Tag: Prehistory
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How Human Civilization Began
A study by Turney and Brown links the 8,500-years-ago drainage to the expansion of agriculture from east to west across Europe; they suggest that this drainage may also account for various flood myths of ancient cultures, including the Biblical flood narrative. — Read on kottke.org/26/11/how-human-civilization-began
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Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion
Draw one random life from the more than 100 billion humans who have ever lived. Every detail sourced. — Read on anyhumanever.com/
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings | Archaeology | The Guardian
Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before…