How women drove the evolution of symbolic culture: the last half million years

🌟 Join us for an insightful talk on the evolution of symbolic culture! 🌟

📅 Date: October 10 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Location: Daryll Forde Room, 230, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
🔗 Zoom ID: 952 8554 1412, Passcode: Wawilak

In this engaging presentation, Ian Watts presents a revolutionary perspective utilizing Chris Knight’s ‘sex-strike’ model alongside Camilla Power’s Female Cosmetic Coalitions model to explore the origins of symbolic culture. This discussion aims to answer fundamental anthropological questions about modern humans and the evolution of our symbolic species.

Key points of discussion:

• The earliest archaeological evidence of group ritual focusing on earth pigment use
• How these findings relate to brain size evolution
• Contextual behavioral developments including campsites and lunar phase-locked hunting
• The concept of an ‘ideology of blood’ as the foundation of symbolic culture, with evidence from ethnographic records of myth and ritual

Ian emphasizes the importance of social anthropology in examining hunter-gatherer myth and ritual in light of these predictions. Don't miss this enlightening session – we look forward to seeing you there! 🎤✨

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