Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Brachycephalization

    Brachycephalization https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/24/brachycephalization/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-24 23:42:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264703327599820807

  • Brachycephalization

    Feb 1, 2020, 3:02 PM Brachycephalization on the western steppe after the Mesolithic Interesting stuff from the ADNABIOARC team at Scientific Reports today: Abstract: The Neolithic transition brought about fundamental social, dietary and behavioural changes in human populations, which, in turn, impacted skeletal morphology. Crania are shaped through diverse genetic, ontogenetic and environmental factors, reflecting various elements of an individual’s life. To determine the transition’s effect on cranial morphology, we investigated its potential impact on the face and vault, two elements potentially responding to different influences. Three datasets from geographically distant regions (Ukraine, Iberia, and the Levant plus Anatolia) were analysed. Craniometric measurements were used to compare the morphology of pre-transition populations with that of agricultural populations. The Neolithic transition corresponds to a statistically significant increase only in cranial breadth of the Ukrainian vaults, while facial morphology shows no consistent transformations, despite expected changes related to the modification of masticatory behaviour. The broadening of Ukrainian vaults may be attributable to dietary and/or social changes. However, the lack of change observed in the other geographical regions and the lack of consistent change in facial morphology are surprising. Although the transition from foraging to farming is a process that took place repeatedly across the globe, different characteristics of transitions seem responsible for idiosyncratic responses in cranial morphology. Cheronet et al., Morphological change in cranial shape following the transition to agriculture across western Eurasia, Scientific Reports, Published online: 13 September 2016, doi:10.1038/srep33316 See also.. Modeling Steppe_EMBA

  • Brachycephalization

    Feb 1, 2020, 3:02 PM Brachycephalization on the western steppe after the Mesolithic Interesting stuff from the ADNABIOARC team at Scientific Reports today: Abstract: The Neolithic transition brought about fundamental social, dietary and behavioural changes in human populations, which, in turn, impacted skeletal morphology. Crania are shaped through diverse genetic, ontogenetic and environmental factors, reflecting various elements of an individual’s life. To determine the transition’s effect on cranial morphology, we investigated its potential impact on the face and vault, two elements potentially responding to different influences. Three datasets from geographically distant regions (Ukraine, Iberia, and the Levant plus Anatolia) were analysed. Craniometric measurements were used to compare the morphology of pre-transition populations with that of agricultural populations. The Neolithic transition corresponds to a statistically significant increase only in cranial breadth of the Ukrainian vaults, while facial morphology shows no consistent transformations, despite expected changes related to the modification of masticatory behaviour. The broadening of Ukrainian vaults may be attributable to dietary and/or social changes. However, the lack of change observed in the other geographical regions and the lack of consistent change in facial morphology are surprising. Although the transition from foraging to farming is a process that took place repeatedly across the globe, different characteristics of transitions seem responsible for idiosyncratic responses in cranial morphology. Cheronet et al., Morphological change in cranial shape following the transition to agriculture across western Eurasia, Scientific Reports, Published online: 13 September 2016, doi:10.1038/srep33316 See also.. Modeling Steppe_EMBA

  • ANF Exposure Was Limited in The Middle East Despite Their Relative Proximity

    Feb 1, 2020, 5:32 PM

    —“Early European Farmers did come from Anatolia originally. But their population, Barcin_N or ANF, was basal to both Europeans and certain Mesopotamians, the latter receiving the gene flow much later than the former. This means that the “Neolithic toolkit” that entered Europe was independent of Mesopotamian influence (Mesos had their own source). Modern Assyrians, who are probably closest to ancient Akkadians, have around 30% ANF, and most North Europeans (North mind you) score even higher than that. It just comes to show how limited the ANF exposure was in the Middle East despite their relative proximity.”—Göran Dahl

  • ANF Exposure Was Limited in The Middle East Despite Their Relative Proximity

    Feb 1, 2020, 5:32 PM

    —“Early European Farmers did come from Anatolia originally. But their population, Barcin_N or ANF, was basal to both Europeans and certain Mesopotamians, the latter receiving the gene flow much later than the former. This means that the “Neolithic toolkit” that entered Europe was independent of Mesopotamian influence (Mesos had their own source). Modern Assyrians, who are probably closest to ancient Akkadians, have around 30% ANF, and most North Europeans (North mind you) score even higher than that. It just comes to show how limited the ANF exposure was in the Middle East despite their relative proximity.”—Göran Dahl

  • This Is Why the West Just Works

    This Is Why the West Just Works https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/24/this-is-why-the-west-just-works/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-24 23:08:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264694831240151043

