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		<title>About that 130,000 y.o. Human Occupation in California</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/02/about-that-130000-human-occupation-in-california/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A claim is being made, in a recent issue of Nature Magazine, that humans were active in the vicinity of San Diego well over 100,000 years before archaeologists think humans were even in the New World. Most commentary on this claim dismisses it out of hand, but out of hand rejections are no better than &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/02/about-that-130000-human-occupation-in-california/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">About that 130,000 y.o. Human Occupation in California</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I ate a Pangolin</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/28/why-i-ate-a-pangolin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Ethnography]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Lese people practice swidden horticulture in the Ituri Forest, Congo (formerly Zaire). Living in the same area are the Efe people, sometimes known as Pygmies (but that may be an inappropriate term). The Efe and Lese share a culture, in a sense, but are distinct entities within that culture, as distinct as any people &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/28/why-i-ate-a-pangolin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why I ate a Pangolin</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great Human Race: How to survive</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/26/the-great-human-race-how-to-survive/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efe Ethnoarchaeology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Great Human Race is a new production of National Geographic, in three parts. I recently viewed the first episode, &#8220;Dawn&#8221; which comes with this description: All people can trace their roots to the savanna of East Africa, the home of one of the first members of the human species &#8212; Homo habilis. Archaeologist Bill &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/26/the-great-human-race-how-to-survive/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Great Human Race: How to survive</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Are Nomads Not Really Nomads? (Efe Pygmy Ethnoarchaeology)</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/16/efe-pygmy-land-use-nomadism/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“First, we’re going to collect our data,” Jack, the archaeologist, was telling me as we slogged down the narrow overgrown path. He seemed annoyed. “Then, we’ll leave. Until we leave, they won’t leave. They think it would be rude. After they leave, we’ll go back and map in the abandoned camp.” I had just arrived &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/16/efe-pygmy-land-use-nomadism/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">When Are Nomads Not Really Nomads? (Efe Pygmy Ethnoarchaeology)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Meat Eating in Human Prehistory</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/20/meat-eating-in-human-prehistory/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[All human hunter-gatherer groups that have been studied incorporate meat in their diets. Studies have shown that the total dietary contribution of meat varies a great deal, and seems to increase with latitude so that foragers in subarctic and arctic regions eat a lot of meat while those living near the equator eat less. It &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/20/meat-eating-in-human-prehistory/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Meat Eating in Human Prehistory</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>King Leopold’s Soliloquy</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/28/king-leopolds-soliloquy-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I first became aware of, and read, King Leopold&#8217;s Soliloquy, which is not his soliloquy but a parody of what he might say according to Samuel Clemens, while doing fieldwork in the ex-Belgian Congo. That is where the real story that inspired the essay took place. I lived in an area that at one time &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/28/king-leopolds-soliloquy-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">King Leopold’s Soliloquy</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is it appropriate to use the term &#034;Pygmy&#034; when speaking of&#8230;Pygmies?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/05/is-it-appropriate-to-use-the-term-pygmy-when-speaking-of-pygmies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of the people who live in the rain forest of Central Africa are known widely as &#8220;Pgymies.&#8221; That word&#8230;Pygmy&#8230;is considered problematic for a few different reasons. It refers to a person&#8217;s physical appearance, because it means &#8220;small.&#8221; The word is sometimes used in biology to refer to the smaller species among a group of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/05/is-it-appropriate-to-use-the-term-pygmy-when-speaking-of-pygmies/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is it appropriate to use the term &#34;Pygmy&#34; when speaking of&#8230;Pygmies?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Selected Posts about the Efe and the Congo</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/selected-posts-about-the-efe-a/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A compendium of selected posts written about the Ituri Forest, the Efe Pygmies, and other folks and other things in the region: In the matter of insects: No Place to Sit Down The reason the Efe won&#8217;t normally kill an insect &#8230; &#8220;Excuse me, there&#8217;s some food in my bugs!&#8221; Day of the locust. Yum! &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/selected-posts-about-the-efe-a/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Selected Posts about the Efe and the Congo</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day of the locust. Yum!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/28/day-of-the-locust-yum/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Continuing with the theme of eating insects &#8230; The people of the eastern Congo plant African rice around June so that it will grow through the wettest part of the wet season, and then they harvest it in the &#8220;dry season&#8221; which starts about mid or late November. That is around the same time that &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/28/day-of-the-locust-yum/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Day of the locust. Yum!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Excuse me, there&#8217;s some food in my bugs!&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/22/excuse-me-theres-some-food-in/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speaking of people eating insects &#8230; as we were &#8230; I do have this fun story from the Ituri Forest. One day something funny happened. I was traveling in the most remote part of Central Africa, several days walk from any place you could possibly drive a car, visiting uncharted villages mainly occupied by people &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/22/excuse-me-theres-some-food-in/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;Excuse me, there&#8217;s some food in my bugs!&#8221;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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