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Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
It’s sometimes pointed out when one argues that matriarchies simply don’t work that they worked in Polynesian societies.

The absence of patriarchy doesn’t necessarily imply a matriarchy. It implies egalitarianism.

Simon, I think you’re a classic reductonist. No matter what information you get, you fit it in.…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A bunch of hippies are smoking weed and chilling out….very calm and egalitarian. One of them opens a box of chocolate cookies. He becomes the leader. Humans just cannot cope without having a leader. And if he (or she) can do the thinking for them too, then the happier they all will be.

It’s sometimes pointed out w…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
It was probably a free anarchist state, with no hierarchy.  We assume that egalitarianism was the default position, and this is psychologically hard to break as each man and woman is as good as anyone else.

You are delusional. There will always be a power dynamic which results in the populace being divided in…[Read more]

@Reg

Science is coming around to the view that these pre-homo sapiens humans didn’t really fit the traditional “cave man” notion of stupid no account lunks. I mean, if bees and termites can have a social order and organize to create a place to live, why not human beings?

Simon Paynton wrote:
I’m sure that other species of human beings were capable of making settlements, if the conditions were temporarily right for it, i.e., if there were rich resources in one place, like next to a waterway or sea.  Culture – why not?  In the sense of making artwork.  I’m not sure they would have had cultural markers to mark the…

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What if the first signs of human civilization weren’t measured in thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years? What if archaeologists are finding evidence of human settlements and the rudiments of culture 800,000 years ago? That’s before we believe homo sapiens evolved.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Careful, or we’ll be joining Graham Hancock in talking about a long lost civilization and the so-called “Annunaki.”

You wonder how the Egyptians were able to move such large stones from the quarry site to the construction site?…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the S…

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The tombs in your viddies, Reg, date back 4900-5200 years ago, which is ancient, but only about half as ancient as Gobekli Tepe, which isn’t even the oldest site in Turkey, though it’s the most sophisticated of the ones we know.

Still, the understanding of the seasons, the universe, and stars of the Irish and other ancients (Mayans, Indians,…[Read more]

Modern humans carry neanderthal DNA. 

And then, there’s this:

@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]

PopeBeanie wrote:
But I take your opinion on guitar skills more seriously now that I know you had rock guitar experience. You’re not the only one wishing she’d focus more on solos.

I don’t wish that at all. If I have a wish, it’s for people to stop wishing she would take solos. The Warning’s orientation is songwriting, not dazzling us with ins…[Read more]

Another song ABOUT The Warning (Dany in particular).

and another third-party tribute to the band. This Warning tribute thing seems to be taking off.

PopeBeanie wrote:
WOW, fantastic fancam-based production! I think I see some on-stage taken cuts spliced in, although I see no credit given for them. (Unless a fan had great perspective and zoomability. I do see some lower-rez shots, which is fine.)

Yeah, I think if you watch you’ll see people with cameras off to the side, so it isn’t all…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie

I’m a rock and roller and like electric guitars and loudness. In a past life, I was a particular kind of photographer of women. I shot erotic nudes for websites and I ran several websites of my own to display my photographer. My style fell into the pro/am category: a pro photographer working with amateur models. I worked with many…[Read more]