Happy birthday, Robert #Redford, #BOTD in 1936. 🙏🎬🍾🎂🎉🇺🇸

#movies #TheGreatGatsby #OutOfAfrica #OurSoulsAtNight #AllThePresidentsMen #TheHorseWhisperer

#ancient #humans #stopover #outofAfrica

https://theconversation.com/ancient-humans-may-have-paused-in-arabia-for-30-000-years-on-their-way-out-of-africa-206200?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2025%202023%20-%202636326540&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2025%202023%20-%202636326540+CID_9764be5d33a45cf7708c476a0516eb3f&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Ancient%20humans%20may%20have%20paused%20in%20Arabia%20for%2030000%20years%20on%20their%20way%20out%20of%20Africa

Just a tiny prehensile-tailed #porcupine called #Wilbur eating a slice of #banana 😂🍌🙌
He lived in the #OutOfAfricaWildlifePark in #Arizona and he was very loved for his kind and gentle nature and for his love of snacks. At 12 years old, he passed peacefully and will be missed dearly and he will never be forgotten.
📷-Sarah Fredrickson
#OutofAfrica #Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Pet #Pets #PetsAreFamily #AdoptDontShop

Ha!
The 300ky old mandible found in Jebel Irhoud in Morocco wasn't from an "anatomically modern human" as the two 2017 papers claimed. Its skull was elongated, not globular. So it was but a "natural variability" as I guessed. And it also explains the weird population gap.
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/when-and-where-did-our-species-originate/

"New fossil discoveries suggest that modern human physical traits did not emerge as one suite but were gradual. A skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco dated to about 300,000 years old, controversially assigned to Homo sapiens, had a modern-looking face but an elongated, archaic-looking braincase. This suggests our globular braincase evolved later and not as part of a fully modern suite of features."

Note to self: lotsa citations on scholar-google for a paper don't necessarily hint to its broadly accepted content but might just as well mean it is strongly contested. So for me as interested layperson its nigh impossible to know when to stop searching..
#Tegtmeier #Pleistocene #OutOfAfrica #archeology

Modern humans have been around for 300ky and started in Southern Africa. Only as recently as 65ky ago did they come (again) to East Africa, where they genetically mingled with and now, most importantly, educated the human groups there, and then went on to populate the world in earnest in this latest instalment of the many #OutOfAfrica #migration.

That the skilled, knowledgable humans did arrive in East Africa around 65ky ago required a #climate-window of opportunity: at that time, the Estern half of the continent experienced an evenly lush, moist interlude that created a fertile bridge from South Africa to East Africa (Eureka from 2019: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/793260 )

#Tegtmeier #archeology #agriculture #Paleolithic #paleoclimate #Eemian #LGM

This is a first instalment of my #tegtmeier "research": What you don't know yourself you gotta find an explanation for. (Introduction to my use of the hashtag here https://mst.mineown.de/@anlomedad/109686422874580424)

I got this spark from a conver by @poostain and @breadandcircuses about
- the alleged "harmony with nature" that
- allegedly got lost when humans invented #agriculture
– and why did agriculture, classified as something of major sin in the conver, evolve "so late" if it was
- inevitable due to "human nature"
- and despite of humans having been around for "so long" before, without inventing this "human-nature-skill"? https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109746656416531173

Here, I'll explain to myself in #Tegtmeier's fashion how hunter-gatherers #HunterGatherers at LEAST from the Upper #Paleolithic
- communicated #calendar knowledge for hunting to stay in control of their caloric intake,
- and might as well have applied agricultural practices, and for both,
- they must have lived at least semi-settled in caves.
- Then I put the lifestyle of the first modern humans in #SouthAfrica 300ky ago and their much, much later #OutOfAfrica migration around 65ky into a #climate perspective, including musings about #CH4 and #sealevel, the latter might have destroyed potential ccoastal #archeology sites. Teaser: I'll also use (and explain a little more) this pretty chart of 350ky of climate factors and #proxies for the climate perspective.
- And as an afterthought, I'll also look at what is known or hypothesised about deliberately wielding #fire. Wielding fire, I'd say, is the first definitive step outside "living in harmony with nature".

Ziek op de bank. Deze staat al zo lang op mijn watchlist, toch maar eens kijken!
#outofafrica

Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our Understanding of African Migration
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-85000-year-old-finger-bone-could-complicate-our-understanding-african-migration-180968720/?no-ist #Archaeology #SaudiArabia #HomoSapiens #Africa #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic #Paleoclimate