Sturgeon Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Oldest strain of plague found, 5,000 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted January 8, 2019 Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 A temple of Xipetotec, the Flayed Lord, has been found in Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted January 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 59 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: A temple of Xipetotec, the Flayed Lord, has been found in Mexico. Why does the Flayed Lord look like Feels Good man? Mogensthegreat and Lord_James 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 https://www.foxnews.com/science/extinct-human-species-lived-together-in-siberian-cave-new-research-shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinction-asteroid.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR2I4LZt5PKqNWhBEnm3kTigEWf26fG4T2fTHjH9RGVYUdSZ49tObjaQ-QA Looks like a direct fossil record of the Chicxlub impact has been found in the Dakotas. "In the deposit, the team discovered an ancient freshwater pond whose occupants had been quickly cemented together by waves of sediment and debris. The fossils include sturgeon and six-foot-long paddlefish, their scales intact but their bodies ripped and smashed; marine mollusks; leaves and tree fronds, and the burned trunks of trees. The fish carcasses were not bloated, decayed, or scavenged, suggesting that they were buried quickly — and that few animals were left alive after the cataclysm to come digging. The fossil deposit also teems with tektites, tiny glass beads that are the telltale fallout of planetary-scale impacts. Fifty percent of the fossilized fish were found with tektites in their gills, as if the fish had inhaled the material. Also recovered were tektites trapped in amber. Their chemical composition was unchanged in 66 million years, and it closely matched the unique chemical signature of other tektites associated with the Chicxulub event." Collimatrix and Lord_James 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted June 20, 2019 Report Share Posted June 20, 2019 Predecessor cultures to the PIEs realized how handy horses were in helping one kill all the folks. "From the functional point of view, according to the sum of the data, there is no reason to doubt that in the eastern zone the horse is already present in the Late Neolithic period. Since its domestication and the emergence of a specialized horse breeding, it has been also widely used for meat, milk and dairy products (including the traditional hippace tradition of the later Scythians), and since the beginning of the early Eneolithic for transport and for riding purposes. Another thing is the horse as a means of war, a means of distant travel and expansion. The beginning of the use of a horse for these purposes, in the opinion of the author, is determined by the appearance of social symbolism in the form of horse-head scepters, and is most fully reflected in the memories of the Khvalynsk culture and, in particular, the Novodanilovka type. Concerning western or Caucasian cultural zones related to Khvalynsk, the horse is thought to have been linked to the eastern region, used mainly for riding, as a means of transport and for communication, which, however, does not exclude its use for meat." "We already had in 2016 a Samara hunter-gatherer sample dated ca. 5600 BC, representative of EHG ancestry, of haplogroup R1b1a. We also had three early Khvalynsk samples from Samara Eneolithic dated ca. 4600 BC, with a drift towards (what we believe now is) a population from the Caucasus, showing haplogroups Q1a, R1a1(xM198), and R1b1a, the last one described in its paper as from a high-status burial, similar to high-status individuals buried under kurgans in later Yamna graves (of R1b-L23 lineages), and therefore likely a founder of an elite group of patrilineally-related families, while the R1a1 sample showed scarce decoration, and does not belong to the M417 lineage expanded later in Sredni Stog or Corded Ware." "We have seen this problem arise in Bell Beaker samples expanding all over Europe, turning from a fully Yamnaya-like population to something else entirely in different regions, from more EEF-like to more CWC-like, sharing one common trait: Y-DNA. We are seeing the same happen with Balkan groups and Mycenaeans, with Old Hittites, and with steppe MLBA from Andronovo peoples expanding over Central and South Asia, and we know that patrilineal clans and thus Y-chromosome bottlenecks were common after Neolithisation, especially with nomadic pastoralist steppe clans (and probably also with many previous population expansions)." Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 Just a nice series of historical videos: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 13, 2021 Report Share Posted July 13, 2021 https://razib.substack.com/p/here-be-humans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffster Posted September 8, 2021 Report Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 1/8/2019 at 12:47 AM, Donward said: Why does the Flayed Lord look like Feels Good man? It feels good for him, not the flayee(?). I think he looks like the Feels good guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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