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Aryan babysitting
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 29, 2021, 2:16 am
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OLD CONTENT
www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/12/24/prehistoric-pa
rents-let-their-babies-teethe-on-these-bone-spoons/
[quote]In the last decade, Sophie the Giraffe has become the
best-selling baby teether on the market, with parents often
gifted more than one of this squeaky toy at their baby shower.
But in the Neolithic period 8,000 years ago, archaeologists have
found that babies were given something a bit different to teethe
on: bone spoons.
...
These experts argue that the spoons “were used for feeding
babies and that marks on them can be connected to the usual
mouthing behavior [biting, nibbling, gnawing, and pulling] of
children who may, up to four years of age, mouth objects up to
50 times during one hour.”
...
In comparing the experimentally-produced tooth marks and the
marks on the Neolithic spoons, Stefanović and colleagues
discovered that “the results clearly suggest that the marks
found on spoons meet the two main criteria to be interpreted as
tooth marks made by children.” Therefore, the main function of
these artifacts was baby-feeding.
...
Experimentally, each bone spoon took approximately 25 hours’
worth of work to produce, so the fact that these spoons are
found at various sites in the Neolithic period suggests “the
appearance of a ‘spoon industry’ for infant feeding,” which is
also “a reflection of the need to feed infants with a new type
of weaning food,” the researchers note.
The bowl-part of these spoons is shallow, which may mean that
babies were eating some type of porridge from them. “Since milk
and cereals were already present when the spoons appeared,”
Stefanović and colleagues write, “it is plausible that
those were the main ingredients of the new baby food.” If this
porridge were being mass-produced within the community for its
infants, “the appearance of alternative food choices could have
had a profound impact on the whole process of motherhood and
child care in the Neolithic.”
“Ultimately, this new evidence could renew and stimulate the
discussion on the influence of new infant food choices on the
duration of breastfeeding,” the researchers conclude. “Moreover,
it could also trigger a discussion on the possibilities of new
kinds of organization of baby care, given that new,
‘easy-to-prepare’ types of gruel probably allowed other persons
to be involved in baby weaning.”
Whether new mothers received spoons as part of a “Neolithic
motherhood package” the way that many American moms receive
Sophie the Giraffe today may never be known, but this new
research clearly demonstrates that a sharing of care outside of
the mother-baby dyad almost certainly had profound effects on
the survival of children and communities in the Neolithic
period.[/quote]
Several things:
1) Stefanovic is just guessing about milk. (I am sure that
animal milk was added to porridge after racial mixing with
Turanians, but not necessarily before.)
2) I predicted Aryan communal childcare long ago.
3) The availability of porridge would mean removal of selective
pressure against poor female lactation ability (whereas
previously it would have meant malnourished children), thereby
allowing for evolution of lower female sexual dimorphism, which
also fits the Aryan archetype as expected.
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advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaay2169
[quote]Enamel apatite carbon isotope values (δ13Cap) show
significant differences in the M2 between funerary locations
(cf. Fig. 4), consistent with the δ13Cdcol data, and
suggest differences in complementary foods consumed during
weaning and in childhood diet by those interred in caves and in
megalithic graves. This finding is reinforced by divergences in
the shifts between M1 and M2 values, which decrease in caves and
increase in megaliths (cf. fig. S3). The fact that these shifts
are not seen in δ13Cdcol values may reflect the
preferential routing of dietary protein to collagen, which could
mask the importance of plant carbon to the diet; apatite, by
contrast, reflects whole diet (41). Differences in M2
Δ13Cdcol-ap values (cf. fig. S4) suggest greater plant
consumption among megalithic children. Consistent with this,
deciduous dentition shows significantly higher caries prevalence
in megalithic graves than in caves of the region, which has been
interpreted as a result of a more sticky texture and/or higher
sucrose composition for childhood foods, such as gruel
(42).[/quote]
Related:
(HTM) https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-teeth/
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Re: Aryan babysitting
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 21, 2021, 11:58 pm
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(HTM) https://www.finchannel.com/society/business-schools/80601-ancient-dna-hints-at-diverse-stone-age-traditions-of-kinship
[quote]The first villagers in history were Middle Easterners who
adopted a sedentary lifestyle roughly 12,000 years ago. These
people not only built houses, but also buried their dead, young
and old, within and around these buildings, while they continued
living in them.
Although this subfloor burial tradition is well-known, the
underlying social relations among these co-burials have remained
a mystery. Many assumed these burials were biological family
members
...
But not all co-buried individuals had relatives buried in the
same structures.
Professor Baird,, who leads the Boncuklu excavation, notes the
telling case of a perinatal baby in Boncuklu buried together
with a woman with whom she had no biological connection – a good
indicator of social dimensions of kinship in death, as well as
life.
...
In both sites, the researchers successfully obtained DNA mainly
from burials of children, infants, and babies. Intriguingly, in
buildings with large numbers of such sub-adult burials,
biological relationships were markedly rare.
...
“There was no evidence for these children being members of
biological families, nor of extended families.”
...
Senior co-author and former Newton Fellow at the University of
Liverpool, Scott Haddow (University of Copenhagen) said: “But
there is now better reason to suspect that the organizing
principles of these societies went well beyond simple blood
relations.”
[/quote]
I told you so.
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Re: Aryan babysitting
By: guest5 Date: April 22, 2021, 12:25 am
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=438.msg5735#msg5735
date=1619067526]
(HTM) https://www.finchannel.com/society/business-schools/80601-ancient-dna-hints-at-diverse-stone-age-traditions-of-kinship
[quote]The first villagers in history were Middle Easterners who
adopted a sedentary lifestyle roughly 12,000 years ago. These
people not only built houses, but also buried their dead, young
and old, within and around these buildings, while they continued
living in them.
Although this subfloor burial tradition is well-known, the
underlying social relations among these co-burials have remained
a mystery. Many assumed these burials were biological family
members
...
But not all co-buried individuals had relatives buried in the
same structures.
Professor Baird,, who leads the Boncuklu excavation, notes the
telling case of a perinatal baby in Boncuklu buried together
with a woman with whom she had no biological connection – a good
indicator of social dimensions of kinship in death, as well as
life.
...
In both sites, the researchers successfully obtained DNA mainly
from burials of children, infants, and babies. Intriguingly, in
buildings with large numbers of such sub-adult burials,
biological relationships were markedly rare.
...
“There was no evidence for these children being members of
biological families, nor of extended families.”
...
Senior co-author and former Newton Fellow at the University of
Liverpool, Scott Haddow (University of Copenhagen) said: “But
there is now better reason to suspect that the organizing
principles of these societies went well beyond simple blood
relations.”
[/quote]
I told you so.
[/quote]
Wow! Fascinating!!!
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Re: Aryan babysitting
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 27, 2021, 12:21 am
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(HTM) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5105559.pdf
[quote]Health and the Experience of Childhood in Late Neolithic
VietNam
...
in many agricultural societies children are cared for by other
children (Zeller 1987), thus freeing the time of parents and
other adult caregivers for other tasks.
...
children could be raised in a world of children, take care of
other children and contribute to society through child
labour"(Lilleham-mer 2000:23).
...
Children clearly participate "in social and economic life"
(SofaerDerevenski 2000:11) and are not simply passive and
dependent consumers. Substantive economic contributions can
begin as early as 3 years of age, although the period between 6
and 10 years appears to be more common (Zeller1987). An 8- to
9-year-old child might conceivably be seen as an accomplished
craftsperson, if aspects of his/her economic prowess are being
observed here.[/quote]
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