Jeffersons sloth, megalonyx or (greek) “giant claw” is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family megalonychidae.
Aside from there deceivingly large cuddly, and playful looks. These critters were native and unique to north America during the pliocene and pleistocene. However, because of not many remains, we don’t know as much as some of the other late pleistocene vertabrates. Like sabretooth tiger or direwolf, who were probably found in areas better suited…
No wonder everyone wanted a woolly mammoth
From 40,000 years ago, as vindicated in numerous caves, the woolly mammoths were one of the most popular subjects of neolithic artists. Its tusks were 15 feet long, and some were as large as 7 tonnes. On top of this, their long, shaggy coats, and famous tusks. Woolly mammoths were able to ward off hungry…
Established during the neolithic period. One of the largest archaeological sites on Crete, is Knossos. What some say is also called Europe’s oldest city.
A ancient Greek capital of the legendary king Minos. Is Knossos, it was the principal center of the Minoan culture. Established during the neolithic age. Is one of the earliest ancient neolithic civilizations of Greece. Its site stands on a knoll. Between two streams, and is located about 5 miles (8 km) below Crete’s northern…
Because of the giant whirlpool in front of it, Lepenski Vir is cyrillic for ‘Lepena Whirlpool’ or Лепенски Вир
In the middle of the Djerdap, iron gates gorge of the Danube river, where it exits Hungry. Around the steep clifs of Korso hills. Exists Lepenski Vir. One of the earliest establishments in Europe. Vindicating a Serbian transition, it is one of the most important archaeological sites of the mesolithic iron gates culture in the…
Crete is roughly the shape of Long Island; lies half way between Peloponnes and north Africa; and, with steep mountains, became popular in Neolithic times
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and organic remains, offers some dates on the neolithic history of Crete. It is believed the neolithic period on Crete lasted from about 6800 to 3200BC. About 9000 or 8000 years ago, neolithic people that were farmers, with sheep, goat, and grains arrived on the island and were able to establish…
Beginning with the spread of farming, neolithic Greece started around 9000 to 8500 years ago.
Major sites:Nea NikomedeiaSeskloDiminiAthensMilosFranchthi CaveKnossos The climate was ripe. During this period, growth occurred due to mixed farmings self initiating economy growth, plus the intelligence of modern human beings. It included agricultural innovations such as buildings and homes; tool and obsidian manufacturing; great pottery, art; commercialization and trade. PeriodizationDuring the pre-pottery neolithic B period. From Island…
Michelsberg culture (4400 to 3500bc) is characterized by undecorated pointy based tulip beakers.
A hill near Untergrombach, Germany belongs to central Europes late neolithic period. Covering much of west central Europe, along both sides of the Rhine. Scientists have based chronology on pottery, and other neolithic elements. Important sitesKapellenbergSchiersteinHeilbronn-KlingenbergUrmitzIlsfeldBruchsal-Aue HistoryIn north eastern France around 4400, a new culture emerged. Based on human DNA, there tools and craft. Evidence…
Gavrinis contains the Gavrinis tomb, a megalith comparable to some in Breton, Ireland and Orkney.
Notable for its abundance of megalithic art from the European Neolithic age. It is on a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France. The main tomb was built around 4200-4000 BC, and finished off thereafter. Its use use ceased around 3000 BC, when the entrance was sealed off. Over time, landscapes transformed…
Chalcopyrite was the mineral upon which copper & bronze age civilizations were built
Comes from the Greek words ‘chalkos’ and ‘pyrites’, which respectively mean ‘copper’ and ‘striking’. Chalcopyrite was the mineral upon which copper and bronze Age civilizations were built. Within the last century, it has also became the mineral foundation for our modern electrical age. Our primary source of copper, chalcopyrite’s name. With its metallic luster and…
Circular enclosures from the neolithic age are found in central Europe
Found in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, as well as the adjacent parts of Hungary and Poland. A stretch in the center of Europe some 800 km, or (500 mi) has numerous circular enclosures. Mostly across the Elbe and Danube basins. In German, they are called Kreisgrabenanlagen, “rondels” and “rondeloid”.Most of the circles are actually…
The neolithic flint mines at Spiennes Mons is one of the most culturally significant centres of world heritage
After a couple decades of believing there was something odd about the area. Finally, in 1867, a railway line was dug that cut through 25 mining shafts. It is the origin and, discovery of the site Spiennes Mons. Covering more than 100 ha (250 acres), it is the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines…
Across many past and current cultures, caribou, reindeer or rangifer tarandus are mythical creatures
Still found in the northern portions of North America, Europe and Asia. Caribou, or reindeer, are holarctic deer. Reindeer, caribou or ranifer tarandus remain one of the most culturally significant creatures dating back to mythical stories from the pleistocene. Currently found in Alaska, Canada and along the Canada-U.S. border, including northern Idaho, northeastern Washington and…
Varna Necropolis has the oldest gold treasures and jewelry in the world dating from 4200 to 4600bc
Internationally considered a significant site for pre-history and metallurgy. Its not only the large and 6000 year old gold treasures (including a penis sheath), but many other treasures from the area. Discovery and excavationIn October 1972, excavator operator Raycho Marinov accidently discovered one of the greatest archaeological finds from the past 60 years. He contacted…
Hisarlik is Turkish for ‘place of fortresses’, and to many the site of ancient Troy
Located in what was known as Anatolia. Hissarlik, is the Turkish name for an ancient city. It is part of Çanakkale, Turkey.An artificial hill, or tell. It is elevated in layers over an original site. Some of the earliest literacy work of Europe, the Iliad mentions Ilion and was probably Hisarlik. It is especially mentioned…
Akrotiri (prehistoric city) was destroyed in the Theran eruption, in the 16th century, and buried and preserved in ash
Sleeping volcanosThere is a variety of evidence about the eruption that destroyed Akrotiri. It probably ocured between 1620 and 1530 BC. Did you know? Records in material cultures, and unusual growth patterns of tree rings actually suggest there could have been multiple eruptions. HistoryA small fishing and farming village. The earliest neolithic evidence in Akrotiri…
To many, neolithic Kefalari or Κεφαλάρι was spring, lit, or abundant gushing water
In Argolis is Kefalari. On the northern border of the “Plain of Argos”. Near Peloponnese, at the Argolic Gulf. . It was a significant neolithic era spot. Not far from the area was the pyramid of Hellikon. Experts agree it was probably built around 4000 years ago. Though hard to carbon date the stones, there…
Whats known regarding the origin of covid-19, and, what remains a unknown?
During 2021, a world health organizations team was tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus. Including their security personnel to keep a watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Remaining unknown. The precise origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes covid-19, continues to be a source of contentious debate. Two theories dominate. Infection from animals;…
Franchthi Cave was used for around 35,000 years, and is one of the thoroughly studied sites from southeast Europe.
Last occupied around 3,000 BC (or, final neolithic), a major archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay, in the Argolic Gulf, opposite the village of Kiladha is in southeastern Argolis, in Greece. Humans first occupied the cave during the paleolithic era. Appearing around 38,000 BC (and possibly earlier.) Groups continued to live in, or seasonally visit the…
Theopetra Cave has the oldest example of a man made structure dated to around 21000bc
Located in the Meteora municipality, Theopetra Cave is a limestone cave located in Thessaly, Greece. It is situated on the northeast side of a limestone rock formation that is 3 km (2 mi) south of Kalambaka. The site has become increasingly important as human presence is attributed to all periods of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic…
Cyclops Cave (Yioura)
Also called the Cave of the Cyclops, off the coast of Thessaly in Greece is the location of a uninhabited islet of Youra, in the Northern Sporades. Its archaeological site has evidence of human occupation through the mesolithic and late neolithic periods. Later material, such as roman lamps were discovered there. Led by Adamantios Sampson,…
Cave bear are ursus spelaeus. 40-24,000 years ago. They were displaced, similar to modern pests.
A prehistoric species of bear lived in Europe, Russia and the middle east during the Pleistocene. It became extinct around 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum and during the growth of cave sites from humans and neanderthals. Both the word cave and the scientific name spelaeus are used because fossils of this species…
Megaloceros giganteus had 88lb antlers. They are known as irish elk, or in greek: μεγαλος megalos “great” κερας keras “horn, antler”
The Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus), or giant deer is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros. It is one of the largest deer that ever lived. Its range extended across Eurasia. From Ireland, to Lake Baikal in Siberia. During the pleistocene. The most recent remains of the species have been carbon dated 7000…
Bats are small, flying mammals from the order Chiroptera.
Of the many species found in north American states and Canadian provinces, almost all are insectivores that feed on vast numbers of night-flying insects. This makes them an important part of the ecological community.In most cases, bats don’t cause problems for home, business owners or farmers. That is because of their nocturnal habits, you will…
The neolithic age came rather late to different regions of earth. Especially in the north.
To one, during the Weichselian glaciation, almost 115,000 till about 11,700 years ago. Scandinavia begin the deep unfreezing from ice cover. It is decided that, in Denmark, the Ice Age finally ended about 9,700 years ago. About 15,000 to 13,000 BC years ago. The ice sheet, that covered almost all of Scandinavia, slowly began to…
In greek, teratornis merriami, teratornis woodburnensis and maybe even a teratornis olsoni from Cuba are known as “wonder birds”
Terratornis was a genus of huge North American birds of prey. Taxonomy:1) Teratornis merriami: Because of the numbers foud at Rancho La Brae and the tar pits, is is by far the most researched species. Over a hundred specimens have been found. It stood about almost 30inches (or 75cm) tall with estimated wingspan of almost…
In 1867, in a field in Denmark, a little boy discovered something magical. Hindsgavl Dagger is Hindsgavldolken
It was immediately brought to the property managers attention. He offered the boy the equivelant of 90 dollars, and he couldn’t refuse. The manager then gifted it to the owner of the estate. Basse Fonss of Hinsgavl Manor. Hingsgavl manor was apart of the Hindsgavl. It’s the pieces of land that connect Frederica and Middlefart (centre…
In local Inuktitut language, the arctic ground squirrel is known from the thril it emits when being threatened “t’sik-t’sik”
Found in the Arctic and Subarctic of North America and Asia. Arctic ground squirrel is mostly identified as Urocitellus parryii; or, in Inuktitut: ᓯᒃᓯᒃ, siksik. People in Alaska, particularly around the Aleutians, refer to them as “par’kee” squirrels. Most likely because they are easy to snare, shoot or trap. There pelt is also…
Discovered around 1904, nothrotheriops shastensis is the Shasta ground sloth. Giving you the fancy name and statistics you see here today.
In northern California, paleontologist William Sinclair is believed to identified nothrotheriops shastensis fossils during an exploration at Potter Creek Cave. These first identified fossils included a incomplete mandibular ramus, 14 molars, and a few other bits and pieces. They were sent to the university of California museum of Paleontology giving us the name and statistics…
Found in Europe and Asia, the woolly rhino is paying homage to greek and Europeon tradition as ceolodonta antiquitatis or “hollow-tooth of antiquity”
Many European cave paintings from the upper paleolithic (Pleistocene) depict woolly rhino. As perhaps the more memorable and favorite Pleistocene megafauna of Europe. Probably due to the red orches, and plants, rock and charcoil combinations that were available some even black. The most famous drawings in one area found are south eastern Czech Republic. An…
Font-de-Gaume is a well known cave in south west France
Located near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne department.Font-de-Gaume cave contents contain paintings in several colours dating to almost 30,000 years. While exploring the area, in 1901 Denis Peyrony discovered the paintings. Prehistoric people lived in the Dordogne valley around 25000 thousand years ago. The cave was inhabited for several thousand years. Something must have happened.…
Cap Blanc rock shelter is a limestone rock shelter with sculptures, and magdalenian women. It is in the west of France.
In 1908 Cap Blanc was discovered under supervision, while others worked nearby uncovering Lascaux and the Lascaux cave. While digging they found one of the most impressive carvings from the upper paleolithic.Following the uncovering of this, the carving and additional frieze, in 1911, they built protective walls around the area. It included lowering the floor.…
In the environment surrounding Eyzies-de-Tayac Sireuil village. Lascaux is located some distance from the major concentrations of decorated caves and inhabited sites. With cave drawings estimated to 16 or 17 thousand years.
The area has no fewer than 37 decorated caves and shelters, as well as an even greater number of habitation sites from the upper paleolithic (cave man) era. These sites are the highest concentration in Europe.Geologically, the Vézère drainage basin covers one fourth of the département of the Dordogne (river). At its centre point, the…
History of log cabin building
Log cabins have been affiliated with almost anything living. However more often than not, it has been the ancient history in Europe and the early settlers in the eastern US and Canadian wilderness. When do you think humans started log cabin building?In Northern Europe or Russia, there are cabins from 3 or 4 thousand years…
Altamira cave is in Spain, and very well known.
Formed in the twisting calcareous rock passages of Mount Vispieres. Around 13,000 years ago a rockfall sealed the Altamiras entrance. Its contents were preserved until its eventual discovery, which occurred after a nearby tree fell and disturbed the fallen rocks. It was 1868 was when Modeso Cubillas discovered the Altamira cave. The cave is approximately…
Grotte Chauvet-point d’arc is Chauvet Cave located in SE France with cave drawings more than 30,000 years ago.
Its soft clay-like floor retains the paw prints of cave bears along with large, rounded depressions that are believed to be the “nests” where the Europen cave bears slept. In Grotte Chauvet-point d’arc, fossilized bones are abundant, and include the skulls of cave bears, and the horned skull of an ibex. Located near the commune…
Плейстоценовый парк, or Pleistocene Park. In NE Siberia an attempt to re-create subarctic steppe grasses to help reduce greenhouse gases, climate change & a better more significant world is taking place.
Family members Sergey Zimov, and Nikita Zimov are testing a big hypothesis. Repopulating with large herbivores (and predators) can restore rich grasslands ecosystems. And, that if overhunting, and not climate change was primarily responsible for the pleistocene epoch, quanternary, or big event 11,700 years ago. Another main aim, is to research the changes expected by…
Paul Schultz Martin
Paul Schultz Martin (born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1928 – died in Tucson, Arizona September 13, 2010 ) was a well known American geoscientist at the University of Arizona. He developed the theory that the worldwide pleistocene extinction was caused by overhunting humans. His work bridged the hardworking fields of ecology, anthropology, geosciences, and paleontology. In…
Tim Flannery has written more than 27 books including Future eaters & Topics on climate change. He was awarded Australian of the year in 2007.
Titles include: mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist, and scientist.Flannery is a supporter of renewable energy, phasing out coal power and rewilding. He was raised as a regular kid near Melbourne. At a young age he became aware of marine pollution and its effect on the ecosystem. Later he earned a under…
Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings from 13,000 years ago.
It is located in Montesquieu-Avantès, in the Ariège département. Near the Spanish border. The cave is named for three brothers (French: trois frères), Max, Jacques, and Louis Begouën, who, along with their father Comte Henri Begouën, discovered it and the signigifance in 1914. Big info:One of the paintings, known as “The Sorcerer”, is the “most…
Kapova Cave, known as Shul’gan’tash. A limestone karst cave in the southern Urnal mountains. It’s known for 16,000 year cave drawings.
Kapova cave (Капова пещера), Shul’gan-Tash ( капающая вода), dripping water, or Шүлгәнташ in Bashkir. It is a limestone karst cave in the Burzyansky District of Bashkortostan. About 200 km (120 mi) south-east of the city of Ufa, above Kazakhstan. It is in the southern Ural mountains. In Bashkir tradition. Shulgan was mostly negatively attributed. To…
Times of our lives 3?: 100$ pieces of plastic w/ copper, lithium and precious metals. Maybe we don’t know what fun is anymore
There was a time when we valued $100 pieces of plastic w/ copper and precious metals. Combined with disease, and vaccines, so corporations could amount mass data. A microchipped robotic digital future. Yet we don’t know much past 5 or 6 thousand years. 30,000 years and beyond. Almost nothing. Who and what were these people?…
Time of our lives 2: Boats
Tens of thousands of years ago, the idea of building different types of water transport started. Like log rafts, bundle (or boyant) rafts; and, log, plank, bark, hide, pottery, bundle, or basketry boats. It may have originated in one area. And, from there, ballooned out. What are prehistoric boats? The earliest log boat is dated…
A gault age archaeology find in NE New Mexico sets unprecedented records for the area and continent: 37,000 years
New Mexico Mammoth Bones from 37,000 years ago almost double the amount of time humans have occupied North America. Hiking at the Colorado Plateau in northern New Mexico, a man spotted a chunk of tusk protruding from the surface. Overlooking a professors home. When investigated, an extensive collection of broken and scattered mammoth bones were…
Times of our lives: neolithic hunting history. What’s considered life stories of ancestry, when most of history was before writing?
Is it insights gained from archaeology, climate and the environment? Were the happiest humans truly those strong and most willing to find and hunt woolly rhino or mammoth? Giant cats, bears, dog, sloth and armadillo? Were they big tough Log and stone builders?? Large enough to keep a living space warm and pest free? What…
Doggerland: 8247-8192 years ago, the storegga slide was a landslide that involved an estimated 180 mile length of coastal shelf in the Norwegian Sea which caused a large tsunami.
There had long been talk of a secret bank, and group of men inhabiting a land stretched far and wide. In Greece, legends spoke of it, receding from the last glacial maximum, from northern Spain; to England, Ireland, Scotland; between, France, Holland; and extending thu Germany to even Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 1931, a…
Panthera onca augusta, commonly known as the ‘giant jaguar’, is a species of jaguar that survived almost 2 million years ago, until about 11,700 years ago.
Skeletal parts, including jaws and teeth, of the giant jaguar was discovered on the Platte river, of Nebraska, in 1827, by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. He sent it to Joesph Leidy, at the academy of natural sciences in Philidelphia. Who was working on identifying some of the recent pleistocene megafauna discoveries. Beginning around the 1840s, more…
Giant short faced bear: arctodus simus
Does something standing 12 feet tall, weighing 1500lbs, and that can travel 40 miles per hour entice you. How about limb crushing, vice like teeth designed for shearing? Would you be afraid? The Fastest Running Bear That Ever LivedIn quaternary North America, the late pleistocene represents the peak of ursid diversity. The giant short-faced bear…
Bonu Ighinu culture or phase, is a 7100 to 6500 year old neolithic culture from the north west of Sardinia
A middle neolithic, pre-Nuragic culture takes the name from a locality in the municipality of Mara. In the province of Sassari. Sardinia.The area, is near, the cave of Sa de Ucca of Tintirriolu (the mouth of the bat). At least 45 sites are known in the culture. All across the island, only avoiding the central…
Neolithic Architecture, Newgrange, Ireland
It is said the white quartz stones on the side, and skylights or the ‘roof box’ at Newgrange reflected light. Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú) is a 1.1 acre prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne. It was built around 3200 BC. The main monument in the…
Snowmastodon: Oct 14, 2010, fossils were discovered by accident during the construction of a reservoir to supply Snowmass ski village with water.
The Snowmastodon site, or ‘Ziegler reservoir fossil site’ brought in crews from the museum of nature & science along with construction crews. Nearing completion, in one year, 36,000 vertebrate fossils (including mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, horses, camels and deer), were discovered. Approximately 3,000 of them were mastodons. The site holds the record for the most…
New Mexico white sands fossilized footprints – 21,000-23,000 years ago
Latest research shows humans have been living in an area of southern new Mexico for around 22,000 years. It was previously thought that humans arrived in the area closer to 13,500 – 16,000 years ago. But recently analyzed foot prints found at White Sands, the Tularosa Basin and former Lake Otero are the latest. During…
Neolithic Architecture, 300 million years of Beetles
This species, nearly 300 million years old, is estimated hundreds of millions years older, than humans. The Coleoptera (beetles), with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms, and growing. Even the curculionidae (weevils), with some 83,000 member species, belong to…
Sabre tooth cats, most recognized from the giant find at Los Angeles La Brae tar pits, has a genus name that comes from Brazilian fossils in 1842.
