everything is anthropology

Do you ever look at the people around you and think, "You're all just apes! Overgrown apes wearing pants!"

[everythingstarstuff]

[acitybythelightunited]

…you have too much time on your …HANDS.

[iamthegenderman]

what compelled you to do this

[no-place-for-strange-birds]

Humans have been compelled to do this for thousands of years

[langblrwhy]

[Just because white people couldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it was aliens]

[humansofnewyork]

“I want to be an archeologist. That’s a person who explores the desert and looks for dinosaur eggs and Egyptians. I’ve been thinking a lot about it. I’m already watching Jurassic Park and collecting dinosaur stickers. And once I found a piece of coral in the shape of a heart.” (Bogotá, Colombia)

[everythingisanthropology]

Not quite, my child, but keep at it!

[hankgreenoutofcontext]

I want to have an opportunity to be a mummified iceman.

Hank Green (via hankgreenoutofcontext)

[sarahtonin42]

That feeling when you find an anatomy article directly related to a research paper you’re writing… and it was published in 1963 and is only available in German. #justresearchthings

[everythingisanthropology]

I picked up a surprising amount of French researching my dissertation.  Too many French anthropologists. Too few translations.

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[bonestrash]

[fexo]

ME

[snowysauropteryx]

Can you lick the science? An abbreviated list.

[seananmcguire]

Anthropology: Maybe ask first.

Herpetology: bad plan bad plan BAD PLAN

[whisperwhisk]

Sociology: Yes, if you have time and dedication and a willingness to piss a lot of people off.

Botany: You might hallucinate or die, OR it might be delicious

Computer Science: the tingle of electricity on your tongue is how you know it’s working

Epidemiology: FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD PLEASE DO NOT

[carpebutts]

Linguistics: Despite the name, please probably don’t.

[son-of-rome]

Engineering: Maybe, but it’ll probably taste like spreadsheets 

[swordwall-deactivated20160214]

Neuroscience: that is someone’s brain. no. do not

[murtaugh-13]

Astrophysics : Could taste like space or rocket fuel….best not

Quantum Physics : You can lick it while not licking it at the same time

[itsokaytobesmart]

Science is tasty but please do not actually taste it

[everythingisanthropology]

With regards to anthropology for those who don’t know ... sometimes you’re SUPPOSED to lick the science. It’s a good way to tell if a small fragment is bone or not. Although you may ingest pesticides and get horribly sick. So “maybe ask first” is good, solid advice. 

[sdzoo]

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.” - Jonas Salk

Photo by Mike Wilson

[humansofnewyork]

“My wife died about ten years ago. We were anthropologists and did a lot of work in the field together. I recently brought out some of our old notebooks and went through them. They were from forty years ago. In one of them I found very detailed field notes from fourteen months we spent living together in an Indian village. Those notes stirred up a lot of memories. I don’t think I’ll go through our old notebooks again.”

[sdzoo]

Silver Leaf Langurs cuddle close together at the San Diego Zoo | photo by Bob Worthington

[bopxdraws]

I drew a neandertal child for my roomie’s anthropology dissertation- He got scary weird neandertal features.

[everythingisanthropology]

my friend drew this for the cover of my dissertation! look at my beautiful child. look at his weird flat head and lumpy skull.

[everythingisanthropology]

has there been NO research on the dental eruption pattern in Neandertals, or am I missing something here?

(and I don’t mean tooth formation. There are papers for days about that. I just wanna know the order their teeth erupted in!) If anyone knows of any papers …?

[edge-lorde]

ive seen stuff about analyzing teeth to see how fast a neanderthal child grew/ when they stopped nursing but not about eruption order

i find googling specific things like this to be rather frustrating :/

[everythingisanthropology]

Yup, that’s the problem I’ve run into. Lots and lots on rate of growth and very little on just eruption. It’s because the rate-of-growth thing is being debate/researched right now, I think it’s drowning out any other research about teeth. If there even IS any other research.

[edge-lorde]

i cant imagine it could be much different from modern human teeth order though? i dont know how much you need for your project here but maybe you could look at apes and see if its the same as modern humans with them? you could make an assumption from comparing the two. 

thats what i would do, but i havent had to write a real paper on research like that yet. 

[everythingisanthropology]

The only thing that could possibly be different is if the M1 and M2 erupted before some of the anterior teeth. And possibly if the permanent canines erupted before other teeth. But the only paper that mentions it is from the 1950s! Not very useful. I could look at apes, but I think they’re too far removed. I’m using a dental development chart to see how far along some Neandertal kids are, so if the molars/canines erupt earlier it could technically change where I place them. I think it’s just going to have to slide by as a possible flaw at this point. 

Research! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[everythingisanthropology]

has there been NO research on the dental eruption pattern in Neandertals, or am I missing something here?

(and I don’t mean tooth formation. There are papers for days about that. I just wanna know the order their teeth erupted in!) If anyone knows of any papers …?

[edge-lorde]

ive seen stuff about analyzing teeth to see how fast a neanderthal child grew/ when they stopped nursing but not about eruption order

i find googling specific things like this to be rather frustrating :/

[everythingisanthropology]

Yup, that’s the problem I’ve run into. Lots and lots on rate of growth and very little on just eruption. It’s because the rate-of-growth thing is being debate/researched right now, I think it’s drowning out any other research about teeth. If there even IS any other research.

[everythingisanthropology]

has there been NO research on the dental eruption pattern in Neandertals, or am I missing something here?

(and I don’t mean tooth formation. There are papers for days about that. I just wanna know the order their teeth erupted in!) If anyone knows of any papers ...?

[everythingisanthropology]

“Each “caveman” discovery lines up with God’s record on the matter. Of course Neandertals ate grains and made jewelry and complicated tools—they were fully human beings recently created in the image of God.” -from an article I stumble across just trying to find the identifiable features of Neandertal teeth.

I mean at least this guy believes in evolution, I guess.

[everythingisanthropology]

I’m back home in the States and I’m staring at my school (in London)’s library listing for the one book that contains information on this Neandertal fossil I need. Not only is it 6000 miles away but it’s been CHECKED OUT until the dissertation is due :< Anyone have access to “Fossil Hominid Remains of Weimar- Ehringsdorf” by Emanual Vlček, 1993????