Anyone who wants to know about the #archaeology and #anthropology of how we became human, follow my colleague @ochrewatts
He's a world expert on our earliest #symbolic record in the #African #MiddleStoneAge -- specifically the red #ochre pigment record -- and has encyclopedic knowledge of #huntergatherer #myth and #ritual practice with pigments
Here are a few of his key contributions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416524000588
Join us for the #Mastodon #Friday #Music #Event:
**Alternate Friday Music!!**
The word is #Myth.
Use the hashtag: #AlternateFridayMusic
Follow the hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
My submission: Icarus
By: #Dgar
Song Link: https://ffm.to/dgaricarus
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/114712657048500067
Join us for the #Mastodon #Friday #Music #Event:
**Alternate Friday Music!!**
The word is #Myth.
Use the hashtag: #AlternateFridayMusic
Follow the hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
My submission: Daedalus
By: #Dgar
Song Link: https://ffm.to/dgardaedalus
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/114712657048500067
Hey! It's #AlternateFridayMusic 
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #myth
Song: Making the Nouveau Riche
By: Blueline Medic
Link: https://bluelinemedic.bandcamp.com/track/making-the-nouveau-riche
The myth of a "real life":
I'm not sure how that in making someone or other rich
Is any more real than making a niche for yourself
...
Just suppose I cannot live on taxes and goodwill forever
But how is it that the problem just doesn't seem to press
While my fingers are themselves pressing hard against the neck?
3/4
Join in! Post your songs of #Myth(ic) mayhem!
"Alternate Friday Music", and the theme for Friday June 20 is "Myth".
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: Myth
Song: Al-'asr Adh-Dhahabi (The Golden Age) (2014)
By: Maurice Louca
Hesoid's "Golden Age", when humans were good and noble, and free from suffering; in the time of Cronus, they never grew old, and died peacefully, as if going to sleep. This mythological Golden Age was followed by a Silver Age, a Bronze Age, a Heroic Age and finally, an Age of Iron. During the Age of Iron, might makes right, and bad men use lies to be thought good. (Umm, myth?)
"Alternate Friday Music", and the theme for Friday June 20 is "Myth".
Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: Myth
Song: The Wizard (1972)
By: Uriah Heep
"He was the wizard of a thousand kings
And I chanced to meet him one night wandering
He told me tales and he drank my wine
Me and my magic man, kinda feelin' fine …"
We're going big on made up shit this week.
... well, that's a #Myth from the outset, we never go big!
Join in! Post songs that #Myth(s) are made from!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cP2rqZ80k
@dgar I reckon you've got something here eh?
Join us for #FortnightFridayMusic by @MarkIngs.
The word for June 13 is "Omen"
Post and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Jul 11 #Movement
Also, Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic next week.
Upcoming word are:
Jun 20 #Myth
Jul 04 #Never
Thanks to our new artist @romanalanwrites
Pesky pokes:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen
#music
How #StarWars #Andor Reframed the Star Wars #Myth - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8
This is yet another excellent analysis by #JessieGender of probably one of the best TV series as of late. The video is very long, but for good reasons! She goes quite into details about not only the #storytelling, but also about the #visual art of it, the #music, the #acting, the #casting, and how it wowes quite an insightful historical and sociological description of how a #republic becomes a #dictatorship.
"So no, Israel was not established through the United Nations. Israel was established through warfare and the creation of facts on the ground. Facts it created through the massacre of Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of villages [You can read more about this here]. This is how the modern state of Israel came into the world, and no amount of sophistry or euphemization can lend that any legitimacy."
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/the-united-nations-created-israel/
#DecolonizePalestine @israel @palestine #EthnicCleansing #Nakba #UN #myth #lies #hasbara
Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic by @MarkIngs
The word for Jun 06 is "Lies"
Post with the tag and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 20 #Myth
Jul 04 #Never
Also, Join us next week for #FortnightFridayMusic
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 13 #Omen
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Still annoying after all these years
:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen
#music
Sorry, I hate internet politics but this prompt wrote itself
Great piece in Scientific American:
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong. The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
RIP, Conference Curator! The fantasy of the conference curator is dead. Instead, let conference attendees choose conference content.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/11/rip-conference-curator
PEAK BEYOND PEAK: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Written with characteristic wit and a keen interest in science, #myth, & #folklore, the essays serve as important cultural markers not just of Scotland as it was & has developed, but of a woman’s experience of travelling alone & a testament to the importance of cultural connection, exploration & communication
2/4
https://taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/peak-beyond-peak-9781838080075/
Join us for #FortnightFridayMusic by @MarkIngs
The word for May 30 is "Prove"
Post and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 13 #Omen
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Also, Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic next week.
Upcoming word are:
Jun 06 #Lies
Jun 20 #Myth
Pesky pokes
:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago
The meeting industry old normal is over, and many event professionals are hoping and waiting for a meeting industry new normal. Don't wait!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2020/10/meeting-industry-new-normal-2
Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic by @MarkIngs.
The word for May 23 is "Karate"
Post with the tag and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 06 #Lies
Jun 20 #Myth
Also, Join us next week for #FortnightFridayMusic
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jun 13 #Omen
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Still annoying after all these years:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen
#music
You can’t install a mind that’s wise,
No template sees through your own eyes.
True PKM is built, not bought—
It grows with every well-linked thought.
The Myth: “With the right prebuilt system, your PKM is done—for-you and for good”
The Fact: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a dynamic practice of thinking, learning, and sense-making—not a static product you can buy off the shelf. No system can think for you.
Read on: https://doi.org/10.58079/13xw3
Really interesting read from #ManvirSingh gathering evidence that #ayahuasca is not as old or #Indigenous as it is made out to be. The tales tourists want to hear...
'Brabec de Mori argues that ayahuasca diffused through the Peruvian Amazon in the past 300 years. It is likely older among Tukanoan peoples further north, who, he suspects, transmitted the practice to populations missionised early in the lowlands. Yet in the regions most frequented by tourists, it seems to be a relative novelty. Brabec de Mori isn’t the first to make the argument – the anthropologist Peter Gow proposed something similar in 1994 – but he, more than anyone else, has found the anthropological data to support it.'
We definitely believe Peter Gow (who saw the equivalency of menstrual girls to shamans. Ayahuasca use tends to push women out)
#woke 
