Simon Paynton

It is remarkable that a flourishing and sophisticated human civilization existed at Gesher Benot Yaʽaqov some 780,000 years ago. They had a controlled use of fire, the ability to organize and hunt and gather a broad spectrum of food types.

What is most remarkable is that ‘only’ 120,000 years earlier, our human lineage had undergone a severe gene…[Read more]

It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage.  He tends to creep into these conversations.

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]

@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]

That all makes sense. Yes, you’re a good writer. Here, only Jake invokes more esoteric vocab and poetic-licensed creativity. Enco kinda does that too, but I don’t have the time to look up a lot of his historic references. History was my worst percentile score in high school, along with other Humanities. (Just IMO; I try not to declare truths for…[Read more]