Human Relations Area Files at Yale University
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- New anthropology teaching activity on Divination and Oracles by Dr. Francine Barone: hraf.yale.edu/teach-ehraf/divination-and-oracles/ This free resource also includes a PPT workbook version for classroom use.
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityGeorge Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth
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- Happy Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil, the shadow-spying rodent of Pennsylvania, is perhaps the most famous weather oracle. Did you know that oracles & divination are likely cultural universals, existing all over the world? Learn more about divination and its function: hraf.yale.edu/coping-with-...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale University🚨 Out now in Child Development! We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityOur understanding of the Universe is stronger because of Bill Nye’s remarkable leadership and advocacy. Thank you, Bill, for your 15 years leading the Planetary Society, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to advance science and space exploration!🚀✨ pasadenanow.com/main/bill-ny...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityDiscoveries revealed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe near Sanliurfa, Turkey, are giving archaeologists new understandings of how humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago. www.reuters.com/science/new-...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityI love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.
- It seems appropriate to share this post from the archives this weekend hraf.yale.edu/surviving-wi...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityI was surprised by children's large contribution to family food production in my hunter-gatherer family simulation. Of course, they're eating most of this food, too! From this paper linking the evolution of menopause to family energy balance: menopause-preprint.wisp.place 🧪 #BioAnth
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityOpen call for applications, NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp 2026. Boot Camp to be held in Cambridge, MA on July 17–23, 2026. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 12, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityThere is always an XKCD
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale University#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale Universitysomebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityNew article in Hunter Gatherer Research! Foraging societies practice consensus-based politics. We conduct a xc review and argue that it helps to boost collective intelligence. Consensus, cooperation and collective intelligence in foraging societies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
- Exciting new research on the structure and dynamics of leadership and followership across cultures from Zachary H. Garfield, Christopher R. von Rueden, @edhagen.net is featured in our HRAF Quarterly hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi...
- Have you seen our Cross-Cultural Concordance? hraf.yale.edu/cross-cultur...
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- This fascinating work on Gendered cordage production in cross-cultural perspective by Ruth Jolie is featured in our latest HRAF Academic Quarterly. Jolie used eHRAF to examine evidence for gendered cordage production cross-culturally over the last 150 years. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- It's time for our 10th annual HRAF Year in Review by Dr. Francine Barone. Check out our yearly retrospective and preview here: hraf.yale.edu/hraf-2025-in...
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- Intriguing new discoveries in a medieval cemetery in Wales have brought archaeologists closer to solving the mystery surrounding the women buried there. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityDean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityNYRB: The Empire Gives Back Susan Tallman reviews Who Owns Beauty? by Bénédicte Savoy, and Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting by Dan Hicks www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
- Home for the holidays? Curl up in front of the fire with "Home Truths: An Anthropology of House and Home" by Francine Barone to learn why one of the most common facets across cultures is the association of the home not with bricks or mortar, but with family. hraf.yale.edu/home-truths-...
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- 🎄If you're looking for a holiday reading list, we've got you covered. The final HRAF Academic Quarterly of 2025 is out now, with over a dozen new publications to discover: hraf.yale.edu/hraf-academi...
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- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityMichael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
- Reposted by Human Relations Area Files at Yale UniversityOkay. This is angering me. First of all, “MAN”!? We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”. And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
