Akkadium College

30/04/2026

24/01/2026

Liang Metanduno cave on Muna, a tropical island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, is filled with prehistoric paintings, but one stands out in particular—a claw-like hand stencil that's at least 67,800 years old. Archaeologists, including National Geographic Explorer Maxime Aubert, believe the stencil is the oldest rock art attributed to modern humans and doesn't just reveal insights into early human intelligence, but prehistoric life in the Indonesian archipelago, and migration to Australia too.

Discover more about Liang Metanduno's cave paintings and what they mean: https://on.natgeo.com/3LVivGK

24/11/2025

Check out RARI postdoc Andrew Skinner's THREE 2025 articles, and there's more to come ...

Phenomenological effects of brain function lateralisation contribute to Animism's prevailing sensory metaphor
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392267772_Phenomenological_effects_of_brain_function_lateralisation_contribute_to_Animism's_prevailing_sensory_metaphor

An unsettled theory of mind
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391894236_An_unsettled_theory_of_mind

Identity Through Iteration: Secondary Imagemaking Practices as Expressions of Cultural Continuity, Change and Interpretation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390615417_Identity_Through_Iteration_Secondary_Imagemaking_Practices_as_Expressions_of_Cultural_Continuity_Change_and_Interpretation_in_the_Rock_Art_of_Southern_Africa

20/02/2025

Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month “Seeing other Q***r people in medicine inspires me to be my whole self within the practice – it’s so important to see other people like you in the same space.” Cate is a fifth-year medical student who identifies as Q***r and uses they/them pronouns. They are ...

09/07/2024

Very excited to announce that my online course ‘Anthropology Applied’ is running again at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education from October. Enrolment now open!

https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/anthropology-applied?code=O24P701AHZ

“In this course we will explore the unique and vital contribution of applied anthropology in helping to examine and address some of the major global challenges of our time. Drawing from real-world case studies we will investigate a range of critical issues, from sustainable development and population displacement to public health and natural disasters. We will learn how an integrated understanding of underlying social and cultural dynamics can dramatically influence the success or failure of interventions and outcomes, tipping a delicate balance between preservation or loss, prosperity or poverty, peace or conflict, life or death.”