PRE-ALCOHOLIC PEOPLES

Insights from paleomicrobiology into the indigenous peoples of pre-colonial America - A Review

This review investigates ancient infectious diseases in the Americas dated to the pre-colonial period and considers what these findings can tell us about the history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It gives an overview, but focuses on four microbial pathogens from this period: Helicobacter pylori, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Trypanosoma cruzi and Coccidioides immitis, which cause sto...

Canada’s First Peoples

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

Genes, peoples and languages.

The genetic history of a group of populations is usually analyzed by reconstructing a tree of their origins. Reliability of the reconstruction depends on the validity of the hypothesis that genetic differentiation of the populations is mostly due to population fissions followed by independent evolution. If necessary, adjustment for major population admixtures can be made. Dating the fissions re...

The Peoples Republic of Monsters

Free All Monsters is a location-based game that turns a players iPhone into a Magic Monstervision Machine through which they can spot invisible monsters lurking in our city streets. The game draws upon Lefebvre’s concept of ‘the right to the city’ by encouraging the appropriation of the everyday space in which the game is played. It achieves this by presenting players with lusory goals anchored...