History/Archaeology

[rischka]

and thanks for the trek planner channel, i subscribed! i learned of the dino footprints from youtube channel outdoor boys (a bunch of mormons but boy can that guy cook over a campfire)

[sally]

went looking for this highly obvious on google earth bronze-age urn burial enclosure earlier this week:




from red blob, totally obvious on the ground, right?

[sally]

for 1952 poll, a record of an archaeological dig to greenland, with a slightly more cavalier attitude to human remains than archaeologists have these days....

https://www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/groenland-i-ii

[rischka]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... ite-sands/

Two years ago, a team of scientists came to the conclusion that human tracks sunk into the mud in White Sands National Park in New Mexico were more than 21,000 years old. The provocative finding threatened the dominant thinking on when and how people migrated into the Americas. Soon afterward, a technical debate erupted about the method used to estimate the age of the tracks, which relied on an analysis of plant seeds embedded with the footprints.

Now, a study published in the journal Science confirms the initial finding with two new lines of evidence: thousands of grains of pollen and an analysis of quartz crystals in the sediments.

technology is testing established narratives about human presence in the americas - people lived here along side woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths - reopening debate on how they reached the continent. it's long been assumed they crossed the bering land bridge about 10,000 years ago

[rischka]

also i visited the wonderful museum at canyon of the ancients near dolores colorado

[sally]

double mug! ♥

that trek guy on youtube is always finding smashed potsherds everywhere, nice to see what they look like whole!

[rischka]

https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient ... ts-2023-10

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[rischka]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741

still finding astonishing things at pompeii