It has long be questioned about cats being social, or not. One thing was for sure, sabre tooth cats, had more developed forelimbs and teeth (long upper canines) than some. There are 3 species of sabre tooth cats in North and South America, two derived from one: Mostly N/ America:Smilodon gracilis, 20-220lbSmilodon fatales, 350-620lb; (replaced…
Neolithic architecture article on Dolmens in Japan, Popular Mechanics 1880, By Edward Morse
THOUGH a large amount of material has been collected and published regarding the megalithic structures of Europe, their classification is in a somewhat unsatisfactory condition.The misery of the systematist has already made itself apparent in synonyms for a well-known class of monuments—namely, the dolmens. To make the matter more perplexing, structures of quite a different…
Neolithic Architecture: What caused all the megaliths, and age neolithic?
Climate change, and extinctions. Tidal waves, volcano’s, floods, fire; comets, and possible earth axis shift. What a combination. We don’t even know. After a catastrophe 11,700 years ago, the exodus of human beings. Vindicated a massive construction of megalithic structures. Which in turn, intended to preserve health, and neolithic conditions. One of these structures is…
Neolithic Architecture Masterpiece: Dolmen of Menga, Antequera, Spain
Found mostly in Britain and France. Dolmens are megalithic tombs with a large flat stone laid on upright ones. Its word origin is mid 19th century. From French, or perhaps via Breton, from Cornish. Dolmen is a ‘hole of a stone’. Yet, this form of Neolithic Architecture is in modern Spain.In the south, a long…
Neolithic Site: El Fin del Mundo (‘End of the Earth), Sonora, Mexico
University of Arizona researchers preciously found El Fin del Mundo (‘End of the Earth’) not that long ago, in 2007. Yet it is recognized for a huge amount of reasons. It is the first discovery of humans and gomphotheres in North America. The radiocarbon dating also makes it, along with ‘Aubrey site’, in north Texas,…
Giant beaver (castoroides ohioensis)
Depicted in everything from hunting/trapping and fur trading, to fantasy stories and causing grief in and around everyones of water. In Latin: “beaver” (castor), “like” (oides), or giant beaver, are giant rats with large flat tails. They are an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beaver that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Desciption:Species of…
Hong Kongs Neolithic Architecture
Sai Kung, at Wong Ten Tung, an area in Hong Kong. Archeologists claim, there may have been a stone making tool site, from over 30,000 years ago. In another area, the Sham Chung, beside tree fathoms cove, recently there were more than 6000 artifacts found, in a slope. Begaining in the true “neolithic era”. Cheung…
What is Neolithic; and Neolithic Architecture
Neolithic Arch on YouTube Neolithic is based in Greek νέος néos or ‘new;’ and, λίθος líthos or ‘stone’. Architecture, is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings. Or;The complex or carefully designed structure of something. north American neolithic south American neolithic Australian neolithic African neolithic Eurasia neolithic login/create account
Neolithic Architecture: Skara Brae
On the largest island, of Orkneys, in Scotland, are 10 homes made of earth dammed flagstone.Included are stone hearths, beds, and cupboards and because of the preservation of earth dammed flagstone, It is still one of Europes most complete Neolithic villages. They even had stone sewers that took water to and from the ocean. How…
Neolithic site: Watson Brake
Near present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, is the neolithic site Watson Brake. Making it older than stonehenge and some pyramids, it is estimated 3-4 thousand years old. It is the most ancient ‘earth mound complex’ in North America. It is recognized as a hunter-gatherer society, though believed to have also done maize cultivation with an organizational…
Neolithic tar sands, in Los Angeles: Rancho La Brea
La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Natural asphalt (asphaltum, bitumen, pitch, or tar) was found near Hancock Park. Dating from at least 3500 BC, the tar preserved the bones of trapped Neolithic animals. Bitumen lines, from the crude oil, seep up along the 6th Street Fault from…
Harlans ground sloth
Many animals, from the very large to the odd lived during the ice age. Harlan’s Ground Sloth seems to be one of the most bizarre animals from that era. A mix of large and odd, these large, furry animals are related to modern sloths, armadillos, and anteaters. Unlike its smaller modern cousin, Harlan’s ground sloths…
8 general characteristics of the neolithic revolution:
The neolithic revolution, was also called the pottery, agricultural, farming, ranching, art, tool making and building revolution. It was amazing. Scientists believed the earth entered a warming trend around 14,000 years ago. And, wild grains begin to grow more rapidly. Neolithic humans, who used stone tools like earlier ancestors. Were then able to farm, produce…
Top 5 advantages of log cabins
-Fir, spruce, pine & cedar logs are abundantly sourced nearby;-Grade A (>12”) logs have excellent strength to weight ratio, and work excellent with other materials;-Logs greater than 18” diameter provide decent R values, even without chinking;-On average takes and costs less time offering valuable savings; and,-Log cabin building is an excellent team building exercise, and…
During the neolithic age, Cissbury ring was a large flint mine in Sussex, England
Cissbury Ring is the largest hill fort in Sussex, the second largest in England. At 60 acres, or 24 hectares. It is one of the largest in Europe overall. The earthworks that form the fortifications were built around the beginning of the areas middle iron age. Possibly around 250 BC. They were abandoned not long…
Neolithic Architecture: What is a Mastodon?
