<![CDATA[Grey Goose Chronicles: Publication & Book Reviews]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/s/publication-and-book-reviewshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j-QR!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51396bd6-ea40-4fe9-ad48-5b3f5513faf5_410x410.pngGrey Goose Chronicles: Publication & Book Reviewshttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/s/publication-and-book-reviewsSubstackSun, 19 Apr 2026 00:02:24 GMT<![CDATA[Book Review: Infantilised, How Our Culture Killed Adulthood]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/book-review-infantilised-how-ourhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/book-review-infantilised-how-ourTue, 08 Oct 2024 15:04:35 GMTInfantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood. Keith Hayward. 2024

“By now it should be clear that infantilisation is a ubiquitous element of contemporary culture. It manifests itself in everyday ver…

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]]><![CDATA[Breakdown: Ancient European Genetics Papers of 2024 - Part One]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-ancient-european-geneticshttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-ancient-european-geneticsWed, 14 Feb 2024 15:24:16 GMTIt’s only February and already there are more genetics papers than I can comfortably review and digest. In fact there are so many I need to split this up and write multiple articles. So for Part One …

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]]><![CDATA[Christmas Book Ideas & Reading List 2024]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/christmas-book-ideas-and-readinghttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/christmas-book-ideas-and-readingThu, 14 Dec 2023 11:58:48 GMTReading list ideas and guides into anthropology/archaeology are two queries that people most often send me. Something like “I’m a beginner but I want to learn about unusual tribes, where do I begin?”…

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]]><![CDATA[ Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: October]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-october-e93https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-october-e93Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:38:00 GMTWelcome to another monthly round-up of all the best archaeological news from October. This time there is a theme, a Palaeolithic special, since so many crucial new papers came out about early prehist…

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]]><![CDATA[Breakdown - How Your Ancestry Affects You Today ( Pankratov et al 2023)]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-how-your-ancestry-affectshttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-how-your-ancestry-affectsMon, 09 Oct 2023 09:07:55 GMTAn interesting preprint was circulated around Twitter/X recently, one which might have some fascinating revelations about how your European ancestry affects you biologically today. As many people kno…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: September]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-september-b36https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-september-b36Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:56:23 GMTSeptember brought us some incredible new ‘firsts’ and ‘earliests’ - we have languages, cannons, and timber to whet your appetite. We also saw an important revision to a classic Neanderthal burial, re…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: August]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-august-f29https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-august-f29Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:09:41 GMTWelcome back to the monthly round-up, I’ve certainly struggled in the last few months to digest all the news and write it out for you, but we’re back now! August has seen some controversial papers, b…

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]]><![CDATA[Breakdown: Unusual human fossil from Hualongdong, China]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-unusual-human-fossil-fromhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-unusual-human-fossil-fromWed, 09 Aug 2023 14:45:58 GMTMany of you may have seen the news last week of a strange new skull found in China - one which may come to rewrite aspects of the human story. The media reporting has focused on either how this compl…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: April]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-april-4f1https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-april-4f1Tue, 09 May 2023 11:58:41 GMTIt’s been a little while since I published a round-up and plenty has happened. This month I’ve picked a good blend of discoveries, but certainly a theme amongst them is refutation of older narratives…

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]]><![CDATA[Review: Did The Yamnaya Ride Horses?]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/review-did-the-yamnaya-ride-horseshttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/review-did-the-yamnaya-ride-horsesSun, 12 Mar 2023 14:42:38 GMTThe domestication and use of horses as mounts profoundly changed human history. It should really rank alongside agriculture, dairying, blue-water sailing and other major breakthroughs for creating an…

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]]><![CDATA[Breakdown: Two New Genetics Papers On The Upper Palaeolithic And Mesolithic]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-two-new-genetics-papershttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/breakdown-two-new-genetics-papersFri, 03 Mar 2023 14:06:24 GMTAs a one-off interruption from my usual monthly round-up of interesting archaeological finds and papers, I want instead to take a deep dive into two papers, both of which came out yesterday - 01/03/2…

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]]><![CDATA[Book Review: Indigenous Continent, The Epic Contest For North America]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/book-review-indigenous-continenthttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/book-review-indigenous-continentWed, 08 Feb 2023 14:42:58 GMT

The four-hundred-year struggle to keep the continent Indigenous had stretched colonists from the European powers, and then the United States, to the breaking point again and again. The enormous range…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: January]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-januaryhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-januaryTue, 31 Jan 2023 11:51:56 GMTScandinavian Genetics: Rome to Today

A wide-ranging genetic study from Scandinavia has revealed some curious migration waves in the Viking and Medieval periods. Using 48 new genomes, 249 published gen…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: December]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-decemberhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-decemberFri, 06 Jan 2023 14:10:54 GMTDecember saw a good mix of discoveries, ranging from ancestral fire production to medieval diseases, from Hunnic raids to Palaeolithic bear skins. As usual I’ve tried to combine a good blend of metho…

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]]><![CDATA[My Top Ten Books of 2022]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/my-top-ten-books-of-2022https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/my-top-ten-books-of-2022Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:16:17 GMTMy apologies to readers and subscribers for a very low level of December content, I have managed to catch just about every flu and cold doing the rounds. Rest assured I have many articles in the pipe…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: November]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-novemberhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-novemberWed, 07 Dec 2022 13:32:05 GMTWelcome to another monthly round-up of the most important and interesting archaeology for November. Two interesting papers on ancient cooking, from Mesopotamia to the Neanderthals, reveal two unexpec…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: October]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-octoberhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-octoberThu, 03 Nov 2022 09:54:57 GMTThis month had a particularly wide variety of papers and methods, from dental calculus to drone mapping, glass isotopes to machine learning. I think readers will find it interesting to see how modern…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: September]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-septemberhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-septemberThu, 06 Oct 2022 13:40:09 GMTThis month has a good mixture of topics, ranging from animal domestication genetics to modern shipwreck hunting. I’ve tried to include a number of evolving techniques in isotope analysis, metallurgy,…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: August]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-augusthttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-augustThu, 01 Sep 2022 13:55:48 GMTAmong this month’s offerings are grisly Mayan rubber technology, Chinese metallurgy, Bronze Age plagues, a Jewish massacre, the Bantu Expansion and Aboriginal boomerangs. Probably the biggest publica…

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]]><![CDATA[Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: July]]>https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-julyhttps://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/monthly-archaeology-round-up-julyWed, 03 Aug 2022 07:00:08 GMTThe summer months are traditionally excavation season, so news of finds and discoveries are dominating the headlines, including lost cities, fossils and shipwrecks. Behind this are the increasingly c…

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