because their labour is needed for the plentiful work in the fields. The physical toll of childbirth probably increases for the mothers, and their social position may change significantly. If they no longer go out on gathering trips as much and remain close to home, presumably with other women in the same situation, confinement and control can be one consequence.

Human hunter-gatherers, for example the Gainj of highland Papua New Guinea, have an average of 43 months between births. Pennington (2001) calculated 39 months for hunter-gatherers, taking the mean of four non sedentary populations. Three and a half to four years between children seems normal for prehistoric people before the Neolithic, i.e. the adoption of agriculture, animal husbandry and a sedentary lifestyle.

How is this child spacing achieved? Mothers breastfeed their babies for at least the first two years of life, and unrestricted breastfeeding suppresses ovulation, preventing further pregnancies. How exactly this mechanism works is still under debate – and do not try this at home: it has been shown that in well-fed, western civilisations with a limited nursing culture breastfeeding alone is not a reliable method of birth control. The continuous, around-the-clock suckling of infants produces hormones in the mother that suppress ovulation, but the energy balance of a lactating woman may also have something to do with it (Thompson 2013).

https://motherhoodinprehistory.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/prehistoric-child-spacing/

“growing population” is a sedentary problem. Hunter-gatherers didn’t reproduce like rabbits.

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when i write “wait”; i mean you can, in France, have an openly fascist government in 2 years.

we seem to have difficulties comprehending each other 🤷

sorry. i think i misunderstood your comment and i feel like i’m not the only one.

French government isn’t fascist yet but authoritarian, neo-liberal, hypocritical and arrogant. Wait 2 years and we’ll see if it finally stinks.

i don’t use rules but fairmail has an option about gmail labels in rules ☞ https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#faq71

I’ve been using fairmail for some years. I’m on tuta now but i may end up getting a mailbox.org just to have fairmail as my main mailer again

first syncthing fork and now cromite ⁉️

it’s rather the opposite. While Syrians fleeing the war were left to drown in the Mediterranean, or blocked by EU in Greece or Turkey (with deals made to prevent them from entering EU), Ukrainians fleeing the war were helped and welcomed.

it was a shame to see the stark difference.

Here in France, I was not welcomed with open arms.

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Kevin Eric Raymundo, more commonly known by the pseudonym Tarantadong Kalbo or TK, is a Filipino comic strip cartoonist.

Raymundo began drawing the Tarantadong Kalbo slice of life comic strips in July 2019 initially posting it on Facebook.

likely source ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantadong_Kalbo

ai doesn’t have a “style”

a tea from california poppies, passion flowers and vervain and you sleep “like a baby”

that advertisement becomes more relevant and they don’t need to search for things they may like

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i started reading about anarchism at a very early age (14, 15?) after encountering a 2 page description of Nietzsche, Nihilism and Anarchism in an encyclopedia. I wasn’t in uni yet and back then only universities had internet connection, so i had to find books.

From Proudhon to Anarcho-Communists to Stirner to even Anarcho-Capitalists(!) i’ve read all. Add some Dadaism and later Situationists (and after more time their inheritors Tiqqun). I thought I’ve met Bookchin’s ideas late but apparently I’ve met him early through Ursula K. Le Guin (who wrote a wonderful fiction about an anarchist diaspora settling on the moon of a planet).

Not to forget thinkers/philosophers/poets (like Guattari for example, among many others) who wrote the most liberating lines without any anarchist consideration in mind.

I can’t recommend books but a method: Find books that interest you and follow the citations upstream towards other books (or downstream towards their spawns or inheritors).

Now that we have Wikipedia, we’re lucky to click/touch through articles and get books downloaded or delivered to our doors (if we’re lucky to have doors).

Good luck to you.

check the map on the linked Wikipedia page. Looks like it’s a “problem” in many other places

Are you suggesting it’s literally illegal to walk around with a barclava in your city?

☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering

The French ban on face covering is the result of an act of parliament passed in 2010 banning the wearing of face-covering headgear, including masks, helmets, balaclavas, niqābs and other veils covering the face, and full body costumes and zentais (skin-tight garments covering entire body) in public places, except under specified circumstances.

The woman is tempted by a talking serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and gives some to the man, who eats also. (Contrary to popular myth she does not beguile the man, who appears to have been present at the encounter with the serpent). God punishes the man with a lifetime of hard labor followed by death, the woman with the pain of childbirth and subordination to her husband, and curses the serpent to crawl on its belly and endure enmity with both man and woman.

Dude, this is no time to be horny. There is literally a lion just over there.

“The first man and woman are in God’s Garden of Eden, where all creation is vegetarian and there is no violence.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve