For Those Interested in Archaeology

Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria: Fossil Record
The oldest known fossils, in fact, are cyanobacteria from Archaean rocks of western Australia, dated 3.5 billion years old. This may be somewhat surprising, since the oldest rocks are only a little older: 3.8 billion years old! Cyanobacteria are among the easiest microfossils to recognize.


Western Australia - 3.5 Billion years old...You see what I mean when I say Australia is OLD.
Australia is the flattest continent on Earth because all our mountains have been worn down!

 

Ah, but they didn't actually say the Loch Torridon one was the oldest fossil, just that it may be the oldest multicellular animal on record.

 

Yeah sorry, i'm just triggered whenever I see the word oldest...Can you call this thing an "animal"?

Cyanobacteria fossil...

 

Well, I wouldn't know one way or the other mate. Biology was never my strong point lol.

 

If they're right, this is a major breakthrough.
"A bloody Anglo Saxon conflict believed to have taken place in Liverpool which forged modern England is seen by historians as one of the most significant battles in British history but remains largely unknown to its people.
The Battle of Brunanburh in 937AD saw King Aethelstan's English forces fight a Viking-led alliance in a brutal combat which saw six kings and seven earls killed.
At the time of the battle, Britain was a divided nation ruled by the Celts in the far north, the Earls of Northumberland (of Norse, viking decent) in the north of England and most of Ireland while the Anglo Saxons controlled central and southern England.
Brunanburh saw the Anglo Saxons go head to head with a joint army of Celts and Norse warriors.
The site of the battle has been a mystery despite its historical significance, with archaeologists most recently claiming it took place near Liverpool."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9532515/How-Anglo-Saxon-warriors-took-Viking-led-enemy-alliance-Battle-Brunanburh.html

 

That would have been a battle to bring the pop corn for...

 

Yep.

 

It's Ivar the Boneless!

 

Gareth Graybeard...on a bazerka rage...

 

Or maybe they just decided to move to New Zealand.

 

" A newly-identified sabre-toothed cat that lived in North America five to nine million years ago weighed some 600 pounds and could have taken down prey ten times its size.
US researchers named the ferocious feline 'Machairodus lahayishupup' to honour the Cayuse people, on whose lands the original specimen was unearthed.
In Old Cayuse, 'Laháyis Húpup' means ancient wild cat, while 'Machairodus' is a known genus of giant, sabre-toothed cats from North America, Africa, Eurasia.
The team believe that the newly-identified species existed early in the evolution of the sabre-toothed cats, but more research will be needed to confirm this.
M. lahayishupup is also a relative of Smilodon — arguably the best known of sabre-toothed cats — which went extinct around 10,000 years ago.
The new species was identified mainly from its massive forearms, a feature which sabre-toothed cats used to subdue their prey."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9540887/Fossils-Newly-identified-sabre-toothed-cat-9-million-years-ago-weighed-600-pounds.html

 

"Humans are actively changing landscapes across the globe, but shaping ecosystems is not just a modern activity – our ancestors started the transformation nearly 100,000 years ago.
An analysis of settlements and paleoenvironmental data along the northern shores of East Africa's Lake Malawi reveals ancient inhabitants used fire 92,000 years ago to prevent forest regrowth.
These Stone Age humans burned surrounding forests to make room for a growing population, which resulted in a sprawling bushland that stretches across the region today.
The Yale-led study uncovered settlements in the area built 92,000 years ago, along with a surge of charcoal deposits in the core of the lake that appeared shortly after – allowing researchers to piece the story together.
Jessica Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the paper's lead author, said: 'This is the earliest evidence I have seen of humans fundamentally transforming their ecosystem with fire.
'It suggests that by the Late Pleistocene, humans were learning to use fire in truly novel ways. In this case, their burning caused replacement of the region's forests with the open woodlands you see today.'"
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9547265/Humans-used-FIRE-transform-environment-92-000-years-ago-Africa.html

 

Australian Aboriginals have done this for thousands of years in Australia...It is said that they have turned forested areas into semi arid lands and semi arid lands into arid lands...(So many deserts)...Done partly to reduce fuel, partly to encourage regrowth...but even, and this article doesn't mention it, simply to scare prey to run out of an area into the waiting arms (spears) of the hunters...always seemed an expensive (and lazy) way of catching food...bit like dynamiting a lake for a few fish.

 

Tourists flock to paleo attractions in outback Queensland

'Absolutely amazing': Outback Queensland becoming dinosaur capital of the world

 

The serbs liked to shot with canons the 1984 THE PREVIOUS ICE HALL ( JUST CANNOT MAKE THE LETTERS SMALL....)



tHE ROOFLESS ICE HALL IS ON THE LEFT.

 

Exciting news from Scotland. The 4 to 5,000-year-old carvings of animals discovered by Hamish Fenton at Dunchraigaig Cairn in Kilmartin Glen are the first such animal depictions known from Neolithic or Early Bronze Age Scotland-