Podcasts about Beringia

Guest Jennifer Raff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas.  She works with Indigenous communities and tribes across North America who wish to use DNA as a tool for investigating questions of recent and more distant histories. Her first book, “Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas,” is a New York Times bestseller and has won multiple awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa book award in science. In 2024 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (General Nonfiction) to support work on her second book. Why This Episode Matters Professor Raff discusses how genetic evidence has changed our understanding of the peopling of the Americas. Rather than a simple crossing of the Bering Land Bridge 13,000 years ago, DNA research suggests a more complex story involving population isolation during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000-20,000 years ago), followed by multiple migration waves. Recent discoveries, like footprints at White Sands dating to 25,000+ years ago, continue to challenge existing theories. Three Important Takeaways Genetic evidence shows the ancestors of indigenous Americans descended from an isolated East Asian population that experienced gene flow with ancient North Siberians around 25,000 years ago. Beringia wasn't just a narrow "land bridge" but a lost continent twice the size of Texas, with its southern coast relatively habitable during the Last Glacial Maximum. Research in this field requires a multidisciplinary approach that respectfully incorporates indigenous knowledge and perspectives alongside scientific methods. Referenced Origin: A Generic History of the Americas https://anthropology.ku.edu/people/jennifer-raff

It is truly an honor to have author Fritz Zimmernam with us tonight, he writes and speaks to topics that really resonate with me and my spirit. Independent researcher, author and antiquities preservationist Fritz Zimmerman, B.A. presents 10 years of research in his two-volume work, The Nephilim Chronicles.  It is the most complete reporting of ALL of the giant skeletons unearthed throughout the ages from across the globe.   The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley (Volume I) trails the origins of the “Bedrock Race”, debunking Beringia, providing undeniable evidence and outlining – completely – the Nephilim's migration across the globe, as chronicled by mounds and earthworks they built and symbolism they used.  Those seeking factual, historical data on information such as:   who really built Stonehenge, and many other earthworks throughout the world most complete list of giant skeletons and artifacts – none have chronicled this many origins of New Age beliefs – how pre-Native American Indians really worshiped origins of numerology, and how it was used to align mounds and earthworks perfectly towards the rising and setting suns The Nephilim why the Beringia land bridge theory is a myth origins of Earth Mother worship, and common symbolism still used today origins of Sky/Sun Father worship and symbolism used today the Amorites of the Bible, and the Ainu …..and much more! (Graphic te Nephilim chronicles)  

Thanks to Anbo, Murilo, Clay, and Ezra for their suggestions this week! Let's learn about some bears! Further reading: Snack attack: Bears munch on ants and help plants grow Extinct vegetarian cave bear diet mystery unravelled Ancient brown bear genomes sheds light on Ice Age losses and survival The sloth bear has shaggy ears and floppy lips [photo from this site]: An absolute unit of a Kodiak bear in captivity [photo by S. Taheri - zoo, own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1118252]: A polar bear: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we're revisiting a popular topic, bears! We'll talk about some bears we've never covered before, with suggestions from Anbo, Clay, Ezra, and Murilo. We'll even discuss a small bear mystery which has mostly been solved by science. To start us off, Anbo wanted to learn about bears in general. We've had bear episodes before, but our last episode all about bears was way back in 2017, in episode 42. Some of our listeners weren't even born back then, which makes me feel super old. Bears live throughout much of the world today, but they evolved in North America around 38 million years ago. These ancestral bears were small, about the size of a raccoon, but they were successful. They spread into Asia via the land bridge Beringia, where they were even more successful than in North America, so successful that by around 30 million years ago, descendants of those earliest bear ancestors migrated from Asia back into North America. But it wasn't until the Pleistocene around 2 ½ million years ago that bears really came into their own. That's because bears are megafauna, and megafauna evolved mainly as an adaptation to increasingly cold climates. As the ice ages advanced, a lot of animals grew larger so they could stay warm more easily. Predators also had to grow larger as their prey became larger, since if you want to hunt an animal the size of a bison or woolly rhinoceros, you'd better be pretty big and strong yourself. Bears mostly weren't hunting animals that big, though. Modern studies suggest that overall, bears are omnivores, not fully carnivorous. Bears eat a lot of plant material even if you don't count the panda, which isn't very closely related to other bears. Even when a bear does eat other animals, they're not usually very big ones. Let's take Murilo's suggestion as an example, the sloth bear. The sloth bear lives in India and is increasingly vulnerable due to habitat loss and poaching. It's probably most closely related to the sun bear that we talked about in episode 234, which also lives in parts of South Asia. Both the sun bear and the sloth bear have long black hair and a white or yellowish V-shaped marking on the chest. The sloth bear's hair is especially long on its neck and shoulders, like a mane, and its ears even have long hair. The sloth bear stands around 3 feet high at the shoulder at most, or 91 cm, and a big male can be over 6 feet tall, or almost 2 meters, when he stands on his hind legs. This isn't gigantic for bears in general, but it's not small either. Scientists think the V-shaped marking on its chest warns tigers to leave the sloth bear alone, and tigers mostly do. If tigers think twice about attacking an animal, you know that animal has to be pretty tough. The sloth bear has massive claws on big paws. The claws can measure 4 inches long, or 10 cm, although they're not very sharp. The bear has an especially long muzzle but its teeth aren't very large. Like most bears, it's good at climbing trees and can run quite fast, and it swims well too. It even has webbed toes. With all this in mind, what do you think the sloth bear eats? I'll give you some more hints. It has loose, kind of flappy lips, especially the lower lip. It doesn't have any teeth in the front of its upper jaw. It mainly uses its huge claws to dig.

