Rocky Mountain Locusts though, were a real thing. Extinct now for a variety of reasons: https://www.historynet.com/1874-the-year-of-the-locust.htm The death of the Super Hopper: https://www.hcn.org/issues/243/13695
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And here I thought you had a "Pet Theory". Are Honey Badgers pets?
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A lot of lefties in the field of archaeology too. And redheads. A far higher percentage than in the general population.
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> also sapiens didn't evolve from neanderthals Interesting. Back in the Stone Age, when I took Physical Anthropology, Neanderthals were classified as "Homo sapiens neanderthalensis".
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I always thought that it was more of a suggestion from Joe, and didn't become a ban until after they arrived in Utah.
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I always figured that the real reason to ban Coffee, and Tea was that it couldn't be grown in Utah, so all the money being spent on them was heading out of State. Those funds were needed to help support the Theocracy.
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I was truly sorry to hear of Rush's death yesterday..........and not in 1992.
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Here's a link to fluted points in N. America at 13kbp. Of course not all fluted points are Clovis. https://pidba.org/content/fluted.JPG
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That's funny. Bigfoot hunting is illegal in Skamania and Whatcom Counties in Washington.
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<<My analogy here is to the 19th century European colonization of Africa. The Europeans lacked genetic immunity to a lot of sub-Saharan diseases, which meant that a lot of the explorers died and the tropical regions retained their independence much longer than most of the continent. The same would have happened to Beringians as they moved eastward into Amazonia: the mortality rate would hav
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I think that we are pretty much on the same page on these questions. I think that the Beringian Standstill was well established by around 35Kbp, with people starting to venture south by ~22kbp. Given the speed they travelled south along the coasts, they must have had maritime skills as postulated by the Kelp Highway hypothesis. Which I tend to lean towards. Regarding the speed though, it n
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Remember, the American Deserts as we know them today did not exist at the end of the Pleistocene. It was much wetter. The Great Basin contained numerous large shallow lakes. And much of the Sonoran and Mojave desert areas were grasslands/savannah. So they didn't present the obstacle that they do today.
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There is a mini-train like this in Wenatchee (WA) River Front Park. When I was a kid, it was in Saunders Pear Orchard in Peshastin, WA. We would take school trips out there in Grade School, and Mr. Saunders (who built it) would give us all a ride. I think you can still get rides at the new location. Ok, I found a link. It is a bit bigger than that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B
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Just as the Christians co-opted it from the Pagans before, us Secularists have now co-opted it for ourselves. Of course, that in no way implies that Christians and Pagans aren't free to celebrate it any way they choose. Besides, for health reasons I'm on a rather limited diet. It's my one time a year to eat Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding.
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I've never see it do so. Particularly not in the rain. I'm also curious about the uniformity in the horizontal lining of the pictographs. That stylization seems very modern.
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Amazing. The pictures surprised me as I don't expect that kind of preservation in an open air site. One picture show's a bit of an overhang, but still. It makes me go hmmmmm.
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That's not fair! I almost shot coffee out of my nose. But not inaccurate.
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Pot is really easy to grow.
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New dating of Stalagmites puts the creation of these structures at 176,500 bp. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/the-astonishing-age-of-a-neanderthal-cave-construction-site/484070/?fbclid=IwAR3LcoGZJPFqtasbM4pAUCGlupUu0-zu3x5Ynh2QaLRTN0rxcF2qZavsRhM
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Since this subject has come up a few times I thought I would share this article. I've actually been looking for it for some time, but the Society of American Archaeologists just opened up some archived materials as a tribute to the late Dr. George Frison. The article might not be suitable to the squeamish, and comes from a different era. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-
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He was probably referring to Grover Krantz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz
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"there´s always Korla Plankton him´n me can play the blues an´then i´ll watch him buff that tiny ruby that he use he´ll straighten up his turban an´eject a little ooze along a one-celled Hammond organism underneath my shoes." Korla Pandit was an interesting dude. Made quite a life for himself by pretending he was something that he was not. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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Sexual Brachiators?
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Unfortunately, no I haven't.
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Interesting that this showed up in my news feed today: Abstract Documenting the first appearance of modern humans in a given region is key to understanding the dispersal process and the replacement or assimilation of indigenous human populations such as the Neanderthals. The Iberian Peninsula was the last refuge of Neanderthal populations as modern humans advanced across Eurasia. Here we pres
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Lambda? Didn't they win the Greek Games?
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Ancient humans? Have you ever spent much time on a sheep ranch?
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If you are buying that, you really need to google "Ooparts".
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According to the article's I've read they dated the stratigraphic layer in which they were found.
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Based on the photo's I've seen of the tools, I'm rather skeptical at this point. But we shall see.
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