A mastodon (mastós ‘breast’ + odoús ‘tooth’), are proboscidean beings, that belong to the extinct genus Mammut. It is believed mastodons may have went extinct around the Neolithic revolution 10,000-12,000 years ago, due to a flood; over hunting; or a combination of factors. login/create account
A brief history, & methods of metallurgy
In the bible it talks about god creating the earth in 7 days. While its no doubt some of those things are came from elsewhere, or outer space. Did you know that, one of earths other greatest discoveries, came from outer worlds? Colin Renfrews before civilization: Radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe, outlines the development of…
The still small voice of conscience – Joel Skousen
When you finish reading this, you may not view life in quite the same way again—even if you are indifferent about, or passionately dislike what I have to say. I do not claim or presume that the reader will actually change what they are–that’s a more difficult and individualized process—but what I do claim is…
North American scimitar – homotherium serum
Following its favorite snack, the woolly mammoth, it was said north American scimitar toothed cats may have migrated across the bering land bridge and spread throughout north America. Discovery was by the famous French paleontologist Baron Cuvier, in 1824. He was the first to describe the serrated teeth of homotherium from deposits in France, thinking…
Abu Hureyra, Syria + archaeological evidence for domestication
In 1963, despite the fact the project would eventually flood dozens of modern villages and ancient sites. The government of Syrian Arab Republic, decided to create dams on upper Euphrates river. Culminating a series of excavation and archaeological rescue operations. Among them, an extraordinary neolithic site discovered Abu Hureyra.In a short span of less than…
American antelope: Pronghorn, or antilocapra americana is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central north America that is built for speed, and runs 90 km/h.
Though not an antelope, it is known in north Americas as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope and prairie antelope. It resembles the antelope and fills a similar ecological niche. It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. About 11 antilocaprid species existed in North America. During the pleistocene epoch three other…
Neolithic architecture & the peppered moth(s) genetics of domestication
Popular and common amongst insect collectors, the peppered moths, are easy to preserve, and maintain after death. How easily though, there populations can adapt to new conditions in times of environmental stress. Before 1850, the moths were speckled light grey, after 1850, peppered moths, started turning darker, almost totally black. Was it evolution through natural…
Bison latafrons was the long horned bison, bison antiquus ancient bison, and bison bison is your modern bison.
The long horn bison went extinct sometime around last glacial maximum 20-30,000 years ago. The first fossil described in north America was found in Kentucky (Peale 1803). Its range extended into many of the states including Colorado, New Mexico and others. The bison latafrons or ‘long horn bison’ horns were the longest recorded for the…
Prehistory covers the time from the middle paleolithic (old stone age) to the beginnings of ancient history.
