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> Looks like that 6 ft social distance might be up
> in the air:
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So who do you believe, the engineers or the virus experts?
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Looks like that 6 ft social distance might be up in the air:
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It's just a fact of life, T-Rex makes the news...clam chowder doesn't. I guess the movie Jurassic Park ruined science for a lot of people.
Just the same, your fossil is a neat find. I looked online to see what fossil dealers were selling similar conglomerates for and it seems they do sell for more than sunflower seeds!
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> Mystery of 2 million-year-old stone balls solved
> Here's how ancient cave dwellers used these stone
> balls.
Correction, here is how SOME cave dwellers used stone balls.
Schick and Toth (1993) refer to Spheroids as an:----especially enigmatic artifact form that prevails throughout much of the Stone Age in the Old World in a globular, battered piece of stone called a &qu
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"Washington crews have never seen tumbleweeds like this...
we haven’t had this before, but I guess we’ll just figure it out.”
It doesn't seem like much of a puzzle.
What they were not saying in that media article: In the last 20 years there were major fires in 2019, 2016, 2007, and 2000.
Since tumbleweeds propagate much faster than native sagebrush, especially after a fire, thi
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From the abstract:
" Morphological analysis of a tooth and mitochondrial DNA from several hominin bone fragments, identified through proteomic screening, assign these finds to H. sapiens and link the expansion of Initial Upper Palaeolithic technologies with the spread of H. sapiens into the mid-latitudes of Eurasia before 45 thousand years ago3. The excavations yielded a wealth of bone ar
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"The results of these tests may find a connection with a well-known historical figure. They might tell you whether you are descended from groups such as Vikings or Zulus, where your ancient relatives came from or when they migrated," they wrote. "For the most part these tests cannot tell you the things they claim to – they are little more than genetic astrology."
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Hermione Wrote:
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Thank you for bringing up Roald Fryxell again
What a success story this man was.
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donald r raab Wrote:
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> THAT is a LONG time for
> the dog ate your homework excuse. Just what is
> the problem?
A couple of timeline examples:
As one can see it took 20 years before Whittaker and McCall replied to O'Brien's paper and as of 2006 the controversy was still going on in the peer-reviewed j
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....and incorporates covid-19 social distancing at the same time.
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From the BBC article:
"Given the ongoing revelations of Neanderthal art and technology, it is difficult to see how we can regard Neanderthals as anything other than the cognitive equals of modern humans," the study said."
In the case of the study, the string is a short one. They did convince me, however, that Neanderthals were the cognitive equals of some archaeologists. Ther
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"A team at the University of Bristol has developed a new method of dating pottery which is allowing archaeologists to date prehistoric finds from across the world with remarkable accuracy."
and
"Accurate radiocarbon dating of pottery vessels can reveal: (1) the period of use of pottery; (2) the antiquity of organic residues, including when specific foodstuffs were exploi
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Another free paper on Paleofires (2009):
Abstract (in part)
"We also test the hypothesis that a comet impact initiated continental-scale wildfires at 12.9 ka; the data do not support this idea, nor are continent-wide fires indicated at any time during deglaciation. There are, however, clear links between large climate changes and fire activity. Biomass burning gradually increased from t
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Ballard's 2015 PhD thesis:
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Concerns over secret search for giants' bones (New
> Zealand)
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Giants are having a bad time trying to establish themselves just about everywhere:
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Results were sobering. In 1982, the park had 266 glaciers; in 2009 there were 184. Comparison photographs clearly show glaciers in retreat. By comparing aerial photos from the late 1970s to 2009, researchers detected a 34% loss of glacier surface area in only 30 years.
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Here are some suggestions:
"More beasts, less burden: Large animals could help keep permafrost frozen.
Strangely enough, one way to slow the thawing of permafrost is to reintroduce massive herds of large, plant eating animals to the Arctic landscape to mimic the days when millions of mammoths roamed the Siberian steppes. Although the idea may sound like science fiction, it is based in so
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Photo of a broken point-base from Avon:
Cultural possibilities for the Avon point base:
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SAA review from September 2019 that mentions the YD issue:
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Don't bet on it:
Part 2:
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I see
I see with 20/20 vision.
> so if DNA supports you it's golden if it
> burns your little house of cards to the ground
> then it's garbage.
I see you were forced to switch wording away from CRI's (and other companies selling garbage ) giant screw up "Identical twins got 5
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"However, based on the absence of crucial virulence genes, unlike the later Y. pestis strains that were responsible for the first to third pandemics, these ancient ancestral Y. pestis strains likely did not have the ability to cause bubonic plague, only pneumonic and septicemic plague. These early plagues may have been responsible for the suggested population declines in the late 4th mille
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Go into 4:10...this guy is on a Head Start program.
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Identical twins got 5 different results from 5 different companies?
The only coffin is believing CRI.
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Well, we're covering the same ground over and
> over,
"This thesis examines the
scientific evidence for the archaeological claims of The Cerutti Mastodon Site, the set of
conditions that allowed for the possible misinterpretation of the site as being necessarily
archaeological in nature
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