forbidden archeology

[ben ttech]

years ago i went to a practioner
not sure what exactly
elderly asian women,

she gave an aggressive massage
your lying on a mat on the floor and shes using her foot to push on you

it ends up with the foot treatment
she'd a short table with several worn bones and sticks

she proceeded to use one to fucking dig into the sides of my toes
working her tool up and down

excruciating
after a while she asked 'why dont you cry?'

'um,
didnt think i should,
should i?'

'yes'

ok...

[ben ttech]

wish i could find it
last week some news about one of the oldest battle sites know in europe
100 plus bodies so far
many bones with arrowheads imbedded in them

the article had one picture
it was the inside of a cranium with the point of an arrowhead protruding out of the bone a good inches

tip intact...

[ben ttech]

Sweet potato evidence in Polynesian pushed back to 1299ad. Previously it was in the low 14hundreds…


https://phys.org/news/2024-09-unexpecte ... e_vignette

[dill786]

Funny Ben you mentioned the sweet potatoes

Was just watching this new vid about Easter Island and it Johanna mentioned it...
Really great video and a fresh look at the history of the island,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Pj96u ... yOldeWorld

[ben ttech]

its more than just sweet potato's
megaliths and dna both show south american influence of EARLY Polynesian spread.

theyd brought things back from south america before their colonys reached hawaii...

[ben ttech]

If the artwork is found to truly be of a dicynodont – a species which went extinct before dinosaurs – then the San people’s depiction could predate the first scientific description of the ancient beasts by at least 10 years.

“The painting was made in 1835 at the latest, which means this dicynodont was depicted at least ten years before the western scientific discovery and naming of the first dicynodont by Richard Owen in 1845,” said study co-author Julien Benoit.

“This work supports that the first inhabitants of southern Africa, the San hunter-gatherers, discovered fossils, interpreted them and integrated them in their rock art and belief system.”



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/my ... d11&ei=110

[dill786]

An 18-ton limestone sculpture of a lamassu, dating back to the reign of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721-705 BC), discovered in northern Iraq by an Iraqi-French archaeological team. Lamassu, mythical creatures with human heads, bull bodies, and eagle wings, symbolized intelligence and strength.

This sculpture, once located at the entrance of the ancient city of Dur-Sharrukin (modern-day Khorsabad), had its head separated from the body, possibly due to looting in the 1990s. However, the rest of the body is in excellent condition and is now housed in the Baghdad Museum.

[Butcher Bob]

Saw this interesting y/t short...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I6acQU7emcI

Japan?
Curious aboot where? when? who? etc.
Certainly seems monolithic.

[ben ttech]

The first people to migrate into the Americas, likely more than 16,000 years ago, probably traveled down the western coast rather than along an inland route, according to an environmental study of two lakes in British Columbia, Canada. The inland path from the Bering Strait to the continental United States and South America would have been a 900-mile-long, ice-free corridor between the Cordilleran ice sheet that covered the coastal mountain ranges to the west and the Laurentide ice sheet that covered the plains to the east. The lakes in the study are located in what was once a “bottleneck” between glaciers. A multinational team of scientists examined pollen and DNA samples from sediment cores taken near the lakes, and used a technique called metagenomics to get a highly detailed picture of how the ice-free corridor ecosystem developed over time. Rather than looking for DNA from a single species, metagenomics involves sequencing every bit of DNA in a sample to better understand entire ecosystems. “The level of diversity we can uncover with DNA technology is more extensive than people have recovered in the fossil record,” says Eske Willerslev of the Center for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen.

The researchers found that the corridor would not have been open before 14,700 years ago, and did not develop a stable ecosystem capable of supporting even small game until about 12,600 years ago. The metagenomic analysis revealed—among other things—traces of mammoth, bison, eagle, salmon, and beaver DNA from the ecosystem once it had matured. But this was thousands of years after the first Americans arrived, and means that they must have taken a different path. Next, Willerslev and the team hope to sample sites along the west coast of Canada and the United States to confirm their suspicions that this was the only viable route of entry.


https://archaeology.org/issues/november ... migration/

[ben ttech]

There are places along the Alaskan and Canadian west coast where sea level has carried only a few feet post the end of the last ice ages end.

Although mean sea level increased in those hundreds of years the ice melting off the great ice sheets which had eons ago covered those coasts meant enough last weight that the crust plates there rebounded given the buoyancy the ice had suppressed

Personally I think that given we have several locations in the americas humans show up much older than 20thousand years ago; the earliest arrivals had had to have skirted the edge of ice sheets hundreds of miles beyond the coast lines


Both across the pacific but also the North Atlantic