  • This Is Why the West Just Works

    THIS IS WHY THE WEST JUST WORKS – NEGATIVA JURIDICAL MATERIAL PRIESTHOOD AND POSITIVA SUPERNATURAL PRIESTHOODS. Proto-Indo-European society comprised three main groups corresponding to three distinct functions:

    1. Sovereignty, which fell into two distinct and complementary sub-parts:
      … 1.1 one formal, juridical and priestly but worldly;
      … 1.2 the other powerful, unpredictable, and also priestly but rooted in the supernatural world.
    2. Military, connected with force, the military and war.
    3. Productivity, herding, farming and crafts; ruled by the other two.
  • This Is Why the West Just Works

    THIS IS WHY THE WEST JUST WORKS – NEGATIVA JURIDICAL MATERIAL PRIESTHOOD AND POSITIVA SUPERNATURAL PRIESTHOODS. Proto-Indo-European society comprised three main groups corresponding to three distinct functions:

    1. Sovereignty, which fell into two distinct and complementary sub-parts:
      … 1.1 one formal, juridical and priestly but worldly;
      … 1.2 the other powerful, unpredictable, and also priestly but rooted in the supernatural world.
    2. Military, connected with force, the military and war.
    3. Productivity, herding, farming and crafts; ruled by the other two.
  • No, Service Isn’t Enough.

    Feb 1, 2020, 9:23 PM

    —“Curt, I’m sure you’d agree, some of our most gallant, extraordinary soldiers, black & brown, native American, come from the worst of ghettos, in every state, every large or small city, maybe, speaking of history, even the war fighter in the tomb of the unknown came from there?”—

    Sure. Although the majority come from intergenerational military families. And sure, you can try to spin my work as other than ‘If you can’t fit into anglo rule-of-law middle class civilization, and you vote the left in to undermine it, then your military service is irrelevant.” All NAXALT arguments are attempts at deception. Statements of distributions are true if they describe the area under the distribution. I don’t care about race but people vote almost entirely by it, and have made race an existential construct – in a war on the american experiment. So, extending the franchise to non-propertied (non-business owners) was instituted as a means of choosing priorities for the allocation of scarce revenues to the production of commons in common interest. It was not an invitation to destroy the American experiment in a third way. And the Left is desperately chasing the false promise that they can be free of genetic, sexual, social, economic and political market value in a world where the european civilizational windfall has been spent on dragging the world out of communism, socialism, and now islamism. We have the most ignorant generation in almost two centuries for a reason: by design of the left to manufacture useful idiots under the postwar false promise that their evolutionary condition was a product of oppression rather than market value to others. And since evidence has falsified marxism, socialism, and science has falsified feminism, postmodernism, and denial of our substantial differences in gender, class, and race, other than invasive immigration the west would have survived the 20th century of social pseudoscience. So we can’t let you take the rest of us down with us. It’s over. The century of false promise is over. You killed democracy. And it will die with your names on it for eternity. There will be no second fall of the Roman Empire – this time by pseudoscience instead of theology.

  • No, Service Isn’t Enough.

    Feb 1, 2020, 9:23 PM

    —“Curt, I’m sure you’d agree, some of our most gallant, extraordinary soldiers, black & brown, native American, come from the worst of ghettos, in every state, every large or small city, maybe, speaking of history, even the war fighter in the tomb of the unknown came from there?”—

    Sure. Although the majority come from intergenerational military families. And sure, you can try to spin my work as other than ‘If you can’t fit into anglo rule-of-law middle class civilization, and you vote the left in to undermine it, then your military service is irrelevant.” All NAXALT arguments are attempts at deception. Statements of distributions are true if they describe the area under the distribution. I don’t care about race but people vote almost entirely by it, and have made race an existential construct – in a war on the american experiment. So, extending the franchise to non-propertied (non-business owners) was instituted as a means of choosing priorities for the allocation of scarce revenues to the production of commons in common interest. It was not an invitation to destroy the American experiment in a third way. And the Left is desperately chasing the false promise that they can be free of genetic, sexual, social, economic and political market value in a world where the european civilizational windfall has been spent on dragging the world out of communism, socialism, and now islamism. We have the most ignorant generation in almost two centuries for a reason: by design of the left to manufacture useful idiots under the postwar false promise that their evolutionary condition was a product of oppression rather than market value to others. And since evidence has falsified marxism, socialism, and science has falsified feminism, postmodernism, and denial of our substantial differences in gender, class, and race, other than invasive immigration the west would have survived the 20th century of social pseudoscience. So we can’t let you take the rest of us down with us. It’s over. The century of false promise is over. You killed democracy. And it will die with your names on it for eternity. There will be no second fall of the Roman Empire – this time by pseudoscience instead of theology.