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Most believe the paleolithic dog was domesticated 15 to 45 thousand years ago. And, that they were directly associated with human hunting camps. As proto dogs, or ancestors of the domestic dog. A genetically divergent wolf population
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Ancestors to modern dogs, wolves gradually adapted to human presence, and formed a mutually beneficial relationship with early human populations The timing and specific details of this process are a subjects of ongoing research and debate As humans settled out…
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Hilly Flanks is the area surrounding the fertile crescent. 10,000 years ago, agriculture may have originated here. Including in the Zargos, and Taurus mountains and there Highlands
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A gentle man named Robert Braidwood, coined the ‘hilly flanks’ term shortly after WW2He had done the un-ordinary. Purposing the neolithic revolution had begin in these areas. Because some of these areas may have received enough rainfall naturally. And, from snowfall.…
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Was earth really flat? Aristarchus of Samos
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Aristarchus (c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician, who presented the first heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the universe, with Earth revolving around it. After realizing the sun was much larger…
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Lithic technologies: if you hit it the right way, something good is bound to happen
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Lithic technology involves hitting two stones, or hard objects together, and making tools. All stones are made up of minute crystals that can only be seen with a microscope, know as cryptocrystalline. This and conchoidal fractures make up good lithic technology.…
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The clovis blade maybe a big culprit of megafauna extinction. Even earning a town a name in SE New Mexico
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > If it wasn’t the blade(s), and hard stiff shafts. It was the projectile enhancing atlatls, or throwing sticks; and groups, or packs of hunters that worked togetherWith their sticks, spears, points; rocks; and, other megafauna disabling devices. They could pin point,…
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List of Neolithic Settlements 2021
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > NameLocationCulturePeriodComment &Ref Tell QaramelSyria, LevantPre-Pottery Neolithic Ac. 10,890 – 8,780 BCEPreceded by the Epipaleolithic Natufian settlement. El KhiamJordan Valley, LevantKhiamianc. 10,200 – 8,800 BCE Iraq ed-DubbJordan Valley, LevantPre-Pottery Neolithicc. 10,000 – 7,950 BCE Spirit CavePang Mapha, Mae Hong Son, ThailandHoabinhianc. 9,800…
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Original Affluent Society, and Stone Age Economics By: Mashall Sahlins, UofM, 1970
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The “original affluent society” is principal that the lives of hunter-gatherers are seen as embedding a sufficient degree of material comfort and security that is more affluent than current times. The theory was first put forward in a paper presented by…
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How Modern Trades Echo Neolithic Communication: An Architecture for Survival. Pest Control, Fire, & Log-Cabin Building
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Three Simple Survival LanguagesWhat do a pest-control technician, a chimney cleaner, and a log-cabin builder have in common? At first, not much. One looks for mice, insects, nests, holes and damaged wood. Another looks up a chimney for soot,…
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Tools from the neolithic time period
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > facsimiles fire stone clubs chippers olduvai stone chopping tool birch bark box termites and termite fishers hand axe The first hand axes, (also known as bifaces), are usually called Acheulean / Acheulian. Named after the site of gravel quarries in the…
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How efficient were neolithic tools? Evaluating the Performance of Stone, Bone, Wood, & Fiber Technologies in Prehistoric Construction
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> A common assumption about prehistory is that Neolithic tools were crude, inefficient, and barely capable of performing useful work. Compared to modern chainsaws, excavators, steel hammers, and power drills, stone-age technology can appear primitive. However, archaeological discoveries and experimental…