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This is interesting and something I've long thought should be possible (that different human 'species' were able to, and did, conceive children). It turns out that researchers found this out around 2015. Now looking forward to whether and when they find evidence of homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis mixing.
Sadly, the girl in question seems to have died very young. There doesn't seem to be any evidence yet on what happened to her or her contemporaries, e.g. whether there was any kind of violent event or whether she might have been ill, much though the work in the Denisova cave seems to be on tiny bone fragments and even the soil.
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homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis mixing
I thought this was already confirmed through DNA of non sub Saharan African modern humans and the odd fossil.
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Ah, I didn't know. It seems the only possibility, really.
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South America continues to be fascinating:
Vilcabamba is, of course, not the 'last' Inca city. There, as everywhere, I'm convinced we haven't even scratched the surface yet.
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Quite a sweet little story here, especially if you imagine a small child wearing this remarkably well-preserved sock:
Unfortunately, there's also the revelation of an embarrassing fact about ancient Egyptians:
the ancient Egyptians are thought to be responsible for the first knitted socks, styling them with one compartment for the big toe and another for the remaining four toes to accommodate their use with sandals.
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lady of the lake. amazing find
Sweden's 'true queen', 8, pulls ancient sword from lake
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What a Saga. :)
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Yes, it's quite amazing how much of the history of those parts was buried in just a few hundred years. We'll hear a lot more about the Amazon basin in the coming years as people find really rather obvious things again.
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I vaguely remember being told about a counter cultural movement in ancient Alexandria.
Apparently the bourgeoisie kids just, like, had enough of the rat race maaan. IIRC they moved out of the city and into mountain caves becoming a sort of proto hippies. I've had no luck finding info trough google. Anyone? -
Not a lost city but this is incredible
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/cp-4tm111318.phpa vast array of regularly spaced, still-inhabited termite mounds in northeastern Brazil--covering an area the size of Great Britain--are up to about 4,000 years old.
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I saw that, incredible, yet devastating because it was only discovered through deforestation.
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A more recent 'lost city', which I suppose I could also post in the architecture thread or various others. It does feel like a lost city, though, especially if you look at Atlanta today:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/23/lost-city-of-atlanta-historic-building-parking-lot
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I don't know. I think the excavation history of Stonehenge and environs is something you could make your sole preoccupation in life and still not get to the end of it.
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I don't know. I think the excavation history of Stonehenge and environs is something you could make your sole preoccupation in life and still not get to the bottom of.
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I like this story--pop down to the Thames foreshore in your lunch break and find a 1,500-year-old oil lamp made in North Africa:
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This video shows why Egyptian archaeology is still the main big-ticket item:
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Meanwhile in Northern Europe
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Interesting.
I've long thought that populations must have been much higher historically than current estimates, but that they were often reduced or wiped out by natural disasters/epidemics/wars/genocide. Also, naturally most of our assumptions must be based on actual findings, and the more we find the more older assumptions can be challenged.
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Didn't they release one single on wiiija records?