CARTA: Body Modification - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, i...
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20 of 100 episodesCARTA: Lip Plates in Ethiopia with Shauna LaTosky
In the literature on lip plates in Southern Ethiopia there has been a strong emphasis on their socio-cultural importance and little informat...
CARTA: The Recent History of Piercing Practices in Europe and North America with Paul King
Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archeological record. However, the varying procedures and proce...
CARTA: Permanent Body Modification in Mesoamerica and Central America with Rosemary Joyce
Archaeological research in Mexico and Central America reveals insights into cultural practices, focusing on the history of body modification...
CARTA: Female and Male Genital Modification with Ellen Gruenbaum
This talk offers an overview of the many forms of permanent genital modifications embedded in human cultures, where they occur, the reasons...
CARTA: Dental Ablation and Facial Piercing in Late Pleistocene Southwestern Asia and Africa with John Willman
Bioarchaeological studies of Pleistocene populations, examining practices like tooth ablation, facial piercing, and cranial modification, co...
CARTA: Permanent Body Modification: Archaeological and Early Historical Evidence with Brea McCauley
Today, permanent body modification (PBM) is very popular. Studies suggest that well over a billion living people have experienced one or mor...
CARTA: A Multistep Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalization of the Human Body with Francesco d'Errico
Our ability to adapt our bodies to culture has ancient origins. We suggest a timeline for how the culturalization of the human body evolved,...
CARTA: Body Modification - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, i...
CARTA: The Recent History of Tattooing in Europe and North America with Matt Lodder
This talk presents a new account of the development of professional tattooing in Britain and America since the late 19th century. Research b...
CARTA: Footbinding: A Gene-Culture Co-evolutionary Approach to a One Thousand Year Tradition with Ryan Nichols
This talk explores the 1000-year practice of "footbinding" in ethnically Han Chinese families, involving modifying young girls' feet by wrap...
CARTA: CompAnth - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our close...
CARTA: CompAnth - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our close...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Language: Uniqueness Out of the Ordinary with Eva Wittenberg
Human language is a strong contender for the title of most often named species-specific feature in the literature. But why is that? In this...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Did Humans Evolve Concealed Ovulation? with Pascal Gagneux
Human ovulation lacks visible signs, unlike chimpanzees and bonobos with conspicuous genital swellings during fertility. This led to the con...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Shorter Inter-birth Intervals in Humans with Corinna Most
Life history theory suggests that inter-birth intervals (IBIs) depend on a trade-off between maternal investment in current and future offsp...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Insight into Human-specific Adaptations to High Altitude with Tatum Simonson
High-altitude adaptation stands out as one of the most notable examples of evolution within our species. Despite similar challenges of decre...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - How Special are Our Neanderthal Genes? with Andrew Schork
The human genome contains segments of DNA with non-human origins. This introgressed genetic material is remnants of mating events between ea...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Social Complexity: Why Modern Humans are More Like Ants Than Chimpanzees with Mark Moffett
The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of c...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Ethnology as a Tool for Understanding Human Evolution with Mark Collard
Ethnology, also known as cross-cultural analysis or comparative anthropology, involves comparing features of historically documented human s...