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Tag Archives: ice age
Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink
Recent excessive flooding, rising sea levels and glacial melt combined with monsoon seasons make us have to address the world crises with full force. Water covers much of our planet, but a small percentage is drinkable. The land we walk … Continue reading
Habitat, genetics and us
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
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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
Posted in anthropocene
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
Posted in anthropocene
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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Ice and its significance
In 1816, headlines in newspapers read: “The Year Without a Summer” (also known as the Poverty Year, “The Summer that Never Was”, “Year There Was No Summer” and “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”. Climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged archaeology, asteroids, climate change, colcanic ash, earth, earth history, ice age, ice cap, unprecedented events, volcanic eruptions
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