For Those Interested in Archaeology

Wish you were mate...Shes a bit hot this time of the year though. Storms every afternoon...

 

That's a bit gorgeous.

 

From my part of Australia this is Rum Jungle - About an hour down the track. The place was once a Uranium mine.


Rum Jungle Uranium mine:

 

Hey we have free health care...
And TRUMP may get back in...I'll save a taxi for you at the airport.

 

Gunlom falls - When i was a kid we used to swim here when it was known as UDP falls...What does UDP stand for? Uranium Development Program - Oh well.

 

I'll keep my eyes peeled...


And cock an ear too...

 

Ah...that explains your healthy glow.....

 

It's 41F here at the moment. No idea what that is in the modern crap.

 

"A low tide on a Cornish beach has revealed the trunks, stumps and roots of an ancient forest that's at least 4,000 years old.
Winter storms shifted sands in Mount's Bay, meaning when the sea withdrew further than usual this week, it revealed the remnants of prehistoric trees.
The forest in Mount's Bay has been known for centuries with St Michael’s Mount’s original name in Cornish being ‘Karrek Loos yn Koos’, meaning ‘Grey Rock in the Wood'.
But the peat beds that contain the remnants of the forest floor are only revealed every so often."
Tree trunks, stumps and roots from ancient submerged forest that's at least 4,000-years-old are uncovered on Cornish beach after lowest tide of the year | Daily Mail Online

 

"Researchers working in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula have uncovered evidence showing how Middle Stone Age humans survived in the wake of the eruption of Toba, one of the largest supervolcanoes in history, some 74,000 years ago.
Modern humans dispersed from Africa multiple times, but the event that led to global expansion occurred less than 100,000 years ago. Some researchers hypothesize that dispersals were restricted to “green corridors” formed during humid intervals when food was abundant and human populations expanded in lockstep with their environments.
But a new study in Nature led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin suggests that humans also may have dispersed during arid intervals along “blue highways” created by seasonal rivers. Researchers also found stone tools that represent the oldest evidence of archery.
The research team examined a site called Shinfa-Metema 1 located in the lowlands of northwest Ethiopia near the Shinfa River, a tributary of the Blue Nile. They found evidence that this site was occupied during a period when the devastating Toba supervolcano erupted in Sumatra 74,000 years ago. Tiny fragments of volcanic glass, or cryptotephra, recovered from the archaeological deposits matched the chemical signature of the Toba eruption.
The Shinfa-Metema 1 site, shows humans were occupying the site before and after the volcano erupted more than 4,000 miles away."
Researchers Found Evidence in Ethiopia of a Human Population that Survived the Eruption of the Toba Supervolcano 74,000 Years Ago - Arkeonews

 

Dinosaurs could be the reason why humans age so quickly, scientists say (msn.com)

 

Don't underestimate our Stone Age ancestors — we could learn from them (msn.com)

 

Where is the oldest forest in the world?...Upstate New York of course!

The world's oldest forest dating hundreds of millions of years old has been discovered (msn.com)