The boys drink and review Chocolate Cherry Stout by Firestone Walker Brewing, then discuss an alternative history book about the evolution of humans.  In this view of human evolution, a different group of humans – the Floyds – took over Beringia and then migrated into America. When Columbus came to the Americas, he didn't find Homo Sapiens. He found the Floyds.  The book starts by introducing us to this alternative modern life, where modern man and this other version of man are living side by side. We learn the history – from Beringia until the conflict with Columbus.  First contact took place in Florida, which is why they're called “Floros,” politely, or “Floyds,” derogatively.  The Floros are very compact and strong, and very useful in close-in fighting. They were captured en masse and taken to Europe to serve as infantry in everybody's armies.  They integrated into society to some extent, but remained second-class citizens.  Once warfare modernized, and close-in fighting was not prized to the same extent, the Floros lost some of their utility in the infantry. They still did manual labor, which they were very good at, but they didn't bring particularly good skills.  Modern man (homo sapiens) tried to integrate them into society.  One flaw in the book is an unrealistic expectation that there was no interbreeding – because the Floyds were not very attractive.  The Floridius Rights Movement advocates for the Floros and tries to help them, but the Floros don't want the help.  The book pokes fun at a couple modern themes.  Liberal woke activists who protest on some people's behalf, but those people don't really want it.  A simpler life is a worse life, and more material stuff makes a better life.  After the end of the book review, P&C discuss some of the issues raised by the book, such as why are we the only version of “man” left on the planet? Why did the Neanderthals and Denisovans die out?  P&C go into an extensive discussion of differences between Neanderthals and modern humans, and why we may have replaced them. 

The Revenge Crew joins up with the main man over at Critical Entertainment for his ancient quest across the ever changing lands of indie comics!Writer, publisher, and over all nice guy, Chris Reda breaks down his new line of comics and graphic novels that are gracing the shelves of shops across the North America. Based in the cinematic dreamland of L.A., California. Chris, along with with his partner in print Mason Mendoza, founded Critical Entertainment to bring their own unique stories to the printed page. Bucking the all too usual restrictions of traditional production ( for context, the usual floppy issue rolls in conservatively at a monthly 22 page release that's formatted in a standard print size), Critical Entertainment lets the story dictate the print needs of the individual story. Bold and dynamic, it offers readers something a bit different to find on the shelves. Their silent sci-fi epic “Space Dragon” might be one of the boldest examples of this refreshing approach. At a 115 pages, this trade measures in at 7.5" x 12" and is glorious. How else should a planet-sized intergalactic swimming dragon be experienced on the page!Continuing with their fresh approach, Reda is writing a series that's being illustrated by the very voice you're reading now. That's right it's me, Tadd (always remember, never forget)! “The First Americans” is a title that explores a genre that is mostly unique for todays pop-pubs of capes, sci-fi dramas, and life-slices. As speculative fiction, “First Americans” is the journey of a hunter at the tail end of the ice age some 14 thousand years ago. Who parts with his peoples and the fierce woman of his heart, to track a mammoth and its small herd. Taking him from the eastern Steppe of Siberia, through the gateway of Beringia, and into the new lands of the Americas. It's an exploration of the human spirit, always pushing toward the beyond of the horizon. The emboldened hunter encounters megafauna, natural elements, and looks into the depths of his own soul as he trudges deeper through vast unknown wilderness. Ambitious in story and execution. As the artist, I changed up my approach and tackle a different style to best fit our storytelling, referencing a master of historical fiction and ink composition, Serio Toppi. While Reda takes an equally unique approach. Letting the story dictate the page count, freeing the flow of physical print limitations. Each chapter comes in thicker than the usual newsstand floppy, and as a quarterly release to boast, throughout the next two years. First Americans, has been a long time coming and now it finally breaks through the ice and into local comic shops next week, March 27th. Or if you need to start the journey now visit Critical Entertainment site to get “First Americans” and their numerous other titles!A note from Tadd: The “NOW” is the resurgence of the independent creator through crowd sourcing and self-publishing availability. As the veil gets pulled back ever further and the predatory practices of corporate models get revealed, it is more and more important to support those who actually create the stories and art that we as consumers enjoy. So SUPPORT INDIE PROJECTS and their CREATORS. Help make the indies the mainstream. Even the smallest of gestures can be of the biggest help.Have you experienced the elusive and majestic energy of the Blue Tiger? Had a sighting in the wilderness of the eternal forest? Drank the blue milk of it's revenge? Then let the people know it exists!And check out “TAIGA”, Tadd's latest graphic novel with new pages weekly. Exclusively at patreon.com/gnarpig This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bluetigerrevenge.substack.com

Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. We talk mainly about Vladimir Nabokov: Brian wrote the defining biography on Nabokov (in addition to books on more specific aspects about Nabokov), so we discuss Nabokov's life & work, Brian's approachh to writing biographies, with some hints of the new biography Brian is writing about Karl Popper.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why this is a special episode for me0:07:02: Nabokov's family & childhood0:15:54: The Russian Revolution, starting in 19170:19:52: Nabokov's study years in Cambridge and emigre years in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s0:30:19: Nabokov's early American years: teaching and butterflies0:35:56: Nabokov's Russian vs English works, and the problem of translations0:41:48: Lolita0:50:13: Pale Fire1:02:46: Nabokov's writing process1:07:26: Nabokov's reception1:10:00: Writing Nabokov's biography: how it started, meeting Nabokov's family, researching and writing, and the responsibility of writing the defining work on someone1:28:26: Which Nabokov book should new readers read first?1:30:58: A book or paper more people should read1:35:03: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner1:38:47: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrian's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/boyd-webBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe estate Nabokov inherent and immediately lost in th revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozhdestveno_Memorial_EstateAda online, Brian's line-by-line annotations to Nabokov's Ada: https://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ Boyd (1985/2001). Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Boyd (1990). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Boyd (1991). Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.Boyd & Pyle (eds) (2000).  Nabokov's Butterflies .Boyd (2001). Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.Grass (1959). Die Blechtrommel.James (1897). What Maisie Knew. Machado de Assis (1882). The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. [The 2 new translations are by Thomson-DeVeaux (Penguin Classics), and by Jull Costa & Patterson (Liveright)]Nabokov (1929). The (Luzhin) Defense. Nabokov (1936). Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov (1947). Bend Sinister. Nabokov (1955). Lolita. Nabokov (1957). Pnin. Nabokov (1962). Pale Fire. Nabokov (1967). Speak, Memory. Nabokov (1969). Ada or Ardor.Tarnowsky (1908). Les femmes homicides. [Nabokov's great-aunt; see also:  Huff-Corzine & Toohy (2023). The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother. Journal of Criminal Justice]Vila, Bell, Macniven, Goldman-Huertas, Ree, Marshall, ... & Pierce (2011). Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Happy New Year! To kick of 2024 we're reviewing Disney's Brother Bear (2003), the story of a human learning to be nice to animals by being forced to live as one. This is low-key a stone age movie – it's set in Beringia during the Pleistocene, but other than some mammoths and glaciers, it doesn't shove its stone-age-ness in your face. In this episode we talk cave art, megafauna, and, as always, Canadiana. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Bob and Doug McKenzie: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C_IXyCsZ4bA&list=OLAK5uy_kmIuOa4rRCtjC9tBvhOf35Nda6aV6G-ro Buy yerself a toque, eh? https://toque.ca/ Petroforms in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba: https://whiteshellpetroforms.com/ Navajo Sand Painting: https://navajopeople.org/navajo-sand-painting.htm Indigenous languages of the Arctic: https://www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallamin-arctic-languages The Peopling of the North American Arctic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/06/13/the-peopling-of-the-north-american-arctic/ Bald eagle vs. red-tailed hawk calls: https://www.treehugger.com/you-know-call-bald-eagle-you-hear-tv-thats-not-bald-eagle-4864532 The last woolly mammoths went extinct on Wrangel Island 4000 years ago: https://www.livescience.com/woolly-mammoth-genetic-problems.html The St. Paul Island mammoths: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/st-paul-island-mammoths-most-accurately-dated-prehistoric-extinction-ever/ Pleistocene megafauna of Beringia: https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-17-1-4.htm HOPE Lab merch: https://www.facebook.com/people/HOPE-lab/100090365641812/