Homo sapiens in Africa 315,000 years ago to the invention of writing, over 4,000 years ago. -320,000 to 305,000 years ago: Olorgesailie, in Southern Kenya modern advancements to lithic tools made. -315,000 years ago: appearance of homo sapiens in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. -250,000 years ago: appearance of saccopastore skulls and homo neanderthalensis. -210,000 years ago:…
Neolithic Anatolia, is Turkish: Anadolu. Is also known as Asia Minor, the western extent of Asia.
Its location centralizes between the intersections of Asia and Europe.8000 to 2000 BC Timeline 8000 BC to 6500 BCPre-Pottery Neolithic, 11,000–6900 BCPottery Neolithic, 6900–6400 BCÇatal Höyük, 6900–6500 BC 6500 BC to 5000 BCPottery Neolithic, 6900–6400 BCChalcolithic, 6400–3800 BCHalaf culture, 6000–5500 BCUbaid culture, 5000–4200 BCShulaveri-Shomu culture, 6000–4000 BC 5000 BC to 3500 BCChalcolithic, ca. 6400–3800 BCUbaid…
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Did your log cabin roof spring a leak? Is there now mould on the logs, mice and rodents are licking. Did the mould attract ants, termites and other pest? Are you trying to dry it out with the wood fireplace? Is the power out and do you need something sanitary to heat cloths, boil water,…
Hierarchy of disagreement: Using neolithic architecture to explicitly refute the central point
Extreme weather continues to increase, and life expectancy drop. Neolithic architecture (when humans learned the domestication of animals, and agriculture); pest control, chimney cleaning, and log cabin building are relevant. login/create account
Neolithic Architecture Daub: Obermeilen, and Robenhausen sites; Zurichsee, Bodensee, Wauwilwemoos lakes, Switzerland
During 1853-54, prolonged drought cause water in alpine lakes to drop 1 foot below lowest recorded levels.In winter 54’, men began to begin a “land reclamation project.” They uncovered a lake village.First of hundreds in alpine Europe. An enormous amount of building material preserved: remnants of wooden frames, plank floors, wattle and white walls, with…
Neolithic Architecture: Was earth really flat? Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchus (c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician, who presented the first heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the universe, with Earth revolving around it. After realizing the sun was much larger than the earth and the other planets, Aristarchus concluded that planets revolved around the…
Neolithic Architecture: Kimmswick Bone Bed, Jefferson County Missouri
Neolithic Site 32km SW of St. Louis. In upper Mississippi valley, 2.5km west of Mississippi River, at confluence of 4 North American drainage basins (upper Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee rivers). Where 30% of American contiguous land mass is drained.Mastodon remains were identified, including butchering and human presence.Laurentide ice sheet appears to have reach its…
Many people claimed to analyze stainless steel first. Here are some of the facts:
-Discovery of chromium was in 1797 by Louis Nicholas Vauquelin;-Development of ferrochromium was by Pierre Berthier in 1821. Though it was was weak. With high carbon content. Productions mostly failed;-A provisional British patent was obtained for an “acid- and weather-resistant” steel alloy with ~31% chromium in 1872. Patent was never filed;-Hans Goldschmidt developed a method…
Lithic technologies: if you hit it hard enough, something is bound to happen
Lithic technology involves hitting two stones, or hard objects together, and making tools. All stones are made up of minute crystals that can only be seen with a microscope, know as cryptocrystalline. This and conchoidal fractures make up good lithic technology. Conchoidal fractures are described as smooth, curved breaks from the base stone. Stones that…
In neolithic Greeces Sesklo culture, the Gorgon masks protruding tongue with boar tusks, puffy cheeks, eyeballs fixed & snakes twisting around her head may have originated
Greece and Sesklo had wonderful clay, great stone and good fuel supply. Because of this, they excelled at pottery, ceramics and thus the neolithic age.The prehistoric settlement of Sesklo is situated near the modern village of the same name, 15 kilometres to the southwest of Volos. In Thessaly. Excevations here have dated the habitation to…
Kennewick man skeleton and Beringia theory
In 1996, two college students in Kennewick, Washington, stumbled on 9400 year old human bones, eroding out of the banks of the Columbia river. Denmark scientists were able to extract DNA from the skeleton. They found it was more common to “native North Americans”, than any of the other populations worldwide. Beringia theory purposed people…
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