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About borderslynn

Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers. In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917

Salt and economic/human management: China compared to Mexico

Posted on November 28, 2018 by borderslynn

The evolution of humans who had a nomadic life prior to the settling of China, as we know it today, can be noted in landmark prehistoric fossil discoveries: ‘Yuanmou Man’ who lived 1.7 million years ago in today’s Yunnan Province, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, cradle of civilisation, dams, ecocide, floods, geology, Mexico, neolithic, paleolithic, seismic activity, tectonic plates | Leave a comment

Salt, Sulphates and Survival: Living things

Posted on November 14, 2018 by borderslynn

Salt (sodium chloride or halite), for details of the chemistry of Salt see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(chemistry), has been the focus of human interest for thousands of years. It has been much sought after and traded since humans first realised its value. But … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, Lake Onega, marine life, origins of life, osmoregulator, oxygen, Russia, salination, salt, salt contamination, sulphates | Leave a comment

Teotihuacan in Mexico compared to Roman Kingdom in Italy: Part Two

Posted on November 10, 2018 by borderslynn

Little is certain about the Roman kingdom’s history, as no records and few inscriptions from the time of the kings survive and we find a similar lack of written history for Teotihuacan. As small groups of hunter gatherers, 12 to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged civilisations, early humans, italy, mesoamerica, Mexico, military expansion, Rome, skill building, teotihuacan, tool development, trade, weapons | Leave a comment

Teotihuacan in Mexico compared to Rome, Italy: Part One

Posted on October 14, 2018 by borderslynn

Setting the scene Thousands of years ago, as the ice sheets melted and humans began their migrations and explorations of this Earth, let us try to imagine, without modern transport and comforts, how tribes of people could travel from Africa … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged architecture, aridity, building materials, civilisation, Farming, irrigation, italy, Mexico, rain shadow, Romans, teotihuacan, trade, water shortages | 1 Comment

The tribes who evolved out of Africa to eventually become pre-Roman settlers

Posted on September 3, 2018 by borderslynn

Influencers of pre Roman tribes were The Scythians – the Greeks’ name for this initially nomadic people. They inhabited Scythia from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. This included Kazakhstan, thought to be the location … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient tribes, Apennines, chariot, domestication of horses, Eurasia, Farming, italy, kurgan, metallurgy, pre-Rome, warrior nomads | Leave a comment

Obsidian Power: Part Two

Posted on August 13, 2018 by borderslynn

Fact: You can’t hang on to your power base if the drinking water has dried up or become contaminated. It comes as no surprise that we find early humans dwelt close to abundant water supplies, recognising humans can endure many … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged drought, freshwater, Mammoths, Mesoamerican civilisations, Mexico City, obsidian, sea water contamination of aquifers, water shortages | 1 Comment

Obsidian and Power: Part One

Posted on August 7, 2018 by borderslynn

One of the most fascinating subjects I personally keep returning to is the area around the Gulf of Mexico and that point in Earth’s history when she was hit by a massive asteroid and the millions of years of global … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asteroid, atmospheric heat, carbons, climate, hominins, Lapita, Mesoamerica civilisation, Mexico, nomads, Osmec, Pacific Ring of Fire, South Africa, tectonic plates, tribes, volcanoes | Leave a comment

Habitat, genetics and us

Posted on June 19, 2018 by borderslynn

As the last Ice Age melts at a fast pace, the upside of that news is that researchers are finding more and more ancient bones, skeletons and artefacts which were previously locked under permafrost. The knowledge accumulating about the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adaptation, archaic humans, caves, environment, fire uses, food diversity, ice age, mammoth, Siberia, skill development, survival | Leave a comment

Before humans there were many forms of life

Posted on June 11, 2018 by borderslynn

Timeline: Pre-human evolution The earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the first life dates to at least 3.5 billion years ago. I found the following useful https://dinosaurpedia.wordpress.com I have referred back to Scotland (where I live) as this … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asia, asteroid, climate change, dinosaurs, Eurasia, extinction, Gulf of Mexico, North America, oil, origins of life on earth, scotland, South America, timeline | Leave a comment

The Great Rift Valley route out to world exploration

Posted on February 19, 2018 by borderslynn

The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley, that stretches across … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, arabia, ethiopia, Europe, greece, hominids, middle east, near East, red sea, sicily, sudan, tanzania, yemen | 1 Comment

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