[SunkenCiv]

General view of El Salt site, with the travertine wall on the right.

Credit: Herrejón-Lagunilla et al., Nature (2024)

[xoxox]

new dating technique

research results inconclusive.

[Menehune56]

[marktwain]

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 pattern suggests to me that wandering bands of Neandertals rediscovered the site and put it back into use, from time to time.

Gaps of "decades or even a century" over about 220 years indicate it wasn't used very often.

[Reno89519]

What a misleading title! I was expecting some new Paleo dating techniques.

[Albion Wilde]

When the headline said “New dating technique”, I was expecting something a little less paleolithic...

;-)

[BenLurkin]

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