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June 13, 2021 at 11:20 am
You have to grant that when you lay out what they must have done to get there..we're not talking about the smartest decisions a person could make. 
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
June 13, 2021 at 11:47 am
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I believe genetic evidence argues aborigines reached Australia in one single small group. This suggest some singular event triggered the crossing. It’s not just a bunch of knuckleheads keep sailing off over the horizon to never be heard from again, until one of them floated up on Australia still alive.
If it is a singular event that triggered the crossing, there was probably a good reason for for assuming sailing over the horizon was a reasonable response. For example, maybe a large volcanic eruption denuded, as far as they know, all of the land they lived on, so if they stayed, they would starve. So they might as well try their luck going over the horizon on boats.
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June 13, 2021 at 12:05 pm
(June 10, 2021 at 7:12 pm)Helios Wrote: The Ancient world had 20 sided dice. This can one thing. The ancient world had D&D. 
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I wonder did they also roll out the ones.
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June 13, 2021 at 12:43 pm
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June 13, 2021 at 3:45 pm
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(June 13, 2021 at 12:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Great Wall Fort Unearthed In China
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interesting, but not very old, at least not very old for any parts of the world that isn’t the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
In many parts of the world it is not hard to find people living in houses older than that fort.
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June 13, 2021 at 7:06 pm
(June 13, 2021 at 3:45 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (June 13, 2021 at 12:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Great Wall Fort Unearthed In China
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interesting, but not very old, at least not very old for any parts of the world that isn’t the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
In many parts of the world it is not hard to find people living in houses older than that fort.
Sorry, I wasn’t aware there was a time limit.
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June 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm
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(June 13, 2021 at 7:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 13, 2021 at 3:45 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: interesting, but not very old, at least not very old for any parts of the world that isn’t the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
In many parts of the world it is not hard to find people living in houses older than that fort.
Sorry, I wasn’t aware there was a time limit.
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(June 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (June 13, 2021 at 7:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sorry, I wasn’t aware there was a time limit.
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Like wine, archeological discoveries gets better with age.
that was a joke
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June 13, 2021 at 7:55 pm
(June 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (June 13, 2021 at 7:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sorry, I wasn’t aware there was a time limit.
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Like wine, archeological discoveries gets better with age.
(June 13, 2021 at 7:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Like wine, archeological discoveries gets better with age.
that was a joke
Thank you for clearing that up, because it certainly didn’t look like one.
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June 14, 2021 at 10:36 am
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Out of Africa was not the first time.
Some previous groups of homo sapien had apparently reached Europe 100,000 years before the ancestors of all modern homo sapiens living outside Africa first left Africa. But it appears early emigrants from Africa went extinct before their descendants could have met the ancestors of the modern Homo Sapiens in Europe or Asia.
https://www.livescience.com/65906-oldest...2prQTFoQko.
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June 14, 2021 at 10:39 am
(June 14, 2021 at 10:36 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Out of Africa was not the first time.
Some previous groups of homo sapien had apparently reached Europe 100,000 years before the ancestors of all modern homo sapiens living outside Africa first left Africa. But it appears early emigrants from Africa went extinct before their descendants could have met ancestors of the modern Homo Sapiens in Europe or Asia.
https://www.livescience.com/65906-oldest...2prQTFoQko.
That’s paleoanthropology, not archaeology.
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