Happy New Year! To kick of 2024 we're reviewing Disney's Brother Bear (2003), the story of a human learning to be nice to animals by being forced to live as one. This is low-key a stone age movie – it's set in Beringia during the Pleistocene, but other than some mammoths and glaciers, it doesn't shove its stone-age-ness in your face. In this episode we talk cave art, megafauna, and, as always, Canadiana. Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Bob and Doug McKenzie: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C_IXyCsZ4bA&list=OLAK5uy_kmIuOa4rRCtjC9tBvhOf35Nda6aV6G-roBuy yerself a toque, eh? https://toque.ca/Petroforms in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba: https://whiteshellpetroforms.com/ Navajo Sand Painting: https://navajopeople.org/navajo-sand-painting.htmIndigenous languages of the Arctic: https://www.arcticpeoples.com/sagastallamin-arctic-languages The Peopling of the North American Arctic: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/06/13/the-peopling-of-the-north-american-arctic/Bald eagle vs. red-tailed hawk calls: https://www.treehugger.com/you-know-call-bald-eagle-you-hear-tv-thats-not-bald-eagle-4864532 The last woolly mammoths went extinct on Wrangel Island 4000 years ago: https://www.livescience.com/woolly-mammoth-genetic-problems.html The St. Paul Island mammoths: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/st-paul-island-mammoths-most-accurately-dated-prehistoric-extinction-ever/Pleistocene megafauna of Beringia: https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-17-1-4.htm HOPE Lab merch: https://www.facebook.com/people/HOPE-lab/100090365641812/

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Affen erkennen Freunde und Familie wieder +++ Zunge ist bei jedem anders +++ Barbie sollte Chirurgin werden +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades, PNAS 19.12.23Machine learning and topological data analysis identify unique features of human papillae in 3D scans, Scientific Reports, 14.12.2023Analysis of Barbie medical and science career dolls: descriptive quantitative study,The BMJ, 18.12.2023Did a “Sea-ice Highway” facilitate early human migration from Beringia into North America along the coastal route? Vortrag auf der AGU-Konferenz123456789 ist das beliebteste Passwort 2023 in Deutschland, Mitteilung HPI, Zugriff 19.12.2023Effect of a doctor working during the festive period on population health: natural experiment using 60 years of Doctor Who episodes (the TARDIS study), The BMJ, 18.12.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

Thanks to Hannah, who suggested sheep as this week's topic! We'll also learn about a few other hoofed animals, including the weird giraffe relative, sivatherium. Further reading: The American Jacob Sheep Breeders' Association What happened with that Sumerian 'sivathere' figurine after Colbert's paper of 1936? Well, a lot. A Jacob sheep ewe with four horns (pic from JSBA site linked above): The male four-horned antelope [photo by K. Sharma at this site]: A modern reconstruction of sivatherium that looks a lot like a giraffe [By Hiuppo - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2872962]: The rein ring in question (on the left) that might be a siveratherium but might just be a deer: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we're going to look at an animal suggested by Hannah a long time ago. Hannah suggested we talk about sheep, and I can't even tell you how many times I almost did this episode but decided to push it back just a little longer. Finally, though, we have the sheep episode we've all been waiting for! We're also going to learn about a strange animal called sivatherium and a mystery surrounding when it went extinct. The sheep has cloven hooves and is a ruminant related to goats and cattle. It mostly eats grass, and it chews its cud to further break down the plants it eats. It's one of the oldest domesticated animals in the world, with some experts estimating that it was first domesticated over 13,000 years ago. Mammoths still roamed the earth then. Sheep are especially useful to humans because not only can you eat them, they produce wool. Wool has incredible insulating properties, as you'll know if you've ever worn a wool sweater in the snow. Even if it gets wet, you stay nice and warm. Even better, you don't have to kill the sheep to get the wool. The sheep just gets a haircut every year to cut its wool short. Wild sheep don't grow a lot of wool, though. They mostly have hair like goats. Humans didn't start selecting for domestic sheep that produced wool until around 8,000 years ago. Like other animals that were domesticated a very long time ago, including dogs and horses, we're not sure what the direct ancestor of the domestic sheep is. It seems to be most closely related to the mouflon, which is native to parts of the middle east. The mouflon is reddish-brown with darker and lighter markings and it looks a lot like a goat. Other species of wild sheep live in various parts of the world but aren't as closely related to the domestic sheep. The bighorn and Dall sheep of western North America are closely related to the snow sheep of eastern Asia and Siberia. The ancestors of all three species spread from eastern Asia into North America during the Pleistocene when sea levels were low and Asia and North America were connected by the land bridge Beringia. The male sheep is called a ram and grows horns that curl in a spiral pattern, while the female sheep is called a ewe. Some ewes have small horns, some don't. This is the case for both wild and domestic sheep. Sheep use their horns as defensive weapons, butting potential predators who get too close, and they also butt each other. Rams in particular fight each other to establish dominance, although ewes do too. But some breeds of domestic sheep are what is called polycerate, which means multi-horned. That means a sheep may have more than two horns, typically up to six. Many years ago I kept a few Jacob sheep, which are a polycerate breed, and in a Patreon episode from 2018 I went into really too much detail about this particular breed of sheep. I will cut that short here. The Jacob is a hardy, small sheep with tough hooves, and it's white with black spots. Ideally, a Jacob sheep will have four or six well-balanced horns. In a six-horned sheep, the upper pair branch upward, the middle pair curl like an ordinary ram's horns,

In this null* episode, Dawson Zulz discusses the 'interim' period between the last episode in September of 2021 and now and how Beringia will be moving forward into a new season. From the war in Europe to the death of a monarch, there's a lot of catching up to do!*Much like Season 1's "Null," this episode is closer to a trailer than a full episode.Beringia will return in full on November 1st, 2023.

