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Cheese making dates back at least 7000 years
How long have human beings been making cheese? A hell of a lot longer than previously thought as it turns out. Apparently, we’ve been turning dairy into cheese for at least 7000 years, which is pretty close to as long as we’ve streaming out of Africa.
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posted 14 December, 2012
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Obama’s secret weapon in the South? Plankton.
This is a fascinating read about why Obama has strange swath of strong supporters in the South that happens to exactly mirror the coastline of the southeast corner of America during the Cretaceous era, 129 million years ago. Yes, ancient geology still plays a role in modern American politics.
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posted 02 November, 2012
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21st century versions of stone and flint tools
Because everything that’s really really really old is now suddenly new again. Mockups created by Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow of Tel Aviv.
Ancient spider captured forever in amber, just as it’s about to have dinner
This is a spider, which was encased in tree sap while in the act of attacking a wasp. The sap turned to amber, leaving an incredible preserved scene, with even individual strands of silk from the spider’s web remaining unbroken for 100 million years.
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posted 15 October, 2012
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The earliest split in modern humanity was 100,000 years ago
It’s already known that the Khoe-San people of southern Africa are one of the earliest distinct groups of Homo sapiens, but exactly how old are they? New research, examining the genomes of 220 different people from 11 different southern African populations shows that this first split happened around 100,000 years ago.
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posted 25 September, 2012
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A geological time scale that would make sense to Creationists
In case you were wondering exactly what the known scientific geological time scale looks like compared to the 4000 year truncated version laid out by Creationists, the internet delivers.
The earliest evidence of ancient dentistry we have is an amazingly detailed dental work on a mummy from ancient Egypt that archaeologists have dated to 2000 BCE.
The work shows intricate gold work around the teeth. This mummy was found with two donor teeth that had holes drilled into them. Wires were strung through the holes and then around the neighboring teeth.
via metalonmetalblog
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posted 29 August, 2012
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Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine
When you think of Neanderthals, yeah sure they had basic leather and fur clothing and some really basic tools, but medicine? Apparently so. New evidence from the dental tartar of Neanderthals shows they also had a basic knowledge of herbal medicine.
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posted 24 July, 2012
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First known assassination was done with an arrow 5300 years ago
As long as humans have been humans, we’ve been finding ways to fuck over our fellow man. A new report published in The Journal of Royal Society’s Interface has confirmed that the first assassinated man in history was killed by an arrow, shot into his back, 5,300 years ago. Et tu Ugg?
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posted 03 May, 2012
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Otzi the ice man was lactose intolerant, has relatives in the Mediterranean region
In 1991, the Tyrolean Iceman, also know as Otzi, was discovered frozen in the Alps and has since been invaluable in giving scientists a look at what human life in central Europe might have been like 5300 years ago. Even though Otzi’s body has been studied for the past 20 years, he still yields new secrets— like how apparently he was lactose intolerant and has modern day relatives living in the Mediterranean region.
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posted 03 March, 2012
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Earliest human paintings ever discovered in a cave in Spain
In the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain, the above painting was discovered and dated to be 42,000 years old, making them the oldest human artwork ever found. Or maybe they’re human. There’s also a very good chance the art was made by Neanderthals, during the hominid species’ last stand, pushed back to the Iberian peninsula.
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posted 08 February, 2012
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Eyes of an ancient ocean super predator found in Australia
Australian scientists on Thursday hailed the discovery of a pair of insect-like eyes belonging to a freakish prehistoric super-predator which trawled the seas more than 500 million years ago. SCARY!
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posted 09 December, 2011
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Neanderthals weren’t the only hominids humans bumped uglies with
It’s pretty much established at this point that Homo sapiens (that’s us) and Neanderthals did occasionally get down and dirty under the mammoth skin, but humans in Europe weren’t the only ones bumping uglies with other hominid species. Across the globe in east Asia, people were making sweet sweet monkey love with Denisovans.
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posted 12 November, 2011
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Humans invented cooked food 2 million years ago
Around 2 million years ago, Homo erectus, one of the many now extinct species of human, was probably the first to invent cooking. This seminal event had huge implications for hominid evolution, giving the ancestors of modern humans time and energy for activities such as running, thinking deep thoughts and inventing things like the wheel, reality shows and beer can chicken.
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posted 25 August, 2011
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Phonetic clues hint that all language is Africa-born
We know that Homo sapiens originated in Africa and from there, spread around the globe to where you’re sitting and where you’re sitting and where you’re sitting. But there’s been some debate as to whether complex language evolved while we were still half-hairy apes or whether it came after many of us had left.
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posted 19 April, 2011
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