What if all the men went home and left only one woman to move the stones? What ifs are great for books and stories, lard remains positive evidence.
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> Unfortunately, this link shows up only as a link
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The link was posted to the OP without a title because none was needed (IMO) as 'overland'
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
El-bey seems to be misinformed.
"The location of sites in relation to dried-up Pliocene lakes is evidence of humans in America over three million years ago. "
Page 20"
"we've always been here"---Armand Minthorn
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
"That land would have been owned and lived on by generations of Aboriginal people."
Could "that land" and the two newly discovered underwater sites been "owned" by the male camps and not "Aboriginal people" in general (which would include women as owners also)?
Probably not. The hair at Juukan 2 was dated to around 4000 ka was shown to be linked to
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Ancient History
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> Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents
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> region’s 1st modern humans shows they arrived from
> hot cradle of
> Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt
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A jawbone is not a brain and Mount Carmel is not Australia.
Prof. Israel Hershkovitz would have us
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Laboratory
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From the article:
"Late last year, an archaeological discovery of two women thought to be nomadic Scythians from around 2,500 years ago (4th century BCE) was revealed. They were buried in what's now the western Ru
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> I'm even more saddened by the fact that the men's
> camp laws gave those in the woman's camps no vote.
> That was a disastrous loss
> of connection also IMO.
"That's her father's country. We named that gorge after her father, my grandfather."
More proof. See what I mean? Her "father's country"... the dreamtime country of d
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
There is a much safer way to map caves than using people:
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Lee Olsen
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Laboratory
"One of the country’s oldest Aboriginal heritage sites destroyed."
From article:
“Our people are deeply troubled and saddened by the destruction of these rock shelters and are grieving the loss of connection
to our ancestors as well as our land,” Mr Ashburton said in a statement."
Free online:
"The rock shelter was constructed by tunneling into a naturally e
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
About Section 18 again.
"Iron ore boss reportedly told a staff meeting that the company was apologising for the distress caused, not the destruction"
A bigger question is why The Guardian (along with ABC and other copycat media) refuse to "tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth"?
When are the cultural heritage advocates of dreamtime law passed down from the me
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
Free peer-reviewed paper:
Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka
Wedage O, Picin A, Blinkhorn J, Douka K, Deraniyagala S, Kourampas N, et al. (2019) Microliths in the South
Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE 14(10):
e0222606.
and
"Researchers have unveiled new evide
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
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> If the article is to be believed,....
Reynen (2018) Page 147:
"A hole in the roof of the western side of this chamber [...] deposits disturbed."
A hole in the roof before the blast and disturbed deposits? Not exactly UNESCO nomination material
or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel equivalent los
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
The reason I bring this up is because it ties directly into what has been found
(and curated thanks to Rio Tinto) at Juukan-2.
(free online)
An Alyawara Day: Flour, Spinifex Gum, and Shifting Perspectives
Lewis R. Binford
Journal of Anthropological Research
Vol. 40, No. 1, Fortieth Anniversary Issue 1944-1984 (Spring, 1984), pp. 157-182
Page 180:
"Perhaps the most bizarre exampl
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
> So that's what needs to happen.
What needs to happen, did happen, and needs to continue to happen (only more of it):
"Over 100 Indigenous Tertiary scholarships have been awarded since 2013..."
Any potential Marie Curie's in there? Now, how much is the hole in the roof at the Juukan-2 rockshelter worth again?
Not this much IMO:
Thank you Rio Tinto.
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Ancient History
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Page 122: "The aboriginal wife has no rights [...] and after she is married she is a drudge and a slave."
Proof:
1. Women's camps
2. Dogs allowed in men's camps, women not. Women treated as less than dogs.
3. Polygamy
4. Age of death ca. 20 years less than men o
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
Please scroll down to ' World War II: 1939–45'
Then to the photo of the soldiers with steel nails in their boots, steel canteens, steel-action rifles, along with steel clips, barrels, and steel bayonets. Next, see this name: Kath Walker. Clinton Walker, that's got to be a giant coincidence, right? Pass the steel DNA machinery please.
I owe these Indigenous steel-user heroes
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
> It must be possible to obtain electricity by some
> means other than wrecking culturally important
> sites.
But first you have to live long enough in order to develop those means.
Those dams provide far more for humanity as a whole than just electricity.
1. Dams are a hedge against drought. When populations are at the hunter gatherer level, then yes, a natural water hole outbac
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
> And we can't let
> this happen again."
Page 181:
5. "Many of the Alyawara are polygynous with some men having as many as three wives."
Lewis R. Binford, "An Alyawara Day: Flour, Spinifex Gum, and Shifting Perspectives"
Journal of Anthropological Research 40, no. 1 (Spring, 1984): 157-182.
Going back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s:
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
"WA Government rules out further protections for Aboriginal heritage sites at risk of demolition
WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt is currently reviewing the Aboriginal Heritage Act, including the controversial Section 18, which legalises the destruction of Aboriginal sites.
But he has rejected calls for a moratorium on any further work already granted under the act."
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Ancient History
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> "Not an isolated incident
> The history of large developments destroying
> Indigenous heritage sites is, tragically, long."
More:
Full thesis by Wendy Reynen
Juukan 2, the entire Junkan Complex, and the Pilbara is heavily covered in this thesis and the author was there in 2015. From pa
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
"Not an isolated incident
The history of large developments destroying Indigenous heritage sites is, tragically, long."
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
A Critique of Graham Hancock's Forced Numerical Relationship between the Great Pyramid of Giza and Earth's Dimensions
Thomas Schroeder
Graham Hancock’s assertion that the Great Pyramid’s dimensions reveal knowledge of the earth’s dimensions fails to hold up to any scrutiny as a practical theory.
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient Egypt
Additional links (and better I hope) to the Archaeology reference above:
May 11, 2020 : "New research determines our species created earliest modern artifacts in Europe"
The paper:
Hublin, J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020).
Nothing at Bacho Kiro Cave that refutes this concl
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
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Lee Olsen
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Ancient History
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"Nassau residents are clogging sewage treatment plants wi
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"Study: Stray Dogs Potentially Brought Coronavirus To Humans"
Link to the paper:
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> The virus may not have spontaneously originated in
> the Wuhan wet market. See this 55 minute
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