Archeology

[cory]

Got this brief article here, dint know where to post it, maybe we need a new thread for it?

Back to the Stone Age: 17 Key Milestones in Paleolithic Life

The Stone Age may not have been "The Flintstones," but there were definitely caveman qualities to it.

www.livescience.com

 

[gf beranek]

That site has more click bait than I care to click. It's all interesting. Keep scrolling and more just keep coming up. far reaching into all realms.

The images are nice.

 

[cory]

I didn't really notice any clickbait, I just stayed with the article, but yeah, click bait is trash

 

[Tree09]

Ad blockers are kewl

 

[pantheraba]

Well-written article. Good share.

 

[gf beranek]

It was good. Loved the images and the writing.

Maybe it's my browser, because every paragraph in the article is broken up by a bunch of ads longer than the article itself. Makes it difficult to read and appreciate the content.

Other than that it was alright. and looks like there could be more good things in the future. Thanks for sharing, Cory

 

[cory]

I guess the thing I find so fascinating about archaeology is, let's say mankind had not made such astounding, seemingly magical progress in the last few hundred years, it would still be fascinating to see how our ancestors lived 5k, 50k, 500k years ago.

But given that modern life is so radically different in so many ways compared to life a thousand and more years ago, it makes the study of ancient human life even more fascinating in that how we survived back then and how it led to us getting where we are today.

Things like the iPhone, steel, glass, rubber, food production/distribution, electricity, the ICE, pavement, they all blow my mind even though they are a bedrock part of everyday life.

Lol, this is probably why anybody likes archaeology, but just saying.

 

[vharrison]

What I found so interesting about being in London and Paris is how old the buildings were. The architecture was beautiful but what struck me was that they were so old, old and still standing strong. I can only speak to the structures I see, but they are crap compared to London and Paris. Like disposable crap, not built to last centuries. That’s a shame.

 

[cory]

Scientists, with their big azz machines, determine the daily life and times of a mastodon 17k y ago, in present day Alaska. It died at age 28 of starvation

Ice Age mammoth’s life story reconstructed in stunning detail

For the first time, scientists have translated the chemicals in an ancient tusk to reveal a prehistoric biography of unprecedented richness.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[lxskllr]

That was pretty interesting. They made it sound relatively easy, but I bet it was long tedious work getting the data sorted and interpreted.

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

Asteroid Discovery Suggests Origin Of Life on Earth Came From Space » Explorersweb

New evidence supports the theory that microorganisms rode a space rock and set up residence on Earth billions of years ago.

explorersweb.com

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe I'm too dumb to understand exactly what they're saying, but didn't everything come from space? I don't find it unusual at all that precursors to life were found on an asteroid. That asteroid came from the same place earth did. That stuff's all over the place.

 

[stikine]

Here's some local archeology.

The Mystery of This Petroglyph-Covered Alaskan Beach

The 8,000-year-old rock carvings were likely created by the Tlingit

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[gf beranek]

"I don't find it unusual at all that precursors to life were found on an asteroid. That asteroid came from the same place earth did. That stuff's all over the place."

Thank you. That's my feelings, too. The scientists were saying the same thing in the 60s when I was in school. All theory, of course. Intuitively, I also believe life abounds throughout the universe.

 

[gf beranek]

That scroll design was popular in most ancient civilizations lexicon of petroglyphs. See the same thing on prominent rocks and outcrops in my neck of the woods. It says something.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I like the idea that we are made of star dust. And that someday, we will be that again.

 

[gf beranek]

Yep.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, the scroll is a basic form. I thought it looked like early Celtic art. Really though, it probably looks like all early art.

 

[Mellow]

"We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon." ~CSN&Y

 

[cory]

DNA 'Time Travel': Elk Pendant Absorbed Woman's Genes 20,000 Years Ago » Explorersweb

For the first time, scientists have discovered a method of identifying a specific person by DNA gleaned from a prehistoric artifact.

explorersweb.com

 

[lxskllr]

I was recently reading an article on the fall of Malta's civilization, and it included this graphic...

Why a Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4,000 Years Ago

Malta’s lost civilisation only lasted 1,500 years but it produced some of the oldest buildings still standing today.

getpocket.com

The pendant predates the lower bounds of the graphic by about the same amount the graphic lower bounds predates us. That's a long friggin' time ago.

 

[gf beranek]

And to think there's probably older ruins elsewhere, buried or long blown away across the winds of time.

Really interesting stuff, archeology. Fascinating even.

 

[cory]

It sure is.

 

[Nutball]

I was recently reading an article on the fall of Malta's civilization, and it included this graphic...

Why a Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4,000 Years Ago

Malta’s lost civilisation only lasted 1,500 years but it produced some of the oldest buildings still standing today.

getpocket.com

The pendant predates the lower bounds of the graphic by about the same amount the graphic lower bounds predates us. That's a long friggin' time ago.

I wonder how they figure the wall of Jericho being that old?