For Those Interested in Archaeology

Australian Aboriginals (like everything Australian) had to make their own hunting techniques up...Most so simple yet so smart.
My favourite, is building a small structure to hide yourself/selves...not unlike this:

Then push a furry kangaroo foot through the wood/grass and wiggle it about...A bird of prey (Eagle/Hawk/Falcon) spots it and dives on it...as soon as it lands you grab its legs and pull it down, with a donk on the head. Voila! Roast eagle!

 

Always amazed at how much scientists don't actually know after all.

 

By 'eck! (ok so that's Yorkshire. Sue me. )
"Remains of a man found in a cave in Cumbria have been dated to 11,000 years, making him 'Britain's oldest northerner', scientists say.
The man was laid to rest in Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Great Urswick, just after Britain thawed following the last Ice Age.
It's believed the man was buried along with jewellery, a fragment of which was also found in the cave.
First excavated in 1958, Heaning Wood Bone Cave is one of the earliest identified locations for human presence in the north of England."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11679029/Britains-oldest-northerner-Human-remains-Cumbria-cave-date-11-000-years.html

 

GRW:

Yorkshire or Yarkshire? That's the way I heard it pronounced when I lived in Britain in the early 1970s. But maybe the modern mass media has diluted the regional accents and dialects with a deluge of recieved pronunciation English in the last fifty years.

Regarding the state of settlement in the North of England, it amazes me that at about the the same time in the lands we now call Northern Syria and Southern Türkiye (Turkey) there was a thriving monument and temple building culture already well developed in the last years of the Younger Dryas Period about 11,700 years ago. Places like Karahantepe and the better known Göbekli Tepe plus many more smaller religious centres were thriving and growing then. It causes me to wonder what might be found underwater, off the Yorkshire coast (and all Btitain's coasts) because back then even post the last Ice Age, sea levels were lower than in present times.

Interesting thread, this.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

Biak:

Will it be a Woolly Mammoth or a proto-Woolly Mammoth? It may have archaic DNA in its nuclei but in its mitochondria and several other cell organelles it will have its Asian Elephant, surrogate mother's DNA. However, it will be very interesting to see what the folks at Colossal come up with. I just hope they don't resurrect monsters like Andrewsarchus and any Entelodonts. Those creatures were crazy and very nasty.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

OpanaPointer:

Yup, much, much bigger than the largest pigs of today and the meanest natures you can imagine. Sharp, long teeth everywhere on their mouths and a penchant for charging rivals or prey. Think of a drug-running, organised crime oriented, motorcycle gang without the bikes, the drugs and the primates.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

Seems to be Yawkshirr these days, if a well-known tv soap is anything to go by. Always amazed at how many hunter-gatherer sites are found off the coast these days, think the whole Doggerland phenomenon is endlessly fascinating. When they were building the new Forth crossing they discovered the remains of a 10,000 year old hut. Makes you wonder what else is out there-
Scottish dig unearths '10,000-year-old home' at Echline

 

Bet it's in better nick than the local modern pavements.
"An ancient, 'beautifully-engineered' path that is believed to have been built by the Romans has been unearthed with barely a blemish on it 2,000 years later.
The 10ft wide pathway would have been a 'smooth' sweeping road with drainage ditches on each side to allow any water on the road to run off.
It was discovered during a £1bn project to build a new town on the edge of Plymouth, Devon.
Experts from a local archaeological company have carefully peeled back the layers of dirt to reveal the crushed slate top of the unmapped Roman road.
It is thought that the road would have regularly been used by traders and farmers from the hints of cart tracks that can be seen running along the surface.
According to the experts there was no evidence of any repairs having to be carried out on the road.
Rob Bourn, director of archaeology firm Orion Heritage, was impressed by the engineering which had gone into the road design.
It would have been built with layers of gravel before being topped with crushed slate.
More research needs to be done on the half-a-mile stretch of road in Devon to more accurately date it. Artefacts from the earlier Bronze Age and Roman pottery have also been found at the site.
Mr Bourn did not think it was used during the initial invasion of Britain by the Roman legions but built after the occupation was complete.
He said: 'We cannot exactly date this road yet as we rely upon artefacts found at the scene of these roads to date them.
'We cannot say for definite that it is a Roman road but it is very, very likely.
'There is no evidence of this road in the earliest maps we have from the 17th century and before that it is unlikely that roads of this quality would have been built since the Roman times."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11731397/Ancient-path-believed-built-Romans-unearthed-2-000-years.html

 

There are a number of ancient animals scheduled to be brought back...The Dodo and Tasmanian Tiger just two...Im confident this will be done because its a learning experience for the branch of science. My concern is really about what will be done with these creatures? Just like a human frozen for 500 years and brought back, they would be a fish out of water. Will sufficient numbers be created and bred to return to the wild? Or will they forever just be scientific curiosities?

 

2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools - ABC News