The genetic and linguistic migration of the sweet potato from the Americas to East Asia long before Europeans had travelled to either place.
Originally shared by Jeff Zahari
Can’t comment on how the science holds up here (and skeptical of their account of how the population got fairer), but it’s a striking reconstruction.
Once again, facts overturning our assumptions. Now we have to wonder about the gender of the artists who drew those bison and horse pictures.
Originally shared by Jeff Zahari
“The first step in the process showed that only 10 percent of the handprints on cave walls in Spain and France were left by adult males. The second step indicates that 15 percent were placed by adolescent males, leaving 75 percent of the handprints female.”
Originally shared by Jeff Zahari
“Everywhere one looks, one finds Churchill dripping blood from his mouth.”
Not long after the Clovis people first set foot in the Americas, the Japanese were already making pottery such as this. This is pottery from the Jomon period. These pots are between 9,000 and 13,000 years old.
Technology such as this wasn’t known in the West until around 6000 BC although it had been independently invented in sub-Saharan around 10,000 BC.
Exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum.
Originally shared by Phys.org
Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago – Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.
A loaf of bread from 70AD, carbonised by the intense heat of a volcanic eruption. Still clearly visible is the baker’s stamp as well as the scoring marks for pulling it into separate pieces.
National Archaeological Museum of Naples
This carpet was found in Russia frozen in permafrost. It was made circa 500 BC.
It seems that only capitalists and neocons are marking this centenary. In denying its own history, the Left only demonstrates how broken and weak it has become.
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