CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)
Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 672
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
CARTA: The Architecture of Informality with Kristine Stiphany
This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo …
00:20:15 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
CARTA: Göbekli Tepe with Ricarda Braun
The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increasingly gave way to the more permanent settlement o…
00:17:55 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
CARTA: Deep Time Evolution of the Indigenous Peoples and Architectures of Australia with Paul Memmott
This presentation will briefly trace 70,000 years of cultural evolution from the ancient crossing from Sunda to Sahul, via the swift continental colonization during the Ice Age, through the severe im…
00:18:22 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
CARTA: How People Learned to Live in Cities with Michael Smith
The transition from Neolithic villages to early cities marked the greatest social transformation faced by our species before the Industrial Revolution. Our ancestors had to learn how to live in new s…
00:18:58 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
CARTA: Evolving the Construction-Ready Brain with Michael Arbib
Humans construct their physical worlds in part by designing and constructing new tools, habitations, and in due course diverse buildings and, in some cases, towns and cities and construct their symbo…
00:20:02 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
CARTA: Combinatorial Technology and the Emergence of the Built Environment with Larry Barham
This talk provides a deep time perspective for assessing the behavioural implications of the creation of the earliest known structure and the technologies used in its making. Evidence for the earlies…
00:20:33 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
CARTA: Bird Nests: Adaptive Variation on Innate Bauplans with Susan Healy
As distinct from the buildings of termites (interesting though these are), bird nests offer a more apropos point of comparison for human buildings – they are conducted by single vertebrate (or a few)…
00:18:21 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
CARTA: How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds - Welcome and Opening Remarks
At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolic…
00:09:17 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
CARTA: Energy in the Balance with Barnabas Calder
Every building – from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house – was influenced by the energy available to its architects. This talk offers a historical perspective o…
00:20:32 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
CARTA: From Cave to Architecture: Settling Down in Southwest Asia with Trevor Watkins
Human "place-making" began over a million years ago when early humans made the hearth the center of social life. By 450,000 years ago, they were using caves in southwest Asia and sometimes buried the…
00:21:29 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
CARTA: Lucy - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Lucy is one of the most famous fossils of all time. The discovery of this species had a major impact on the science of human origins and evolution. Why? What was that impact? The symposium speakers—e…
01:19:19 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
CARTA: Naming Lucy: Taxonomic Reasoning in Paleoanthropology with Andra Meneganzin
The discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old hominin skeleton named Lucy revolutionized human evolutionary studies. Her Linnean classification as Australopithecus afarensis sparked debates on taxonomy, hi…
00:21:03 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
CARTA: Fifty Years Since Lucy’s Discovery: Advances in Scientific Knowledge on Human Origins and the Development of African Paleosciences with Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Lucy, discovered in 1974, revolutionized paleoanthropology, sparking interest in Africa's fossil-rich regions. This led to significant discoveries, pushing human origins records beyond six million ye…
00:23:44 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
CARTA: The First Paleo-Rock Star: Is Lucy Still an Influencer? with Ann Gibbons
Lucy's 50-year legacy as a superstar in human evolution is undeniable. Yet, with newer, older fossils and a growing understanding of her ancient world, her status as our ancestor is questioned. This …
00:21:18 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
CARTA: Lucy African Heritage and ‘Paleodoms’ with Job Kibii
Since Lucy's 1974 discovery, African heritage management and paleoscientific research have evolved significantly. Partnerships with international organizations have supported these efforts, leading t…
00:20:15 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
CARTA: Lucy’s Contribution: Understanding the Sequence of Steps Leading to Human Uniqueness with Kim Hill
Humans are a spectacular outlier among the millions of species of life on planet earth, with incredibly unique biological success. Slowly, scientists have begun to understand the traits that interact…
00:20:49 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
CARTA: Lucy's Legacy and the Past and Future of Primate Research with Melissa Emery Thompson
The connection between paleoanthropology and primatology began with Darwin's theory of human origins. Lucy's discovery challenged existing ideas, coinciding with observations of wild primates. This s…
00:19:42 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
CARTA: How Did Lucy Become a Fossil? Investigating the Life Death and Preservation of a Famous Hominin with Anna Behrensmeyer
Lucy's 1974 discovery reshaped our understanding of early hominins. Geological studies dated her to 3.21 million years ago. Questions arose about her life and death, leading to investigations into he…
00:21:01 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
CARTA: How the Paleo Diet Worked for Lucy-and Led to Us with Jessica Thompson
Lucy's discovery in eastern Africa reshaped human origins research, highlighting our ancestors' diverse habitats. Initially thought vegetarians like chimpanzees, Lucy's group were adaptable omnivores…
00:19:49 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
CARTA: Lucy and Evolution of Hand Dexterity and Tool Use with Tracy Kivell
The discovery of Lucy in 1974 gave insight into early hominin body form but lacked hand bones. Subsequent findings revealed Australopithecus afarensis hand morphology. New discoveries and research si…
00:19:36 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
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