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Graecopithecus to the Americas
Let us go back to pre-human existence, in fact to the Jurassic (201–145 Ma) when Pangaea began to break up into two continents, Gondwana and Laurasia, marking the beginning of the separation of Scotland and North America. Sea levels rose, … Continue reading
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Tagged american indians, apache, Beringia, clovis, Graecopithecus, holocene, last glacial maximum, new mexico, paleoindians, Smithsonian
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From Africa to Australia, then thousands of years later, arrival of the Scots
I have put together what, to me, and surely any other curious person, is the fascinating current understanding of the ancient people who made their way to Australia, possible 40 to 70,000 years ago. Those humans knew how to light … Continue reading
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Tagged aborigine, Africa, archaeology, australia, genetics, genome project, migration, mungo lady, mungo man, neanderthal
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Destruction of the Garden
Humans thrive when nature provides them with fertile land where they feel safe and can develop skills. This was such a place, between less abundant and often hostile lands, it was a place humans would target and fight to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged arable land, bronze age, dam technology, ecology, Farming, fertile crescent, habitat, irrigation, pre neolithic, water, wildlife
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Movement of People of the African Sahara
I have been particularly interested in finding out why people migrated out of Africa, but there is also the story of those who remained. The adaptable indigenous human, always so ingenious in the most hostile environments. Yet becoming part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, aquifer, arabian, desert, ice age, megalithic, migration, nomads, paleolithic, rainfall, rivers, sahara, survival, water, weather patterns
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The connectivity of oceans and human survival
Business jargon uses SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to determine decision making. I would suggest this is probably how all humans have approached challenges of survival, but business jargon has encapsulated the process. As the oceans warmed and the … Continue reading
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Tagged boats, bronze age, egypt, ice age, ice melt, language, Mesopotamia, mycenean, oceans, phoenecians, rising sea levels, seafaring
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From Africa to Scotland
Modern technology has afforded more tools for measuring and dating finds of past human activity. Radiocarbon dating can measure up to 40,000 years ago. This has resulted in recalibration of estimated ages of archaeological finds so that items already in … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, archaeology, carbon dating, geology, human migration, ice age, mesolithic, neolithic, Orkney, scotland, UNESCO
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Out of Africa
Title: A San (Bushman) who gave us an exhibition of traditional dress and hunting/foraging behavior. Namibia. (IDBeatty_002219) Perhaps the biggest long-term strength of the hunter-gatherers’ lifestyle was that it provided an inbuilt control on the overall level of human population. … Continue reading
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Tagged archaology, Assyrian, bronze age, climate change, demise of empire, farmers, Hittites, hunter-gatherers, iron age, Levant, Mesopotamia, nomad, Old Testament, resources, science
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