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Painting a Legacy: The Impact of Doug Driediger's Artistic VisionDo you feel like you're constantly told to prioritize quality work as an entrepreneurial artist, but you're still not seeing the results you want? If so, you're not alone. It's time to ditch the ineffective actions and learn from industry experts in this episode. Discover innovative approaches to blending entrepreneurship and art, the crucial role of collaboration and communication, and the power of perseverance and passion in achieving long-term success. Plus, explore the effectiveness of all-inclusive services for the oil and gas industry and the creative financial responses that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's time to prioritize quality work and get the results you deserve.Saying yes and being willing to jump off a cliff is a big part of success as an entrepreneur.Meet Doug Driediger, a talented artist, mural painter, and designer who founded Metro Design Group in 1981. With a passion for creating unique and captivating art, Doug has worked on various large-scale projects, including the Waterton Park Interpretive Center and numerous public art installations across Canada. As a dedicated artist, Doug believes in the power of perseverance, quality work, and following one's passion to achieve success in the world of entrepreneurship. Get inspired by Doug's incredible journey from humble beginnings to becoming a respected leader in the artistic community.This is Doug Driediger's story:Doug Driediger's artistic journey began with a deep-rooted passion for drawing and painting. His humble beginnings and unwavering support from his partner helped him stay true to his craft. Over time, Doug continued to say yes to every opportunity that came his way, pushing himself to take on bigger and more ambitious projects. With each success came further opportunities, from painting a mural in Shimanus, BC to creating the largest painting he had done at the Calgary Petroleum Club. Doug's dedication to always delivering the highest quality work, even when it meant making sacrifices, allowed him to make a name for himself as an artist.In this episode, you will be able to:Unravel Doug Driediger's inventive fusion of business and artistry in creating public masterpieces.Recognize the essential need for partnership and open communication to ensure the Waterton Park Visitors Center project's accomplishment.Acknowledge the power of tenacity, high-quality work, and following your passion in driving success.Pursuing Quality Over ProfitIn the pursuit of creative success, prioritizing quality over profit sets entrepreneurial artists apart from others. This approach involves creating exceptional work regardless of the project's financial gain. By focusing on creating high-caliber work, entrepreneurial artists can establish themselves as trusted and reliable professionals who genuinely care about their craft. This, in turn, can attract more lucrative opportunities in the long run. Doug Driediger's story demonstrates the importance of doing one's best, even when a project may not be profitable. His company, Metrographics, has always centered its approach on creating beautiful and quality work, regardless of the budget. Despite initially struggling financially, Doug and his partner persisted, believing in the value of his art and the unwavering dedication to quality.The Natural Spaces of CalgaryNature can be a significant source of inspiration for entrepreneurial artists, and exploring the outdoors can help spark creative ideas. Different locations provide unique perspectives and opportunities for artists, with each environment offering something distinctive for artistic endeavors. In their conversation, Doug revealed his fondness for Calgary's natural spaces and vast pathway systems. He recommended that fellow artists and nature enthusiasts explore these locations to appreciate the various art pieces throughout the city. By doing so, artists can discover new avenues for inspiration and expression, honing their craft and deepening their connection with the world around them.The resources mentioned in this episode are:Visit the Beringia center and Whitehorse visitors center for environment and climate change Canada in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick parks.Explore Canada's national historic sites, town of Batish and the new Canadian wilds experience at the Calgary zoo.Consider using Metro Design Group for culture building experiences across Canada, trail guides, and visitor centers.Visit Waterton Park and experience the new heart of the park.Timestamped summary of this episode:00:00:00 - Introduction, Kim Hayden introduces Doug Driediger and his company, Metro Design Group, which designs and builds cultural buildings and experiences across Canada.00:03:09 - Doug's Background, Doug talks about being a muralist, artist, designer, and marathon runner. He reflects on his start as a tiny advertising agency and how his strengths have always been in design and fine art.00:08:13 - Designing the Waterton Park Center, Doug discusses the collaborative process of designing the Waterton Park Center with his team, including architects and First Nations liaisons. He emphasizes the importance of integrating both indigenous and Eurocentric views in the design.00:11:20 - Art as Communication, Doug highlights the role of art in making people aware of things they may not have thought of before and expanding their appreciation for nature and each other. He emphasizes the power of hand-done human touch painted experiences compared to text or photography.00:14:19 - Business and Collaboration, Doug talks about the necessary collaborative aspect of being a fine artist and emphasizes the importance of saying yes to opportunities and being willing to jump off a cliff as an entrepreneur. He also reflects on the iterative process of refining designs with clients and his team.00:15:24 - Finding Joy in Art, Doug discusses his passion for painting and how opportunities tend to bring more opportunities. He shares how he and his wife lived a humble life to pursue his passion and how he always did his best to deliver quality work.00:17:05 - Pursuing Quality Over Profit, Doug talks about his company, Metrographics, and how they prioritize quality over profit. He shares how they try to learn from each project and use it as a sales opportunity for the next one.00:19:19 - Taking Advantage of Opportunities, Doug shares a story of how he got a big break in his painting career through an opportunity that came his way. He believes that luck is where opportunity meets action and advises people to always say yes to opportunities.00:21:11 - Painting Calgary's Largest Mural, Doug talks about his experience painting Calgary's largest mural at the Petroleum Club. He shares how he snuck in his family members into the mural and how he had to work hard to finish it in time for Stampede.00:26:15 - The Natural Spaces of Calgary, When asked about hidden gems in Calgary, Doug recommends exploring the city's outdoor trails and natural spaces. He advises young artists to follow their passion and do what they enjoy doing without worrying about making money.Connect with me here:https://www.linkedin.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/calgary-petroleum-club-3a5868117/https://www.youtube.com/https://www.youtube.com/user/calpeteclubhttps://www.youtube.com/https://www.youtube.com/user/calpeteclubhttps://www.twitter.com/https://twitter.com/calpeteclubhttps://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/calpeteclubhttps://calpeteclub.com/

