#Neolithic People

[mundanehaiku]

"The Neolithic People"

They lived in a time of change and challenge When the ice retreated and the earth warmed When the wild beasts roamed and the plants grew When the rivers flowed and the seas rose

They learned to adapt and survive To hunt and gather and farm and store To make tools and weapons and pottery and cloth To build houses and monuments and tombs and shrines

They created a culture and a legacy To express their beliefs and values and art To communicate their stories and songs and myths To connect with their ancestors and gods and spirits

They used large boulders to polish their tools To sharpen their edges and smooth their surfaces To enhance their quality and efficiency and beauty To show their skill and knowledge and creativity

They found these boulders in nature or moved them by hand They placed them in fields or gardens or sacred lands They left them as marks of their presence and work We call them polissoirs, the polishing boulders

They were the Neolithic people The ingenious and resourceful people The first farmers, builders, potters, and weavers The pioneers of civilization.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 14: Ancient History VI and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I am particularly in need of more specific non-European suggestions in particular, but all suggestions are welcome.

[thesilicontribesman]

Human Neolithic Male Skull, Cliffe Castle, Keighley, Yorkshire

[rainydayzo]

The end is coming soon and man am I gonna miss drawing these idiots <3

Ofc I’ll prolly still doodle them

[rainbowwings14-phi]

[tyrannoninja]

Over eight thousand years ago in northeastern Africa, this Neolithic Egyptian couple is gazing upon the fertile floodplains of the Nile River Valley from the high plains beyond. Back in those days, the Sahara of North Africa would have been a grassy savanna teeming with wildlife and nomadic peoples instead of the barren desert we know today. Once the land began to dry up between 4000 and 3000 BC, some of the people who had roamed it would have fled to the Nile and begun cultivating its banks, leading to the Egyptian and Kushite civilizations of historic times.

[gaykarstaagforever]

We always assume ancient people were hard-up for food all the time.

And yes, it took them longer than it takes us to get snacks, especially with preparation and gathering. And they were highly susceptible to weather conditions and fires and vegetable blights.

But like...they probably wouldn't have decided to raise families where they did if those places were nutrient-poor.

I'm not saying they had a lot of fat people. But they certainly had SOME. Because don't try to tell me they didn't have ready snacks at hand. We love snacks. Especially when we're drunking. And evidence indicates beer was invented like the day after bread.

They died at 45 because they had no sophisticated way to deal with cavities and breech births and rocks falling on your knee and viruses they didn't understand. Not because they didn't have roasted nuts and dried fish and congealed pork fat mixed with blueberries when they wanted it.

We think "society" has made us lazy over-eaters. Sure, it provides ample opportunity to do that. But the point is, we WANT to do that. That's a basic drive, that seemingly all animals have. That's just doing little and stuffing your face. We do it, dogs do it, birds do it, T-Rexes did it.

Who doesn't want to sit around and eat all day? And no doubt any group of humans, or animals, is going to have members that accel at figuring out how to do that. And if populations are low and the biosphere is abundant, it can happen.

I just hate this idea that people 30,000 years ago were supposedly too stupid to figure out how to gather mounds of food and stuff their faces with it. If rats and monkeys can, and do!, do it, we did too.

Plus

More like PLUS SIZE, am I right??

...Ass up to her armpits. Hell yeah, girl.

[subjectivemortality]

Sometimes when I need a good cathartic cry I think about how many pieces of art have been lost to time, and how beautiful it is that they existed and made someone happy and how important it is that they existed even if they were never meant to survive forever

[mantisgodsart]

A small collection of drawings made for the sake of voter fraud! As the competition winds down, we will remind you that you can still request one of these - in exchange for a Kina vote here, of course.

Featuring: Darth from DarthTheMonster on Discord, Radiance holding a baby Mothiva from @amorosebeing, Spinbri and Stagbri from @vib-ribbon-oc-central having a cute+gay moment, a Shiny Wurmple for @pkmntrainerandre, a Fuff for @jayjar100, and Neolith and Zasp having a meal together for @waspseekinghoney.

[propalitetz]

caveman neighborhood

[vvoidled]

revvert to monke except in my case its revvert to fish

[xn--ko8h]

the cucuteni-trypillia culture were the only people who really had it figured out

no social stratification or division of labor

spend all day doing farm shit or making sculptures of hot women

every 70 years burn your entire city to the ground and rebuild it all from scratch

[bijoumikhawal]

Potentially hitting a hornets nest by saying "we shouldn't use genetics, especially not poor understandings of genetics, to understand the political and cultural realities of minorities in the MENA" on Twitter, where people love to do that

[hieronymus-botch]

Science hot take: Dogs are not a single species and the concept of species shouldn’t even apply to them. The definition of a species is a group of organisms that can all reproduce with each other across multiple generations. Therefore, it is a basic law of nature that individuals of a species of sexually reproductive animals cannot vary so greatly in size that the largest males cannot safely breed with the smallest females. My dad is close to the upper bound for how tall humans can be, barring genetic disorders, and my mom is close to the lower bound, and I’m alive right now and didn’t kill my mom in the womb due to being too big of a fetus for her to support. The same would be true if I were any species of wild animal on earth. However, we have selectively bred dogs so hard over the course of thousands of years that we’ve bypassed this limit completely. If you try to breed a female Chihuahua and a male English Mastiff, it will be at best impossible and at worst lethal. Therefore, dogs are not one species. HOWEVER, they also cannot be categorized as a discrete number of different species, because different dog breeds fall onto a complete spectrum of sizes, and can all crossbreed with breeds that are a certain degree smaller or larger than them. This creates a situation where dog A and dog B can have a litter of healthy puppies together, and so can dog B and dog C, and dog C and dog D, but it’s completely impossible for dog A and dog D, similar to a dialect continuum in linguistics. This breaks the entire classification system of species, and means that dogs are neither one species, nor a discrete number of multiple species, but a new thing I am provisionally calling a species spectrum.

[suzilight]

Aug 2024 New analysis found that the largest “bluestone”, the altar stone, at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).

The astonishing finding that the megalith, which is known as the “altar stone”, was transported by prehistoric people from at least as far as present day Inverness, and potentially from the Orkney islands, “doesn’t just alter what we think about Stonehenge, it alters what we think about the whole of the late Neolithic”, said Rob Ixer, an honorary senior research fellow at University College London (UCL) and one of the experts behind the study, which was published in Nature on Wednesday.

“It completely rewrites the relationships between the Neolithic populations of the whole of the British Isles,” he told the Guardian. “The science is beautiful and it’s remarkable, and it’s going to be discussed for decades to come … It is jaw-dropping.”

Perseid Meteors, Milky Way, and Stonehenge

[stackofsnakes]

"It certainly is an ingenius little device, far beyond the skill of our current craftsmen, but its only function is to accelerate a tiny metal object to high speeds via controlled explosion. Clever but somewhat crude, don't you think?"

Me, suddenly less confident about the gun i was showing to my interdimensional wizard friend: "B-but c-can y-your wa-"

Wizard: Sighs, picks up a stone from the ground and launches it at mach 3 at a nearby tree