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Radical Anthropology

Pretty exciting record of #ochre (red/orange) close to #burials of #Levant #MiddlePalaeolithic at #Tinshemet

These are human populations contemporary to #Skhul and #Qafzeh and we need more on the #fossils -- any H s/Nean admixing, cultural and genetic?

nature.com/articles/s41562-025

NatureEvidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human BehaviourThe Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural complexity and consolidation of a uniform behavioural set across Homo groups in the region.
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Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي

Beautiful #infographic of aerial traffic out of #Beirut and #Damascus, from the 1968 master plan of Damascus, by Michel Écochard.

There are many beautiful things to note, One of my favourite is that the map spreads eastwards as well as westwards. Riyadh and Jaddah are there, but there are fewer flights than to Delhi, Karachi, and Bombay.

I wonder what a similar infographic would look like today.

Infographic showing number of flights from Beirut and Damascus to cities across the world, grouped west (Europe and North America), east (Asia), and south (Africa).
#urbanplanning#history#southsouth
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum**

_“Our results paint a picture of Yemen being in a crossroads, marked by the large-scale baseline genetic diversity that largely evolved many millennia. Yemen witnessed an initial gene flow pattern defined by the more ancient markers from the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant that started as early as the Epipaleolithic period followed by population isolation and limited expansion. Yemen witnessed additional, but less substantial, flow from southwest Asia, Jordan and Syria through the Nabateans during the active incense trade between the Levant and Yemen, from Arabia during the Islamic Expansion, and a subsequent one from the west and southwest dominated by East Africa.”_

Henschel, A., Saif-Ali, R., Al-Habori, M. et al. Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum. Sci Rep 14, 31704 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-816.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Genomics #Migration #Yemen #Arabia #Levant #Academia #Academics @science @biology

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Evan Centanni (PolGeoNow)

As promised! Here's our new subscriber map of control in #Syria AFTER the fall of #Assad, including territory newly under #Israel and so-called "#IslamicState" (#ISIS/#ISIL). Plus handy timeline of events amid this seismic shift.

More info: polgeonow.com/2024/12/syria-wh

#geography #OSINT #geopolitics #SyriaWar #SyriaNews #MiddleEast #Mediterranean #Russia #maps #mapping #map #cartography #conflictmapping #ArmedConflict #Israel @geography @geopolitics #conflictzones #SyrianCivilWar #Levant

www.polgeonow.comSyria: Map of Control After the Fall of Assad - Dec. 14, 2024 (Subscription)The fall of Assad has left much (not all) of Syria under rebel control, while both Israel and "ISIS" have entered the fray.
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Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي

Hello #Mastodon! Moving to a new server, so here's my #introduction.

I'm a technologist, urban planner, and a #PhD student based in #Toronto, with #Luddite tendencies. I research municipal climate action plans and the role of computational modelling in shaping them. Particularly of the emancipatory potnetial of modelling.

I also think and write about #anticapitalist climate futures of #Palestine and the #Levant.

With @bothness, I co-founded Palestine Open Maps PalOpenMaps.org

palopenmaps.orgPalestine Open MapsExplore, search and download historical maps and spatial data on Palestine
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h o ʍ l e t t

→ Abou Mohammed al-Joulani, le leader islamiste qui a fait tomber Bachar al-Assad
mediapart.fr/journal/internati

« Dans un Proche-Orient où les tenues sont scrutées parce qu’elles disent beaucoup de celui qui les porte, la mue vestimentaire d’Abou Mohammed al-Joulani, chef du groupe islamiste radical Hayat Tahrir al-Cham (HTC, pour « Organisation de libération du Levant »), fait beaucoup parler. »

Mediapart · Abou Mohammed al-Joulani, le leader islamiste qui a fait tomber Bachar al-AssadBy Jean-Pierre Perrin
#Assad#Joulani#HTC
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Alx 🐈

For everyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge on the Levant, I strongly recommend to read @ayoub newsletter:

hauntologies.net/

and I personally love the podcast he is co-producing:

fromtheperiphery.com/

with such a diverse cast of voices from peripheral regions.

I've been learning so much from them in the last months.

www.hauntologies.netHauntologies by Elia Ayoub | SubstackObservations on the Mashriq (Lebanon, Syria, Israel-Palestine) and the world from an anti-authoritarian writer, postdoc researcher, occasional journalist, founder of The Fire These Times and co-founder of From The Periphery Media Collective. Click to read Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
#Levant#Lebanon#Palestine
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission

"This imaginary Phoenicia entered historiography and
cartography as a reality, not only in France but also in the
Ottoman Realm, then the sovereign entity over the Levant.
The toponym was used, anachronistically, for Biblical
maps to refer to the Sidonians and the Tyrians of the Ancient Testament. Already, in the popular Van Dyck-Smith Arabic translation of the Bible, the versions illustrated with maps showed a “Phoenicia” in the time of David and Solomon."

Keilo, J.: Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 9, doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-9-2, 2021.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #Ancient #Phoenicia #Lebanon #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Greeks #RomanEmpire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

doi.orgICA-Proc - Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@troy_frizzell @BurrLand01

exactly

they are parasites

their continued existence depends upon continued violence

when #hamas mass murders, netanyahu wins

when #netanyahu mass murders, hamas wins

caught between the parasites are regular #palestinians #israelis #lebanese. who want to live in peace but are murdered to grow religious, tribal, and extremist madness, and #geopolitical agendas feed the carnage

innocents in the #levant are murdered for the goals of #theofascism and #ethnofascism

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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 Scientists grow ‘lost tree’ mentioned in Bible using mysterious 1,000-year-old seed

“Researchers suspected the “Sheba” tree to be a candidate for the “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Judea”, which was cultivated exclusively in the desert region of southern Levant during Biblical times.”

🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science

#News #Bible #Levant #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons @science @archaeodons

The Independent · Scientists grow ‘lost tree’ mentioned in Bible using mysterious 1,000-year-old seedBy Vishwam Sankaran
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