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War_Hymn t1_jcp6vk7 wrote

Reply to comment by huramazda in Roman tomb reveals burnt remains left in place, covered by bricks, sealed with lime, encircled by bent and broken nails — rites to restrain the dead from rising by marketrent

I mean, stuff like this lives on in the modern age. My wife's side of the family believes in this sort of voodoo. After one of her uncles got violently robbed, her aunt sacrificed a chicken on the altar to "ward off evil spirits following him". On the more extreme side, my wife's grandfather died young in his 20s because of a construction accident. Her grandmother got ostracized by her in-laws and the entire village because they thought the death was a bad omen and she was cursed.

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SDeCasien t1_jcp5rth wrote

Reply to Grad Student Explores Ancient Warfare With Naval Ram Project by kratos2025

Hey! I’m Stephen (the guy who built the ram).

I guess to the first question! Yes, the ram is accurate to those found across the Mediterranean. More than 31 naval rams exist in the archaeological record, many of which are three-bladed waterline rams. The first archaeologically attested three-bladed waterline ram was discovered off the coast of Athlit, Israel in the 1980s. The bronze ram and its intact bow timbers revealed that the ram served as an integral part of warship construction and a complex naval weapons system. It also suggested that rams were cast in bronze to the highest standards using the direct lost-wax casting method.

Many rams have been discovered on the seafloor since the recovery of the Athlit ram. Each subsequent discovery has helped scholars gain deeper insight into naval warfare from the Classical to the early Roman Imperial periods. Of the 31 rams in the archaeological record, 26 were recovered at the Egadi Islands near western Sicily. All these rams were used as examples to make my ram!

If anyone has any other questions just let me know! ⚔️🌊

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that_other_goat t1_jcp1719 wrote

Reply to comment by huramazda in How many early human species existed on Earth by Capital-Monk-6503

In the future read the entire comment before attempting to correct someone as it was covered.

Notice I said: This means aside from us there are 7 that were "early human species". Notice I used works like " known".

Now why did I include other hominids? simple to cover the debate on when and where the term human should be applied.

Why did I bother? It is not as cut and dry as you are asserting my dude.

Ask yourself what defines a human? Ask yourself how can we infer such things from something as simple as a tooth? Ask yourself what kind of argument is being presented.

Knowledge is cumulative and new things are discovered and old mistakes are rectified constantly. I try to always acknowledge the holes or faults in the information and any fact based debate on the topic.

What faults? most of this is an argument from definition of what makes a human human.

Lets take the control of fire as an example as it was once thought to be the defining characteristic of our kind. In 2009 we observed a near human understanding of fire in wild Chimpanzees in Senegal.

Additionally recent discoveries may have pushed back the use of fire in cooking back before homo erectus. This either means that we've got the characteristics wrong or it's more complex than we assumed.

Another key idea which used to be tool use but we've observed other animals using tools, again those pesky chimps. There have been stone tools discovered which may be connected to Australopithecus. Which given your ridged idea shouldn't be the case if tool use is a defining factor.

See my friend it's never as absolute as we think. Arguments by definition are always falter when new information is discovered as they assume we know all. Notice I've been saying "may have" this was done purposely as well because again we don't know as much as we think.

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