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A ‘Heinrich Event’?
There were 6 between 64-15,000 years ago when, during warmer periods, large numbers of icebergs broke off from glaciers and flowed into the North Atlantic, causing very rapid environmental changes that impacted on populations throughout the world.

phys.org/news/2024-11...
Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation to speed up warming down south, model suggests
A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both temp...
phys.org
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Fossils from Daka, Ethiopia, were attributed to Homo erectus after their discovery in the late 1990s. Some recent work suggests the skull is more closely aligned with later hominins such as Homo bodoensis. Could this be the common ancestor of modern people, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?
November 18, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Just over 100 miles to the south of here, fine-grained Ice Age deposits preserved carved 15 female figurines at the site of Renancourt, Amiens, France. 23k yrs old. Recovered as individual fragments of fractured soft chalk by #INRAP.
Q: Would an average UK rescue project get this result?
🦣 🏺
November 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Have a listen to my chat with Ricardo Lopes (The Dissenter). We chat about my physiological work reindeer herders and woman the hunter!

youtu.be/8YohRIh4uTE

And his website: www.thedissenter.net
#1020 Cara Ocobock: Can Women Hunt?
YouTube video by The Dissenter
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Speciation Complexity in Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪

Discusses evidence about species-level differentiation of H. sapiens and Neanderthals and analyzes major sources of taxonomic disagreement.
November 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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🏺 More evidence prehistoric women essentially invented the world 💅... #Matriarcha

**this post is a joke but also not
Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, archeologists are arguing, in the process they pioneered the basic mechanics that eventually made cart wheels possible. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Key wheel ideas may have come from weaving
The tools used to make threads could have seeded concepts that eventually led to the wheel.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Here is (I hope) a working link to "A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 18, 2024 at 1:34 PM