#olmec #indigenous #blackhistory https://cash.app/$BlackConsciousness Spotify Link - Listen Now: Blog: https://realblackconsciousnessesforum387099824.wordpress.com/ Email the podcast: rbcforum313@yahoo.com Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-south-american-migrants-had-australian-melanesian-ancestry Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2025739118 According to Science.org: In 2015, scientists discovered something surprising: that some Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon were distantly—but distinctly—related to native Australians and Melanesians. The genetic signal of Australasian ancestry in so far-flung a population sent researchers scrambling for answers. A new study reveals this genetic signal is more prevalent throughout South America than thought and suggests the people who first carried these genes into the New World got it from an ancestral Siberian population. The finding also sheds light on those people's migration routes to South America. "It's a really nice piece of work," says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, who wasn't involved in the study. It shows that the 2015 finding "wasn't just an artifact. It really is a widespread genetic signal." Anthropologists think bands of hardy hunter-gatherers left Siberia and entered the now-submerged land of Beringia, which then connected Eurasia and Alaska, when sea levels were much lower than today—perhaps about 20,000 years ago. Then, about 15,000 years or so ago, some departed Beringia and fanned out into North and South America. These early migrants made good time: By 14,800 years ago at the latest, radiocarbon dates suggest they were setting up camp in Monte Verde in southern Chile. hashtags: #inca #spain #southamerica #indian #negro #ancient #olmec #olmeccivilation #archetype #messenger #spirit #hare #bransoncognac #lecheminduroi #trickster #rabbit #ixchel #decolonize #cannabis #sancuary #ritual #diaspora #Indigenous #IndigenousWomen #BlackIndigenous #Aborigine #cosmicsister #psychedelicfeminism #zoehelene #healing #empowerment #selfliberation #womensupportingwomen #plantmedicine #westafrica #akata #obruni #racial #racialslur #congo #liberian #racism #blackonblack #blackhistory #blackamericans #america #american #coppercolored #americanhistory #history #instagood #akata #manga #akatalent #kunst #sunyani #accra #accraghana #dripdripdrip #drip #driptoohard #uk #usa #usadrip #akataboyz #dior #boys #boymom #shs #shsrepost #shsprincess #hiper #hiperteen #hiphopmusic #hipergh #ghana #ghanastyle #kumasi #ghanadrip #bookstagram #shojo --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realblackforum/message

Well, it's finally here. The last interview of the WildFed Podcast. We'll be back next week with our producer Grant to do a final wrap-up, but as far as guest appearances go, who better to take us out than Dan Flores, and on what better topic than his new book, Wild New World. The book is incredible, even, dare we say, required reading for anyone who's been following the journey of this podcast. It's not just a history of North America and the animals that live here now — the extant animals — and the ones that were here before — the extinct ones. It's also the story of the human predator crossing through Beringia and being unleashed on a homonin-naive megafauna assemblage and the impacts that would have here over the proceeding 20,000 years or so.  It traces its way through the Clovis and Folsom cultures, to the post-ice-age extinction events that led to the great mass of cultures we refer to as Native American, up to the point of contact with European explorers. Then, what follows, as we are all painfully aware, is the Great Dying, which led to the loss of some 80-90% of the indigenous peoples of the continent due to diseases that Europeans had developed significant immunity to but were novel to Native America. And of course, colonization and westward expansion. This then gives way to the most substantial human-induced biomass reduction in known history, the denuding of the land and the commodification of its wildlife — which comes with it several tragic, high-profile extinctions. This part of the book is both compelling and at the same time gruesome and loathsome to read about. It's truly a blemish on the history of this country and something we are a long way from reconciling still.   Eventually, this leads to the beginnings of the modern conservation movement, which carries us through to the present day, exploring both its sometimes less-than-savory origins, but also its tremendous wins, like the Endangered Species Act.  The book walks us through to the very present with some speculation about the future. When Daniel last spoke to Dan, he'd only read a few chapters, and those were some feel-good pages. He didn't really understand what was to come or how it would shake him to the core. He didn't expect it would cause him to reevaluate many of his assumptions or make him audit his own practices and how they relate to this bigger-picture history. It's so easy to forget that we live, not as isolated points in space and time, but rather in a continuum. Embedded in a fabric of living history. Without context for what has come before, we can inadvertently focus myopically on where we are now. Conservation is no different. While our methods for wildlife management are light-years ahead of where they were just a century ago, one thing we've learned making this show is there's still a LONG way to go. It's far from perfect. All that said, humans are and always have been — as long as our genus has existed — predators. Not just dietarily, but behaviorally. Those of us that hunt and fish know this in a very intimate way. The idea of giving that up is not really an option for most of us — despite the hopes of the planet's vegan contingent who believes we can just implement a species-wide dietary experiment on the human population without any malnourishment consequences to ourselves or children. Daniel has been down that road and it leads, in his opinion, off the rails and into nutritional bankruptcy.  So, it seems to us that we need to learn to balance our needs, wants, and desires as a predatory animal with our needs, wants and desires for intact fauna and healthy ecosystems. No easy task. One that's not just centuries, but millennia, in the making. It seems to us that this decade could be characterized by a now hyper-connected and networked human race coming to terms with itself, its past, and its future. Those of us who champion a meaningful ecological trophic connection to wildlife are going to have to do the same. We hope, when the dust settles, we can still hunt, fish, and forage, since as Daniel has stated on this show dozens if not a hundred times — we think this is essentially human.  Who knows where this all leads, but we're grateful to Dan for this book and the incredible work that must have gone into writing such a sweeping ecological and environmental history. We suspect this one is destined to be a classic. Dan is, no doubt, one of the most important environmental writers of our day, and it's an honor to have him back on the show — and especially as our final interview.  As we mentioned earlier, we'll be back next week for one final, more intimate episode of the show. Thank you so much for following along on this journey, for your support, and for your listenership. It has meant the world to us! Now, here's our second interview with Dan Flores on his newest book, Wild New World! View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/173

