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12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed
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#42Here's to another year of the word Göbeklitepe playing on repeat in my head.
Go Becky Teppy
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#43What a crazy week for old things discovered this statue at Göbekli Tepe and the 400,000 year-old notched lumber beams in Zambia. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772
Wow, didn't see that Zambia one, that's big news to me. Question - how can they prove that someone in more recent times didn't notch more ancient wood?
As I understand it, in that case it is by dating the age of the materials the wood in question was buried in. The minerals are dated using luminescence dating. That tells you when those particles were last exposed to sunlight.
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#45Two things: how is is dated? and was that NSFW 12000 years ago?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. > Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory The big deal is that these art works are far more sophisticated that anything else we have seen so early.
This is one common definition of the term history, but it's not a very good one and largely relegated to outdated encyclopedia entries rather than describing how professionals investigate history. It's very poor as a technical definition. For instance, does "history" in an area start when someone writes something, or does the writing have to survive to the present day? Does only one person need to write, or does it n…
look, you can quibble all you want about how the rest of the world is misusing a word, but at the end of the day you're in the minority here.
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#49That's not what I consider a "realistic human statue" ?
Can you think of any artistic depiction of a human from that era that is more detailed? Humans in cave paintings are basically stick men.
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#50> featuring a lifelike facial expression Notice that, although it was a completely alien culture in a very far away time, before agriculture and writing, we still know what a lifelike facial expression looks like. Many things vary from culture to culture. Facial expressions, at least many of them, are consistent across humanity. If someone stubs their toe or tastes something delicious, you'll know without words. Look…
How many of these universals are shared with other mammals (especially apes)?