Week's assorted articles
Woman the hunter
Evidence from 67 hunter-gatherer societies going back to the late 1800s shows that women hunt in most of them, with little evidence for rigid rules about who did what.
The work overturns the last vestiges of the tenacious ‘Man the Hunter’ myth that says ‘men hunt and women gather’, which can still influence how archaeological sites are interpreted.
The Diary of the Earth
Researchers are deciding whether a lake outside Toronto will become the ‘golden spike’ that defines the human-dominated geologic period: the #anthropocene.
This beautiful interactive feature shows how Crawford Lake’s unusual chemistry preserves perfect layers of everything that fell in that year, divided by a thin layer of calcite. From the signs of 200 years of Indigenous settlement to the traces of radioactive plutonium from nuclear-weapon tests in the 1950s, “It is a permanent legacy of human impacts on the planet, written in the rock record,” said geologist Colin Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group.
Source: Washington Post
Facing extinction
As climate change threatens its existence, Tuvalu, this tiny nation in the Pacific, is not only trying to reclaim physical land but also to create a digital clone of its country to preserve its culture and history online.
Tuvalu might become the first fully digitised nation in the metaverse in a few years.
Source: The Guardian