Jason Meade

The Cognitive Architecture of Type A: Behavioral Patterns, Sensory Ecology, and Deception in the Folklore of Robust Archaic Hominins

The Cognitive Architecture of Type A: Behavioral Patterns, Sensory Ecology, and Deception in the Folklore of Robust Archaic Hominins Description This manuscript presents a systematic synthesis of the cognitive architecture and behavioral ecology of the "Type A" morphotype—a robus...

Addendum: The Cherokee Stone Coat Narrative and the Lithic- Debitage Protocol

This is a further addendum to the separate Stone Coat paper uploaded to Zenodo.

The Chud Tradition in Finno-Ugric and Russian Folklore: An Ethnographic Case Study for the Hominin Mythology Project

This paper presents an ethnographic summary of the Chud tradition — a legendary small-statured, underground-dwelling population from the folklore of Finno-Ugric peoples (Komi-Permyaks, Komi-Zyrians) and Russian settlers of Northern Eurasia. The synthesis draws on Komi-Permyak, Ru...

The Chud Tradition in Finno-Ugric and Russian Folklore: An Ethnographic Case Study for the Hominin Mythology Project

This paper presents an ethnographic summary of the Chud tradition — a legendary small-statured, underground-dwelling population from the folklore of Finno-Ugric peoples (Komi-Permyaks, Komi-Zyrians) and Russian settlers of Northern Eurasia. The synthesis draws on Komi-Permyak, Ru...

The Stone Coat Protocol: Global Folklore of Lithic-Armored Entities as a Signature of Robust Archaic Hominins

This preprint presents a systematic analysis of the global "stone man" / lithic-armored entity motif in world folklore, conducted as part of the Hominin Mythology Project (OSF: https://osf.io/mdb84/). Using the Berezkin thematic classification database, North American ethnographi...