Return of the Anthropology Thread

[Stargrunt6]

 

 

[R011]

2 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

 

 

Scroll down and there's a nice photo of Zelenskyy in a T-shirt celebrating May the 4th.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

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On the basis of computed tomographic scans and geometric morphometric analyses, we analyzed endocranial casts of Homo sapiens fossils (N = 20) from different time periods. Our data show that, 300,000 years ago, brain size in early H. sapiens already fell within the range of present-day humans. Brain shape, however, evolved gradually within the H. sapiens lineage, reaching present-day human variation between about 100,000 and 35,000 years ago.

 

[Stargrunt6]

No lie, she looks just like this Russian girl that I went to college with. 

Edited May 13, 2022 by Stargrunt6

[Stargrunt6]

There are two types of people on TankNet:

1) Those that say they want this dagger.

2) Absolute liars.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11070001/Humans-settled-North-America-17-000-years-EARLIER-previously-believed-study-finds.html
 

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Bones of an adult mammoth and her calf have been uncovered at a 37,000-year-old butchering site in New Mexico, which suggest humans settled in North America 17,000 years than previously believed.

A team of scientists, led by The University of Texas at Austin, extracted collagen from the bones, allowing them to carbon date the settled age of 36,250 to 38,900 years old.

The bones were discovered in a three-foot-tall pile, with 95 percent belonging to the adult, and featured slaughter marks and fractures from blunt force impact

The discovery adds to the growing evidence that there were societies before people crossed the Bering Strait land bridge some 20,000 years ago. The bridge, also called Beringia, connected Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age, and allowed people to come from Asia into North America.

Timothy Rowe, lead author of the study, told DailyMail.com that the ancient humans likely came from Asia, but whether they took a coastal or overland route to the America's remains an open question. A separate study in 2021 found some of the first Americans crossed the Bering Sea in paddle boats, stopping along chain of islands that were above the surface during the last Ice Age.

Previous studies have produced remains of ancient humans dating back 20,000 years ago and other artifact that suggest there were people in the area before Clovis – those who crossed the land bridge. However, the mammoth bones are the earliest evidence found to date.

 

 

[Stargrunt6]

Crossing the Berents in a paddleboat... ballsy.

[JWB]

The Mysterious ‘Fifth Evangelist’ Who Created the Bible as We Know It (msn.com)

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.sciencealert.com/half-a-million-year-old-signs-of-extinct-human-species-found-in-poland-cave
 

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Prehistoric stone tools found in a cave in Poland 50 years ago have just been identified as some of the oldest ever discovered in the region.

The tools from the Tunel Wielki cave in Małopolska are between 450,000 and 550,000 years old. This dating may allow scientists to learn more about the humans who made them, and their migration and habitation in Central Europe across prehistory.

For example, the timeframe likely means that the tools were made by extinct human species Homo heidelbergensis, usually considered the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans (us). And it means the region was inhabited by humans at a time that Central Europe's harsh climate would have required significant physical and cultural adjustment.

 

 

[lucklucky]

Interesting,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapping

[MiloMorai]

Remains of Neanderthal Family, Including Father and His Teenage Daughter, Found in Siberian Cave (msn.com)

The remains of the first known Neanderthal family have been discovered in a Siberian cave.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ai-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome
 

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Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: A teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such odd uniqueness she appeared to be a 'hybrid' ancestor to modern humans that scientists hadn't seen before.

Only recently, researchers have uncovered evidence she wasn't alone. In a 2019 study analyzing the tangled mess of humanity's prehistory, scientists used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify an unknown human ancestor species that modern humans encountered – and shared dalliances with – on the long trek out of Africa millennia ago.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

This is really not what I want added to my origin story;

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-humans-giant-snails-apex-predator.html
 

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Humans are the ultimate apex predators on planet Earth. No matter how large-sized, sharp-toothed, razor-clawed, pointy-horned or venomous a creature may be, humans have hunted it for food. Moreover, according to a study led by the University of the Witwatersrand, they have also done so no matter how slow, small and slimy.

Giant African land snails (Achatinidae) were systematically brought to the Border Cave site in eastern South Africa, roasted and consumed, starting from 170,000 years ago, in a practice that continued for 100,000 years.

 

 

 

[lucklucky]

https://www.science.org/content/article/horse-nations-animal-began-transforming-native-american-life-startlingly-early#:~:text=After the Spanish conquest%2C horses,much earlier than historians thought&text=Scattered across the prairie east,measure barely 2 meters across.

 

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(...)The change, Reed explains, resulted from the introduction of the horse. For millennia, the Pawnee had relied on dogs to haul their belongings on bison hunting trips; when they acquired horses, the impact was immediate and dramatic. “They allowed us to carry more gear, pull more food, have bigger tipis,” Reed says. “It’s so hard to imagine our culture without horses, it boggles your mind.”

For Native peoples on the Great Plains grasslands that stretch from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River, horses took on a central economic and military role, enabling bison hunting on a large scale and raiding across vast distances. “The introduction of this technology, of horses, changed Great Plains cultures,” says Carlton Shield Chief Gover, a member of the Pawnee Nation and an archaeologist at the Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. “It’s the equivalent of the airplane. It shrank the world.” Knowing when that happened is critical, he says. A new study today in Science, of which Shield Chief Gover is a co-author, offers a startling answer.

Centuries ago, the Americas were apparently horseless(...)

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

Horseless? They didn't even have coconuts!

 

[Sardaukar]

What next...eugenics?

[Ivanhoe]

6 hours ago, Sardaukar said:

What next...eugenics?

The impact of the horse on the Comanche tribe did, ironically, result in genocide of other tribes of southwestern America. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-humans-in-europe-started-controlling-fire-far-far-earlier-than-we-thought

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Human history is intimately entwined with the use and control of fire. However, working out when our relationship with fire began and how it subsequently evolved has been notoriously difficult.

This is partly due to the incomplete nature of archaeological records, and also because fire use was fleeting, making burnt remains difficult to detect.

But our team has found evidence of the controlled use of fire by direct human ancestors – or hominins – at a site in Spain dating to 250,000 years ago.

This pushes the earliest evidence of fire control in Europe back by 50,000 years. The findings have been published in Nature Scientific Reports. It is truly special to find the remains of human ancestors and fire at the same location.

 

 

Bottom line; we can begin blaming sunday for Global Warming. 

 

[JWB]

Archaeologists discover a lost world of 417 ancient Mayans cities buried in remote jungle, connected by miles of 'superhighways,' WaPo reports (msn.com)

[Stuart Galbraith]

1700 year old Iron age tunic that was covered in reindeer shit is found in Norway.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/giant-petroglyph-carving-found-hidden-under-moss-in-sweden/147335

 

[JWB]

Ancient toilets unearthed in Jerusalem reveal a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease (msn.com)

[Ivanhoe]

12 hours ago, JWB said:

Ancient toilets unearthed in Jerusalem reveal a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease (msn.com)

They should have been grateful the Romans brought aquaducts and sanitation.

 

[JWB]

Black Death Pathogen Lurked in Britain Millennia Before Plague Struck (msn.com)

[sunday]

On the origin of the Hungarian people. Long but good.