“Provides an amazing snapshot of the future”

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The fabled rainbow road

After the Ice by Steven Mithin is a great book for exactly this kind of information.

He tells you about archeological research around the world for the period 20,000 to 5,000 bce, but he also then tells you a story about a time traveller watching the people in the settlements or areas live their lives, as revealed by the archeological evidence.

It’s a really great way to think your way into the landscape they lived in and exploited. And it spans the globe.

Too bad we can’t find any mega highways

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Thank you. We will have to wait for contact with the aliens so we can watch their documentaries about them. I am looking forward to the day

There's also this https://www.routledge.com/The-Mesolithic-in-Britain-Landscape-and-Society-in-Times-of-Change/Conneller/p/book/9781138790438?utm_source=cjaffiliates&utm_medium=affiliates&cjevent=e20d44bb4be511ed81b2e51f0a82b838

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/oldest_house_01.shtml that's one of the structures I was referring to. They've found a few others which is a miracle considering the transitory period.

I tend to stick to the papers and journals, but there are plenty of popular history books that cover this period. Just never in the detail some of us would like. There's simply not enough information to really write a large book specifically on the mesolithic In Britain. There most certainly is alot of research on it, but not the type that lends itself to the usual popular history books which tend to be narrative driven.

Oh that's interesting about the red deer skulls, I will look into that with great enthusiasm. I read the book Sapiens which was really thought provoking. Would love to read more about this kind of stuff if you or any others have reccs

Thank you, added to my list!

Pretty amazing time to be alive. We're going to learn so much in the next couple of years about the past. Because the world is dying, we will all see the past before the end.

These MCU spin-offs are getting ridiculous. Let me guess the story - a regular highway gets stepped on his whole life until one day someone shows it a new path and it gains these newfound powers for extra speed and strength?? I’ve seen this a million times Disney. shakes fist

> Using pollen in sediment layers, the scientists dated the footprints to between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago. This age means the footprints may have been left by Homo antecessor, an early human species known to be present in Europe at that time.

Definitions for this are a moving target. They’re sometimes called “archaic humans”, and some include them as part of Homo sapiens. They use trinomials to make a distinction between subspecies like antecessor and neanderthalensis, making us Homo sapiens sapiens.

Another common way to classify them would be Hominin, which includes all of those archaic species, our immediate ancestors, and us. It used to be Hominid, which now is more broad and includes chimps, gorillas, orangutans, etc.

I suspect it's just pareidolia. Notice the same "human and animal footprints" are seen in the clouds above the mud.

They had seasonal hunting and gathering lands. They'd move to where they could find the most abundant resources at the time. Most of the time it seems to be adjacent to wetlands. Wetland always have an abundance of animals, even in winter. Archeologists have found dwellings that were semi permanent. Meaning, they weren't inhabitanted year around but were built to be used as camps when they were in the area. The mesolithic is a fascinating Era. Especially when we get a glimpse into their believes like all the red deer skulls at Starr carr

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You are correct, sorry about that! The 900,000 year old track's article uses the word Human also a few times, but then clarifies and says Homo Antecessor; which is in fact an ancestor to Humans, but are not Homo Sapiens themselves.

The linked article incorrectly says 900,000 year old human tracks were found "Nearby".

Hmm, I'm pretty sure humans were around 8,500 years ago. I'm a bit rusty with my anthropology, but I think humans have been around < 1,000,000 but more realistic estimates are around 200,000 years.

I think the article said this is from about 8,500 years ago.

Humans have only been around for roughly a third of that time

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