OK, I'm wicked, I admit it! But the path through the concepts of "dating" and "fireplace" made me think of this "fondue" meme, which best reflects today's msm narrative:
Forgive me, SC! (and check out the cat).
Posted on 06/11/2024 10:29:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of archaeologists in Spain has applied a new dating technique to more precisely determine the intervals between hearth fires from the Paleolithic Age.
This research, published in the journal Nature, reveals that the hearths at El Salt, a Paleolithic site, were used over 200 years with intervals of decades between uses. This suggests that Neanderthals returned to this site over multiple generations, challenging previous assumptions about their mobility and settlement patterns...
a novel combination of archaeomagnetic and archaeostratigraphic analyses... leverages the magnetic properties of minerals in the fire pits to record the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at the time they were last used. These magnetic signatures, combined with the stratigraphic analysis of the hearths' positions in the ground layers, allowed the researchers to establish a timeline with remarkable precision.
The team discovered that the six hearths at El Salt were created over a period of 200 to 240 years, with gaps of decades or even a century between their uses. This suggests that Neanderthals were not just wandering nomads but had specific sites they revisited regularly, possibly for seasonal activities or specific resources...
The controlled use of fire, a fundamental human skill dating back at least 790,000 years, is a critical aspect of this study. The presence of stone tools, animal bones, and other artifacts alongside the hearths provided additional context for interpreting the Neanderthals' lifestyle.
The research underscores that Neanderthals, who went extinct around 40,000 years ago, had complex social behaviors and were not as primitive as often depicted. The regular use of specific sites over centuries indicates a level of planning and social structure previously underestimated.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologymag.com ...
Romantolithic...
The poor paleofolks didn’t have smores, though.
It’s a valid point.
Making valid points is something the stone age folks were quite good at. :^)
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OK, I'm wicked, I admit it! But the path through the concepts of "dating" and "fireplace" made me think of this "fondue" meme, which best reflects today's msm narrative:
Forgive me, SC! (and check out the cat).
Satellite data reveal electromagnetic anomalies up to 19 days before 2023 Turkey earthquake
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-reveal-electromagnetic-anomalies-days.html
Thanks BenLurkin. Long live rocks.
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