Book recommendation: The Falling Sky

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Book recommendation: The Falling Sky

One book we’ve been wanting to recommend for a long time already is this one here: The Falling Sky – Words of a Yanomami Shaman. It has been one of

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Article: Primitive human lived much more recently

Interesting details emerged about homo naledi, who apparently still lived in South Africa as recent as 200,000 – 300,000 years ago. That means he might have coexisted with homo sapiens.

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Article: Evidence of Earliest Human Hunting Found

Apparently there is now evidence supporting the claim that humans started hunting much earlier than previously thought. Archeological findings show that homo erectus already hunted 2 million years ago. This 

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Article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

This article is an exceptionally good example of a short summary of the main arguments against civilization and progress and for primitivism and tribalism. http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race

Infographic: A Truish and Actual History of the World

A great and informative little graphic visualizing the history of modern humans (not the whole world) and the series of ever more complex and profound errors and mistakes we call

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Article: Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture

In contrast to popular opinion, prehistoric hunters didn’t mindlessly hunt megafauna into extinction. Archeologists now found out that many bigger animals went extinct due to a rapid change in climate

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Article: ‘The River is Life’

An interesting, short story by photographer Alice Kohler about the Araweté people in the Amazon basin, who find themselves being overwhelmed by the approaching influences of civilization and fear they’ll

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Article: Professor Caveman

A college teacher who knows what’s good, fun and important: Bill Schindler teaches primitive skills. Interesting to read, seems like it is not that unrealistic to get people interested in

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Article: Neanderthal dental tartar reveals plant-based diet – and drugs

In contrast to popular opinion, neanderthals were not the stupid, club-swinging brutes we are told they were, but they had a sophisticated culture, were among the first humans of whom

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Book: My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

Part of the Ismael trilogy Vol. 1 – Ishmael Vol. 2 – The Story of B Vol. 3 – My Ismael