Join Lindsay as she discusses some of the earliest known “women.” Featuring an interview about Paleolithic art with Dr. Nancy Ross.
Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
- Early hominid evolution
- Eagle Ancestors Hunted Early Humans, Skull Study Suggests
- Makapansgat pebble
- Ardi, Oldest Living Human
- PBS: Meet Lucy, the fossil
- Paleolithic Art
- Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland
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This was amazing . I’ve been listening all day. Thank you. Thank you.
Hate to be this person, but this is a big nitpick. The Red Lady was male. He was identified in the field as male, but because he was buried with large amounts of jewelry and other ornimantes, and because the story of a Roman prostitute appealed to William Buckland (who was a creationist, and couldn’t comprehend of bones as old as the Red Lady’s), he was dubbed “The Red Lady”, and the name was never changed.
Of course, we have no reason to believe that he was cisgender.
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml (and lots of other sources)
Anyway, overall, great work on the podcast.
Love it! Thanks for the info. We’ll get it updated.