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Turkish tree ring record suggests drought caused collapse of the Hittite Empire (details) New study identifies two narrow windows when coastal Beringia was passable (details) Bone spear fragments found in Washington may be oldest weapon in the Americas (details) (details) (details) French burial shows gold wires used to hold aristocrat's teeth in place (details)

Can understanding glaciers & genetics of Turtle Island help us understand early human inhabitation patterns?ReferencesClague & Ward. (2011). Growth and Decay of Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/cordilleran-ice-sheetUnit 2 -  Human Migration and the First Settlers to North AmericaCordilleran Ice Sheet in Northwest Washington | Doug Clark | November 20, 2021Energy Paradoxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idahohttps://www.distance.to/Idaho/Hokkaido,JPNBilyeau, N. (2019). ​​Oldest DNA in America Traced Back to Montana Man. The Vintage News. Online Magazine. Davis, L.G. et al. (2019). Late upper paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago. Science magazine. Vol 365, Issue 6456, pp. 891-897. Retrieved from https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.aax9830https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/23/11/2161/1329708How to tell mastodons apart from mammothsThe First Americans and the Debra L. Friedkin Site, TexasBalter, M. (2014). What killed the giant beasts of North America? Science magazine. Retrieved from https://www.science.org/content/article/what-killed-great-beasts-north-americaSmallwood, Ashley. (2015). Context and spatial organization of the Clovis assemblage from the Topper site, South Carolina. Journal of Field Archaeology. 40. 69-88. 10.1179/0093469014Z.000000000106. Goodyear & Sain. (2018). The Pre-Clovis Occupation of the Topper Site, Allendale County, South Carolina. Retrieved from ResearchGate.Net. DOI: 10.5744/florida/9781683400349.003.0002https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13025​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-L54https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-M3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-M242https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/30515https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epochhttps://www.travelmath.com/drive-distance/from/Calgary,+Canada/to/Boise,+IDClimate Research and Development Program. (2021). Retrieved from https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-research-and-development-program/news/discovery-ancient-human-footprints-whiteSupport the show

Is there a pyramid bigger than the pyramid of Giza causing ruckus in Alaska??? Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-americans-lived-on-bering-land-bridge-for-thousands-of-years/ https://www.livescience.com/64786-beringia-map-during-ice-age.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-infants-buried-together-alaska-suggest-long-journey-americas https://www.nps.gov/bela/learn/historyculture/the-bering-land-bridge-theory.htm https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/bering-land-bridge-first-americans/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humans-came-to-americas-180973739/ https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119353933/bison-blue-babe-preserved-eaten https://www.alaska.org/how-big-is-alaska https://adventures.com/blog/10-interesting-facts-about-alaska/ https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/phoenixcityarizona https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-15-na-vanished15-story.html https://www.legendsofamerica.com/alaska-triangle/ https://www.space.com/15139-northern-lights-auroras-earth-facts-sdcmp.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/height.html https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/world/chinese-set-off-their-biggest-nuclear-explosion.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/sa/sa_jan02srm01.html

In 1848, New England ships crossed the Bering Strait in pursuit of the bowhead whales that provided their income. In the years since, the activity of outsiders- from hunters, to government bureaucrats from the US and Russia / Soviet Union, to consumers of energy who never set foot in the region- has had a deep impact on the region, but the environment of Beringia has made the place itself an active participant in this process. About a century and a half after New England whalers crossed the Bering Strait, Bathsheba Demuth graduated High School in Iowa and moved north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon. She later earned a PhD in history, and is currently Associate Professor of History at Brown University. In this episode, Bathsheba joins Ben for a conversation about her research, how her fascination with the arctic led her to dedicate much of her life to understanding Beringia, and the ways that an environmental perspective allows us to better understand our place in the world and that of others. Bathsheba's new book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait was published by W.W. Norton & Co in 2019. It is a masterpiece. For more on Dr. Bathsheba Demuth, visit her website- www.brdemuth.com- and follow her on instagram at @brdemuth. This is a reair of RTN Episode #153, which originally aired on December 2, 2019. This rebroadcast was edited by Ben Sawyer.

