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amazes me how their ancestors learned to live that way and thrive in such a climate
Yea, humans, I guess a synonym could be "survivor" (anyplace on earth)
The evolution of anatomically #modernhumans took place during the #Pleistocene
The #Pleistocene (the #IceAge) is the geological epoch that lasted from about 3 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations
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My spouse and I watched the first episode of the third season of Prehistoric Planet tonight and loved it.
I wish mammoths still existed. They’re like very fuzzy elephants. (Or maybe elephants are like much less hairier mammoths?)
#PrehistoricPlanet #FilmMastodon #History #Science #Mammoth #IceAge #Pleistocene
This late Middle #Pleistocene MSA site in S #Tunisia looks very interesting given how cutting edge the Moroccan sites are.
The late Middle Pleistocene, starting at around 300 ka, witnessed large-scale biological and cultural dynamics in hominin evolution across Africa including the onset of the Middle Stone Age that is closely associated with the evolution of our species—Homo sapiens. However, archaeological and geochronological data of its earliest appearance are scarce. Here we report on the late Middle Pleistocene sequence of Wadi Lazalim, in the Sahara of Southern Tunisia, which has yielded evidence for human occupations bracketed between ca. 300–130 ka. Wadi Lazalim contributes valuable information on the spread of early MSA technocomplexes across North Africa, that likely were an expression of large-scale diffusion processes.
🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.
#Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience
SW China funerary #ochre record of the terminal #Pleistocene.
This correctly refs article by our colleague @ochrewatts on the oldest anthropogenic ochre use up to half a million years ago in S Africa.
Although archeological findings have suggested the long history of ochre exploitation by humans, the cultural implications of prehistoric funerary ochre remain unclear due to a lack of in-situ preservation consisting of ochre, artifacts, and human skeletons. This paper aims to investigate how humans in southwestern China interacted with ochre minerals in the terminal Pleistocene. We collected a set of red remains from the Qingshuiyuan Dadong site, dating to ca. 11 cal ka BP, which have been identified as hematite using multiple geochemistry techniques. Combined with microscopic observation of grave goods and ethnographic investigations, our study suggests that the ochre was consciously applied to stone artifacts and placed in burials as a possible component of funerary rituals at that time. By further integrating their archeological context, we inferred the use of ochre could be a cultural link in a broader regions.
#FossilFriday, The Midwest’s #Homotherium! A partial skullcap, the first Homotherium specimen found in Minnesota, was recovered in 2008 from Tyson Spring Cave in Fillmore County.
The find, along with a Cervalces scotti skullcap, was later published by Chris Widga and colleagues in Boreas (Widga et al., 2012).
Images courtesy of: Illinois State Museum (Facebook), Tyson Spring Cave (Website), Widga et al. (2012, Boreas), and Mather (2009, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer)
#Pleistocene #LostBones
The importance of #scavenging in our #evolution.
I like the image which highlights factors like moonlight on hominin behaviour. #Pleistocene #lunar #ecology is the way to think!
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-carrion-human-importance-scavenging-evolution.html
A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations throughout their evolution. Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), are the lead authors of the article recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.
#Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #BisonOccidentalis #Palaeontology #Fossils #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience
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