#prehistoric people

[charlesoberonn]

[evilhorse]

The different languages make introductions very brief…

(Dell Four Color #656)

[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

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[superrainbow06]

Ok hear me out. ISAT au where everything is the same but the change god is Hatsune Miku. The only thing thats distinct between all iterations is the hair style and color.

This may be inspired by my feed absolutely filled to the brim with miku drawings of every ethnicity and as literally anything.

[fawnrats]

😭😭😭 I love!!!

I’ve heard some people say that we didn’t start treating dogs as companions more than tools until recently, but thats just not true.. too simple.. I think throughout history there have always been people treating dogs as companions and others treating them as tools. not every single person treating them as tools until one day we started treating them as companions! it must be more complex than that

Paleolithic humans

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[eyrri]

my and my gf @bonegnaws spent the week illustrating and printing our first zines for a local zine fest (hers is a per-zine about werewolves!) We were not tabling, but just wanted to hand them out for free or trade and also to print just for ourselves for fun. We hope to make more zines in the future to have available on a digital storefront.

[thesilicontribesman]

Human Neolithic Male Skull, Cliffe Castle, Keighley, Yorkshire

[reginaldubel]

queen 💅

[uhhhhmanda]

I know the work of the Kennis brothers when I see it! These guys make recreations of humanoid ancestors (and ancient humans) that have SO. MUCH. LIFE. They have personality. They have soul. They are so clearly PEOPLE.

A few other sculptures of theirs that I love:

Left top: Neolithic woman Lisar. Right top: Homo erectus pithecanthropus. Left bottom: Homo sapiens Peștera cu Oase. Right bottom: Lucy.

every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”

she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby

[ancestorsalive]

In 1965, excavations in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, which are about 15,000 years old, are some of the oldest shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man.

[anghraine]

Just thinking about Gondor, as usual, and how wild it is that the (supposedly minority!) population of Gondorians who speak Sindarin and/or know Quenya at the end of the Third Age is likely higher than the combined number of all Elves still remaining in Middle-earth who can speak either.

Tolkien's specific statement is that more Men speak Sindarin or know Quenya than Elves do either, but while this group of Men would encompass people like the Northern Dúnedain, Théoden, etc, the letter directly links this to Gondorian usage of Sindarin and Quenya. That does make sense given the extreme population disparities involved; the vast majority of the Men in question would pretty much have to come from Gondor. Certainly, the only place where we actually see widespread, casual, local Sindarin usage among Men is Minas Tirith (though we know the linguistic patterns of MT are also characteristic of Dol Amroth and likely throughout much of Belfalas).

In addition, Tolkien tried to make sense of the limited evolution of Gondorian Sindarin by saying it's an acquired polite language among Númenórean aristocratic elites and scholars. In the actual process of writing LOTR there were various explanations (in one draft Faramir explains that Westron is a Gondorian conlang invented for dealings with other peoples, for instance). But Tolkien's standard justification for Gondorian Sindarin being so recognizable soon settled on an idea that Gondorian Sindarin is a language of the elites taught to them in childhood and used as a courtesy or mark of high status rather than evolving naturally.

I've always found this explanation a bit odd given that in the main narrative of LOTR, the Gondorian groups we see using Sindarin in full sentences/conversations rather than for specific names like Mithrandir or isolated words are mainly Gondorian soldiers outside of leadership roles. Faramir's men in Ithilien switch to "another language of their own" that turns out to be Sindarin. In the streets of Minas Tirith, "many" random soldiers call out to each other in Sindarin to gossip about Pippin. The almost entirely Gondorian armies following Aragorn praise the hobbits in Sindarin and Quenya.

But if we take Tolkien's statement at face value, the implication is that Númenórean elites in Gondor (i.e. a small fraction of the overall Gondorian population) outnumber the combined populations of all Sindarin- or Quenya-speaking Elves remaining in Middle-earth.

Many Elves have left or died, yes, but we're still talking about the Elves of Rivendell and of Lothlórien and all the ones scattered throughout Lindon, combined. If they really are outnumbered by Gondor's ruling aristocracy alone, I think the usual estimates of Gondor's overall population must be far too low. Tolkien simply noted that the population of Minas Tirith and its fiefs (presumably referring to Lossarnach, Anórien etc), while declined from the past, must have still been "much greater" than the combined Elvish populations of Rivendell, Lothlórien, and Lindon. That's not even getting into the more outlying fiefs of Gondor like densely-populated Belfalas.

(Alternatively, you could fanwank that Sindarin/Quenya are more widely spoken in Gondor than this and thus the population disparities, while certainly present, are not quite so extreme as this suggests. But that interpretation does require ignoring explicit statements from Tolkien in a way that something like theorizing population based on vague canonical suggestions is typically going to avoid doing.)

[liefdesleven]

if the professor doesnt acknowledge ethnocentrism in this class......i will be the annoying cunt who does

[yasmeensh]

Paleolithic Media Catalogue

Hello everyone :) Short story first: When I began brainstorming for my prehistoric story, I started wondering what other prehistoric fiction there is out there. I was not familiar with it and have not seen much. That's when I started my grand literature review and began a search for what fiction exist out there. I wanted to know what kinds of stories are being made with this time period. What are the common themes or recurring ideas (I found lots of humans and dinosaurs works. And time travel). Since I've had a growing collection on my computer, I decided I should keep on enlarging it and put it online. It's nowhere near complete. I'll slowly keep accumulating the collection as I find more. I only have fiction books and comics right now. I still need to work on the film section.

You can access the blog here!

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As for where I am in my reading, the one's I've finished reading are Earth's Children series (book 1-4. Dropped it afterwards lol. I made a post on with fanart) Dance of the Tiger and it's sequel Singletusk (They were good! I'll upload my review on the blog), and Sisters of the Wolf (It was ok!). I got my hands on The Inheritors and excited to start reading it. I REALLY want to read the Shiva trilogy, but I found no PDF online... and it's out of print :( There is certainly old copies on ebay. And I want to read Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. There seem to be lots of good books out there.

[canisalbus]

I went to take a nap and I had a dream about some sort of Paleolithic universe where Vasco was a hunter and Machete was some sort of spiritual guide or chaman? They had this ceremony, Machete absolutely tripped balls after drinking some sort of decoction...... I'm not sure of what he saw but he looked really scared. Or maybe that was just his usual face

In the dream they looked like how you draw them, but I imagine that if this was an actual AU, their features would be far less pronounced and they'd be a bit more wolf-like? Since they'd still have the need for summer and winter coats, very big ears would freeze, super floppy ears could prove to be cumbersome by getting in the way and being prone to getting snagged by the environment, other animals or even their own species (I'm a biology nerd)

I don't remember much of their outfits except for Machete having red ochre accents, and having the sole of his foot painted with it for some reason? Earliest Louboutins. Slay.

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[charlotte-of-wales]

the way some grown ass adults are talking about savannah online right now is driving me insane, she's still very much a kid who probably still doesn't understand the serious position her family is in and as every kid in the planet of course she is going to mess up sometimes ESPECIALLY if she's being exploited by weirdos online who told her god-knows-what and are of god-knows-what-age

'she should have known better, louise never did anything like that' meanwhile your own kid is waiting for you to make them lunch jessica fuck off