Modern humans carry neanderthal DNA. 

And then, there’s this:

When you consider that homo sapiens has been around for about 300 thousand years, this is not too, too surprising. Neanderthals apparently just didn’t have what it takes, but the genetic material they contributed to us may have played a part.

I took a junior college level course four or five years ago in Cultural Anthropology. I don’t remember any sites in this topic mentioned in the text book, although (apparently) we started discovering these sites in the 1990s.

From ChatGPT, my query:
in what areas of the world are we finding new evidence of human, neolithic (or earlier)…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie

Using LIDAR and other means, it’s been discovered that Gobekli Tepe, while being perhaps the most important complex, is far from the only one. I’m sure several dozen lesser sites have been found in the vicinity. Also, there are other recently discovered sites, notably Karahan Tepe and Mendik Tepe, which seem to be even…[Read more]

@JakeLafort

Yo —
I ain’t forget, nah, I etched it in graphite,
That afternoon light, like fate in a fistfight.
Street was a stage, collision was script—
Didn’t see it then, but the ink don’t slip.

Heart got jacked like a beat in the mix,
Love scribbled sharp in a moment that sticks.
Organs strung out, nerves all twisted,
Lines got blurred,…[Read more]

Wow. First thought, they must have been able to find a lot of meat; second thought there must have been a lot more natural, edible plants back then. I confirmed with AI, and saw lots of other good info and research on this topic. While “only 5%” of this area has been dug up! And there are some similar sites not far away.

Anthropological history…[Read more]