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If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today, I wanted to speak to you a little bit about rendering out mp4 video. I know that's probably a pretty exciting topic for everybody. That's what I've been doing recently, I've been trying to kind of put all of that on this workhorse desktop computer that I'm using. And I'm trying to use Well, first I was trying to use Lightroom, right, you are probably familiar with talking about Lightroom for managing photos and sort of working with them and editing them. It also has limited capabilities of working with the video files that come off the DSLR that are just kind of commonplace with modern DSLR cameras. So bringing those videos over there, they're normally some kind of MPEG container format of which I've seen I guess, MK V or chaos is that sort of Chrysler, I don't know, isn't, it might be a different thing. But there's like a hit like MTS or something like that there's a handful of these different little container file extensions that I'm trying to sort out, they're fine, they seem to open to most things, I'm not having a big problem with it. Other than AVC HD, I'm trying to sort those out if I have any of those raw ones around. But I have this library of videos around now, I appreciate having the original files. And if that's important to you, as a media creator, I recommend keeping those source files around at a higher quality. But for me, with a lot of elements of video, especially a lot of projects that are done, but maybe some things that are kind of like an accomplished project, but I want to keep those media elements around, but not necessarily in their whole quality by any means anymore. So I'm trying to go through and render those things out. And not necessarily about a quality thing, but just about an odd format thing like I was just explaining with MK V's and Mt SS and three GPS and mo visa those are quite common, but I'm trying to make the system just a little bit more uniform for the video experience of the videos that I have. I'm trying to render those out. I was trying to use Lightroom. To do this. I was trying to use it in mass to render out and refile names, and all of these video elements so that I don't have any more collisions with these video files. As I'm moving the file names around, you know, image 001 dot mp4 overwrites image 001 dot mp4 created two years later on a different SD card account format. Whatever it is, it's been a problem before I probably lost media because of that error. So to try and correct that I'm trying to come through and render everything out with an additional date name that I was able to add in Lightroom. But Lightroom kept crashing or at least would not render the video that I had trying to get out from the Lightroom catalog that I had the video stored in so it was kinda interesting. I like a lot of problems with that it did a great job with a handful of the sets of videos like the three GP, I think the MTS and mkvs I think it worked through quite well but any of these mo v files and just sits it doesn't necessarily even lag, it's just not rendering frames, it just sits there like it wasn't asked to respond the computer's processors don't kick up at all. It's not like it's trying to render a video but not or I don't know, it's just like pretends like it didn't get asked to do anything at the time. So it's all the struggle of trying to render video so I ended up dumping Lightroom because I was hoping that I could do some automatic file naming and file categorizing with Lightroom and how to do a bulk export of video under the format that I was hoping and kind of have it you know, automate some of that file naming system and export settings and stuff. I ended up switching over to handbrake because I was having such a hard time getting Lightroom to grab onto the video and do anything with it. So I've been having a great experience with the handbrake so far. And there are a lot of tools and more modern systems in handbrake that make the file naming and recompression system quite easy. We can set things as same as the source and use the file name of the source. And that's where he quite well to kind of grab a file, put it in a render queue. With new settings that are pretty automatic, where it's you know, it's kind of like a two or three-click operation to get a new video added to the queue. And so just earlier today, I added 100 dot mo v files to the queue, which I hope are set up correctly, I think there are a couple of mistakes I made in there. We'll see how they render out but I put those in the queue and I'm doing a test of it now. And that stronger computer as opposed to my laptop is burning through those video frames much faster I think it was because I was rendering out about 30 frames a second. So it's almost like real-time rendering. If you were to think of it like you know, 30 frames a second in the video. Well, 30 frames got rendered of that video and just that one second, so it's going through it much faster than I'm used to in the olden days. It's kind of fun to see who knows where it will be 10 years from now. 5:05 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, cool stuff over there. This image was a quick screenshot or a quick capture that we made around the campsite, near Lone Pine, California, and the Alabama hills, and it was a cool campsite. I think we stayed there for about, I don't know, four to six days or so in November and December of 2012 cool time of year to be out there. And we were fortunate I think Easter this year in Nevada, we had that rain shadow so that it was just a lot drier on the east side of California than it was on that coastal side of this year in Nevada is when we were there a few weeks before that, but a cool thing about this campsite if you guys were to bother to look it up. It matches the broom Hilda saw from Django Unchained. If you were to watch that, we found that out I think right after we camped here at the spot, then we'd watched the movie Django just a few months later. And we were like, whoa, wait a second. We had just been to that spot. that exact spot right there right where this picture was taken. I think I think there's a scene where it shows Jamie Foxx sitting over on the rock that is currently the kitchen table in this scene. But yeah, it's kind of interesting. I think the shot was set up a little differently, but it was cool to see and you're like wow, that's right where we used to be interesting when you find out a spot that you were or something else was found. And it seems like a remote kind of campsite like this, but I'm sure over the years 1000s of people have been there. You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo 360 degree photo work over the last couple of weeks which has been cool and I've enjoyed it a lot. I liked doing the 360 stuff. I think back in June of 2018 we had done a bunch of podcasts about some of the 360 photography stuff that we were trying to do and some of the video stuff we were doing with the GoPro fusion at the time. And that was all cool and I liked that video a lot this time I was working with a Ricoh Theta zone. And I was going around to a few locations to try and get the photographs. Specifically, I think photographs are a lot in this circumstance, but not so many videos. But yeah, really interested the in the 360 photography stuff that I was able to, edit together and capture during that time. So it was cool. But I went to an area in, Central Oregon, that was pretty cool and went up on like a hillside to do some 360 work. And it's cool out there because you can see the topography of how the Great Basin was formed at the well I guess like during the whole era of the Pleistocene as it was for a long-standing period. Like a lake, it was just a big lake out there. And then as things started changing at the end of the Pleistocene, I think there were huge changes that ended the Great Basin stuff that ended a lot of the megafauna that was in the area. And that kind of changed the topography of the landscape over the last 10,000 years to be something much more of the high desert sagebrush Juniper tree exposed rock landscape that we see today and a lot less of the forested temperate kind of mountain climate that we have through the Cascades and part of Oregon, I'm sure it was always more dry, given the rain shatter the Cascade Mountains there. But I think that for a long period, as according to signs posted on my drives in areas where I go hiking sometimes but you know, like when you go up to someplace and it says, you know, this area so such and such time ago had these animals in it where you see like giant beavers, or you see like camels or giant sloths, I guess they added the area so there are all sorts of stuff that they had, that ended up being wiped out and 100,000 years ago, 60,000 years ago, 9:47 to, what, 1020 10,000 years ago, something like that. There are a lot of changes that happened throughout the Pleistocene, I guess during what they call the quarternary period, a period of glaciation. That the earth has been involved in for the last 100,000 or 200, maybe million years. I'm not sure it's the last couple of 100,000 years we've been going in these cycles of glaciation. So you know, we're in an ice age period. So we go into an ice age like we have ice on the Earth right now. It'll be more ice at a point and then less ice at a point. More is at a point less I said a point, I guess it's been going on for what they say somewhere around like 200,000 years, these 30,000-year periods of glaciation to nonglaciation. where like, I think we're coming, we're like on the far end of the Glacial Maximum now. So we had the, with the Glacial Maximum about like, what, 11,000 12,000 years ago? Or is that right? No, it must have been, like 15 20,000 years ago that we're at the maximum, then it started receding, I suppose. That's when we were able to know. That doesn't make sense. We had like the land bridge, like the Beringia stuff where people got over that was probably 15 to 20,000. sea levels were low or they were like 400 feet, they squared along the coastlines. They came over through the land. So that was all pretty long ago. Well, anyway, at some point, like I was there like I'm gonna figure out Wait, let me remember. Let me think back to 15,000 years ago, where was I? Yeah, I wasn't here. So I don't know what happened. But apparently, there's been some recorded evidence that I learned about, and I think it's like Montverde down in Chile. And that's a location where I think they carbon dated something to 15,000 years old, like human remains human element remains, there's, there's like a few locations here in Oregon, where they I guess have evidence of the Clovis people that sort of around like the 1112 13,000 year mark. And then there's other evidence of things that are I don't know within like it's time it's like anything from like 7500 years to 15,000 years ago seems to all kind of be in flux have a date, because there are not many, not many perfect ways to date that. And if it's a cultural artifact, like, an arrowhead, or a pot shard, or a scraper, there's some indication of how those things are going to be created or how those artifacts are going to be created and how there's are going to remain like Folsom points or Clovis points are pretty distinct from each other but they're not culturally distinct from each other. So it could be like a variation of many different tribes and languages and peoples all well unrelated to each other but related with a similar vein of technology for a few 1000 years of you know, their tool use shape was kind of similar because they're all kind of from a similar descendency but I think when you get like more than 100 miles away your language is separate over like a couple of generations. You just got to speak different languages. But man wild stuff anyway, so I don't remember where we started with this. But I was out in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Great Basin, I went up on a hillside and public land and I was doing some 360 photography work with the Ricoh zeta Oh, Ricoh Theta zone. That's what it is. And yeah, I was capturing some stuff on a hillside really beautiful areas up there where those ridges kind of drop in and out. And so it's cool when you get like up to a higher elevation, you can kind of see the pockets of where these legs and pools of water and kind of sat and rested for what seems like 13:36 I think I was saying something about recording some 360 photographs up on some public land in the high desert, in Lake County in the Great Basin area of Eastern Oregon, a beautiful spot over there. I enjoy it and yeah, it was awesome to use the Ricoh Theta zone to be capturing some images up in that area, it's cool when you're at a higher elevation. And with a 360 camera, you can kind of it provides a little bit of a different perspective, it seems silly to see wider, but when you re when you kind of replay those images, and you're able to sort of look around in the context of what's the left and to the right of you, you're kind of able to put together the context of the landscape a little better, a little faster than you could if you just had a series of individual photographs that had segments of the wider landscape captured in those cool at that higher elevation. You can kind of look down to areas that we had been hiking around earlier in the day through some of the ridges and troughs that would be over in that area. And you can look down you know it's like 500 feet down in elevation to what we thought was kind of the mountain top pass and then pass that as another maybe 1000 foot or a couple of 100-foot drop in elevation as it goes down toward The lake basin area. So all that was pretty cool. And what was also cool about it is just sort of visualizing how populated that area had been in the past, I think, you know, before the Western expansion of the United States and as 1000s of years passed by in this region of land in the northwest, it had been populated in that region specifically been populated by nomadic tribes that had been able to travel and subsist off of the wild game that was there, I think a lot of like antelope and deer, and it looks like bighorn sheep by some of their planning some kind of sheep, but it looks like that from some of their, their pictographs and petroglyphs information that they left then the dynamics of some of those populations of animals have changed in the time. Now given like modern day, I don't know, I don't know if we're gonna see a lot of sheep out there in Lake County, but there's one drawn on a rock out there. So they must have been trying to look for it. There's a lot of them in the southwest as he moved into the I think the Mohawk tribes. For him, that's more of a 3000 to 25 2000. I don't know, it's probably bad. It was 3600 years ago, sort of thing. But, 100 years ago I think it was like Captain jack over there Captain jack's stronghold for the Murdoch Indian Reservation area. That was like in the Indian Wars of the 1850s. So the last to tell them but yeah, there's some information about some of the pilot, the pilot Indians, I think the Northern piute that were in that area of Southern southeastern Oregon, Nevada, then into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico if I kind of understood right, but I know there are some fluctuations in there. And differences in timing and stuff. But yeah, dollar, is pretty cool stuff and is awesome to get out there. It's, it's cool to get out and kind of walk around in scenarios of some public land, where we slash and access and still get out to try and do some photography stuff, even in this period where you're supposed to stay home and there's a lockdown it was, it was cool to kind of get out and try and do some exploring and some social distance conscious. I mean, that's fine with me, I don't, I don't have to be around a lot of people, it's better to do landscape wildlife photography worked while you're sort of in some type of isolation, I'm sure like a lot of hunters are kind of considering something like that to you know, hunters, fishermen, people like hiking or you know, a lot of those solo activities, it's cool that you know, this kind of this time, sort of is provided a little bit of a reset for probably a lot of people out there to have a bit more time to invest in some of the things that they'd want to, I suppose a lot of folks are probably stuck more in their local area but it's a great time too, to get to invest in some things that seem more important to you. So that's what I've been trying to do. I hope you guys are doing well. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more at Billy Newman's photo calm I've been doing a ton of updates over there. The airplane is taking off. Sounds like prop plans are about to fly over my head. It's like that scene in North by Northwest. Cary Grant starts getting run down by that biplane. 18:23 That'd be scary. So that's that in the future. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 18:32 Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com few new things up there some stuff on the homepage and good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back 18:53 end

