200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
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#2“These prints, however, are more carefully made and have a specific arrangement—think more along the lines like how a child presses their handprint into fresh cement.” A good reminder of the fact that for all that society has changed we as people haven't really.
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#3It’s inspiring to get hints at what life was like back then when the universe was younger.
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#4It’s inspiring to get hints at what life was like back then when the universe was younger.
I think that even at the scale of “just” a two hundred thousand years, to the universe it’s probably just yesterday.
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#5Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.
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#7“These prints, however, are more carefully made and have a specific arrangement—think more along the lines like how a child presses their handprint into fresh cement.” A good reminder of the fact that for all that society has changed we as people haven't really.
It is interesting to see how people seem to intuitively experience joy from changing their environment, in particular when it seems to not serve any direct use.
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#9“These prints, however, are more carefully made and have a specific arrangement—think more along the lines like how a child presses their handprint into fresh cement.” A good reminder of the fact that for all that society has changed we as people haven't really.
It leaves me feeling very connected to think that across hundreds of thousands of year, you'll still find humans being humans. Creating handprint art has to be one of the most lasting and quintessentially human behaviors.
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#10It’s inspiring to get hints at what life was like back then when the universe was younger.
It was, (and still is), 40-50 million years since the mountains formed.