architektura: Childhood nudity

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Childhood nudity is the state of being in which a prepubescent human is without clothing or not clothed according to social norms. Very young children, not having learned such norms, and having no modesty, may remove their clothing seeking comfort or as part of play. In contemporary societies, attitudes toward children being unclothed in various situations are controversial and greatly differ worldwide depending upon conceptions of childhood innocence and child sexuality. Societies may regard public childhood nudity before puberty as normal, as acceptable in particular situations such as same-sex groups, or unacceptable. Until approximately 12,000 years ago, all humans were hunter-gatherers…

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Hunter-Gatherers of the Nile Valley and the Sahara Before 12,000 Years Ago

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Hunter-Gatherers of the Maghreb 25,000–6,000 Years Ago

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Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa Before 20,000 Years Ago

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Mediterranean hunter-gatherers voyaged across the open sea 8500 years ago

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Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece.. Sociocultural niche construction is a key mechanism behind the current planetary crisis. Its causal drivers in past societies remain poorly understood due to a lack of data and modeling complexities. Here, we apply a Bayesian machine learning algorithm to a geospatial quantitative dataset compiled from 15 th -16 th c. CE Ottoman taxation registers, to explore shifts in drivers of land use choices in village communities in southern Greece. Greek and Albanian communities living within the same landscape experienced a transition from unstable political conditions and limited commodification of agriculture to last…

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Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. Ecologism is a term more commonly used in continental European languages, while environmentalism is more commonly used in English, but the words have slightly different connotations. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate, and may be referred to as a movement to con…