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Archaeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Evolutionary Biology, Perspectival Relativity, Amerindian and Animic Ontologies, Nutrition, Longevity and Life Extension. All these things.
View ArticleDebunking and Deconstructing Some ‘Myths of Paleo’. Part One: Tubers
Glucose restriction represents not only the most crucial component of ancestral diets but is by far the easiest element to emulate.IntroductionThe most profound consequence of the shift from foraging...
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A few people have mentioned that the 'comment' section wasn't displayed in the previous post. I've done a bit of troubleshooting so hopefully that's now fixed.- LX
View ArticleMusings: Cognitive Archaeology; Romantic 'Paleo Primitivism'; From Trust to...
A great frustration of mine has been the application of cognitive psychology to the study of the consciousness of prehistoric peoples in the last 20 years. The discovery of monumental Epipalaeolithic...
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View ArticleGood News and Future Research
The subject of my thesis consists of analysing of the site-specific ontological processes of ‘ritual framing’ at Epipalaeolithic to Pre-Pottery Neolithic communities and cult sites in the Upper...
View Article‘Myths of Paleo’ Part Two: Pale Skin in the Palaeolithic?! or ‘How High...
Numerous evolutionary hypotheses have attempted to explain the de-pigmentation of human skin colour in prehistory – a mutation assumed by many to be ancestral to our species. Archaeological...
View ArticleComments (again)
I've responded numerous times to comments in the previous post, however, for some reason Blogger won't show my replies or additional comments unless you select 'load more' (it took me an entire DAY to...
View ArticleMerhaba from Anatolia
A brief post as I'm limited with wifi here but for anyone wondering I'm currently exploring the Oriente on my 3-month-long research trip (searching for Palaeolithic petroglyphs in the highlands of...
View ArticleWhat I Eat [Part Two] – In Turkey!
My language fluency flourished significantly throughout my stay in Turkey. More often than not this was due to simple necessity: I was travelling primarily in the Eastern highlands (‘remote’ would...
View ArticleMyths of Paleo, Part Three: The Amylase Gene
A popular and on-going point of contention in the Paleosphere is whether starch constitutes a safe and essential nutrient. One of the arguments for starch consumption is based on the assumption that...
View ArticleMusings: Does Starch Consumption and Amylase Activity Activate Stress...
In the footnotes of my previous post, I remarked that there appeared to be a correlation between starch consumption, salivary a-amylase activity, and stress responses in the human body. My thanks to...
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