For Those Interested in Archaeology

That would be my guess, for want of a better one. Just seems to be the latest in a long line of theories.

 

In Egypt they just have found a 3,000 years old City which is considered the most famous found since Tutankhamon grave. It is called Aten, and belongs to the Amenhotep III time. More in BBC web pages. It is the biggest ancient City found in Egyptian history.

 

Yeah, saw that. What an amazing find-
In Photos: Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announces discovery of 3000-year-old 'Lost Golden City' in Luxor - Ancient Egypt - Heritage

 

Would love to be there even as a fly on the wall..

 

deja view, all over again...
when my son was born, i watched over him while ma recuperated. ..late nights listening to art bell interviewing zahi...art has an amazing legacy.

 

Always thought of mass extinctions being instant?
"The worst mass extinction event in the history of the Earth, 252 million years ago, took ten times longer on land than it did in the water, according to a new study.
Known as the End-Permian mass extinction or 'The Great Dying', it saw as much as 97 per cent of species that leave a fossil record disappear forever.
Chicago's Field Museum scientists studied fossils of 588 animals alive towards the end of the mass extinction in what is now South Africa's Karoo Basin.
The extinction was the result of massive volcanic eruptions that caused catastrophic climate change, killing off the vast majority of animal species on the Earth.
In the new study researchers found that while extinctions happened rapidly in the oceans, life on land underwent a longer, more drawn-out period of extinctions.
The team say it took about 100,000 years to kill life in the oceans as the waters quickly adapt to higher levels of carbon dioxide, but it took up to a million years on land to kill off species as the changes were slower and more subtle."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9487431/Earths-biggest-mass-extinction-took-TEN-times-longer-land-water.html

 

Hmmm...a million years of climate change? A million years of volcanic dust in the atmosphere? A million years of dust in the atmosphere from a comet hit?

 

And then they cover themselves by saying they don't know why it took so long.

 

"A study that appeared today on Current Biology sheds new light on the continental migrations which shaped the genetic background of all present Europeans.
The research generates new ancient DNA evidence and direct dating from a fragmentary fossil mandible belonging to an individual who lived ~17,000 years ago in northeastern Italy (Riparo Tagliente, Verona). The results backdate by about 3,000 years the diffusion in Southern Europe of a genetic component linked to Eastern Europe/Western Asia previously believed to have spread westwards during later major warming shifts.
“By looking into the past of this particular individual, who was one of the first settlers of the southern Alps after the Last Glacial peak, we found evidence that the previously documented genetic replacement which changed the makeup of Southern European Hunter Gatherers started at least 17,000 years ago,” said lead author Eugenio Bortolini (University of Bologna), “much earlier than we previously thought, and in a very different scenario”."
www.heritagedaily.com/2021/04/recolonisation-of-europe-after-the-last-ice-age-started-earlier-than-previously-thought/138784

 

Still a long way to go here IMO...Looking to Asia won't answer some genetic questions...there were no "white" people in Asia...But might have given us the more "refined" facial features...small nose and lips for example. Then of course, the Neanderthals influence...I've said before "we are a proud mongrel race". It also should be noted that there are as many as 7 different "white" peoples or Caucasians...So one story may not be the same as another's.

 

The belief for Finns today is that ancestor people left Siberia and at one point one Half left to north, Finland, and the other Half went south, today's Hungary.

 

Oh Hell aye, at least-
"Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one."
Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One. Did We Kill The Rest?

 

Correction. Did Stalin kill the rest??

 

The best phenotype wins. Not the genotype. The fly has 11 genes, we have some 20+. Not a lot.

 

Amazing.
"Hundreds of stone tools that were crafted by homo erectus and discovered in a gold mine in the Sahara desert are believed to be up to a million years old.
The trove of hominid artifacts were uncovered by miners in northeastern Sudan.
They include almond-shaped cleavers and hand axes with a transverse cutting edge.
Archaeologists theorize the site was a workshop of sorts, because stone flakes formed during their production were also preserved.
It's believed to be the oldest confirmed example of tool manufacturing in the Eastern Sahara with a well-confirmed chronology.
The prehistoric 'tool shed' was uncovered in an abandoned gold mine about 45 miles east of the city of Atbara in the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR) area.
A gold rush in the eastern Sahara has led to numerous open-pit mines being excavated, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity to examine exposed layers of sediment."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9513341/Hundreds-stone-tools-used-homo-erectus-million-years-ago-discovered-abandoned-Sahara-mine.html

And there are so many good stories here today, I'll just post the page link-
Archaeologica - Home

 

Interesting, but needs a lot more research.
"SCIENTISTS are excited today (April 29) to reveal the discovery of an evolutionary "missing link" - a billion-year-old fossil that could help bridge the gap between single-celled organisms and more complex animals.
A team of international scientists from the UK and US unveiled their discovery today in the journal Current Biology. The billion-year-old microfossil, which was found in the Scottish Highlands, contains two distinct types of cells and may very well be the oldest multicellular animal on record. The "missing link" sheds new light on the origins of complex life, particularly between single-celled holozoa and more complex animals like sponges.
The term holozoa describes all living things - exclusive fungi - that include animals and some of their single-celled cousins.
A well-known example are the Choanoflagellates - single-celled critters believed to be the closest living relatives of animals.
The microfossil discovered by researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK and Boston College in the US belonged to an organism somewhere between single-celled and multicellular animals.
The scientists have officially named their discovery Bicellum Brasieri."
www.express.co.uk/news/science/1429260/missing-link-billion-year-old-fossil-bicellum-brasieri-evolution-complex-animals-evg