It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy," said Daniel Contreras, Ph.D., an anthropological archaeologist at UF and co-author ...

The results showed that the Qing Dynasty (1636 to 1912 CE) had over half of the total porpoise poetry, with 477 poems mentioning the Yangtze finless porpoise. The Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 CE ...

It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy," said Daniel Contreras, Ph.D., an anthropological archaeologist at UF and co-author ...

“It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy.” Ancient Hallucinogens and the Chavín People Snuff tubes carved from hollow bones and ...

But ants are more than just social creatures; they are eusocial. Eusociality represents the highest level of social behavior. Termites are eusocial insects that build massive and complex mounds where ...

“It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy.” They’re known as the Chavín, and they thrived between roughly 1200 and 500 B ...

1 This reduced caste, previously a more fluid and situational social phenomenon, to a rigid, inherited identity. The census became the primary vehicle through which this rigidification was ...