And also humans 500k years ago: we didn't start the fire either
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Catoblepas - 1day
Chris Stringer, a human evolution specialist at the Natural History Museum, said fossils from Britain and Spain suggest the inhabitants of Barnham were early Neanderthals whose cranial features and DNA point to growing cognitive and technological sophistication.
Neat!
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DeceasedPassenger @lemmy.world - 1day
This is huge for the potential of literal "pre-historic" civilization. Of course it's completely hypothetical, but this discovery gives it at least some actual potential. Just kinda incredible to think what could've existed. Plastic degrades in roughly 600 years at the long end. It's a tall order to make a building that will last for 10,000 (doomsday seed vault). What was lost in the library of Alexandria? How much of our own history did we actually know in the past?
Unfortunately I think these questions and similar ones (impossible without an answer) will haunt me until the day I die.
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sachamato @lemmy.world - 24hr
Idont know much about those questions. But I can feel your passion from here and it's energizing!
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Boomer Humor Doomergod - 1day
And they didn’t even need a volleyball to help them
throws_lemy in anthropology
Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/study-finds-humans-making-fire-400000-years-ago-128285400humans 50k years ago: we didn't start the fire
It was always burning
since the world's been turning
And also humans 500k years ago: we didn't start the fire either
Neat!
This is huge for the potential of literal "pre-historic" civilization. Of course it's completely hypothetical, but this discovery gives it at least some actual potential. Just kinda incredible to think what could've existed. Plastic degrades in roughly 600 years at the long end. It's a tall order to make a building that will last for 10,000 (doomsday seed vault). What was lost in the library of Alexandria? How much of our own history did we actually know in the past?
Unfortunately I think these questions and similar ones (impossible without an answer) will haunt me until the day I die.
Idont know much about those questions. But I can feel your passion from here and it's energizing!
And they didn’t even need a volleyball to help them