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[repulsewarrior]

...a little closer to home, (in 'our' EEZ, lol)

https://themedialine.org/mideast-daily- ... terranean/

...the photo is beautiful.

''This significant find dates back about 6 million years to the Messinian geologic timescale, measuring 10 km in width and 0.5 km in depth.''

[repulsewarrior]

...Otzi, more news on him.



(about twenty minutes long)

[Lordo]

...Otzi, more news on him.



(about twenty minutes long)

I have been following this incident ever since he was discovered. and we are of the same blood group to boot.

[repulsewarrior]

...me too.

[Lordo]

:shock:

...me too.

Oh shit RW, we may even be related going back 10,000 years

Although Zero positive is the most common blood group and can be used for some other blood groups if they need blood.

[repulsewarrior]

Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-human ... 2024-03-12

[repulsewarrior]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB1mzIXo

...it's the population growth i find most astounding.

[Lordo]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/study-finds-paleolithic-people-settled-in-cyprus-thousands-of-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/ar-BB1mzIXo

...it's the population growth i find most astounding.

Why RW?
A human can have more than 10 children so it is not hard to see the population increase in a very short space of time. I know families in my generation that had 10 children. Naturally not all survived but families with 7, 8 and 9 surviving children were common even during the 60s.

[Lordo]

This is very interesting indeed.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/dna-analysis-spanning-9-generations-of-people-reveals-marriage-practices-of-mysterious-warrior-culture/ar-AA1nBy2W?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=0d608ced0e834db9885a4baa5a3602ee&ei=28

It also produced clear evidence for a practice called levirate, which is when closely related men have children with the same woman, often following the death of one of the men. The team found three pairs of fathers and sons, two pairs of brothers, and an uncle and nephew who each had shared a female partner.

Not quite to the same extent but this practice is being practiced in Kurdish areas in Turkey to this day. This was mentioned in the Film "Yol" by Yilmaz Guney. A man with a wife and two children is killed by the army and his brother becomes the husband to his wife. Now this has a practical reason. Somebody will have to look after the wife and the children as there is no social services of any kind.
Kurds have been living in that region for over 2000 years.

[Lordo]

Here is another interesting fact going back half a million years.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/waterfall-discovery-changes-what-we-believed-about-evolution/ar-BB1miAJv?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=39f27606ec0b40e48b2a9d55f918dfb1&ei=19