que Javi no es humano o, por lo menos, no es un humano de verdad Y es que, a veces, si vieseis la trastienda de Menudo Castillo, ¡alucinaríais! Esta semana hemos tenido una buena locura en el programa, la verdad. Niñas por arriba, niñas por abajo, una que se sube a la mesa, otra que se va al pasillo... y, mientras, todo un programa de radio funcionando. Pero sí, hemos tenido un programa de radio genial esta semana. En primer lugar hemos tenido con nosotros a Jesús Burgoa, que nos ha hablado de un libro estupendo: "El viaje de Kadir". Después hemos tenido la suertaza de tener en el estudio a dos creadores, a la ilustradora Saskia Huiskamp y al escritor IC Viro, con ellos hemos hablado de su nuevo libro: "El puente de Beringia". Con esta visita podríamos haber tenido un grandísimo programa, pero ya sabéis que siempre nos gusta dar un pasito más. Y esta semana el pasito ha sido de cine, hemos hablado de la Muestra Internacional de Cine Educativo (MICE Madrid) con su director, José María Jiménez. Un programa enorme, para disfrutar mucho y para seguir comprendiendo que en el mundo infantil siempre hay aventuras tremendas e increíbles.

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If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today we're looking at a video or excuse me, a photograph that was taken on film on avatar film. It's one of those Kodak films, there's portrait there's actor, I'm sure there's probably a whole bunch out there like Kodak gold or whatever the cheap stuff that used to get for your, your disposable camera used to be or your little point and shoot back in the 90s. But this was shot on acti I think it was one of the professional-grade films. I have not never known too much about film or film stocks or like the difference between slide film or was it Velvia or porch, or active. But I knew I got into acting because I liked that contrast II just had a crisp look to it and pulled out a lot of blues and a lot of greens that I had trouble getting in some of the other film stocks I was using, like, like I think if you use Fujifilm, you get a lot of all of the tones, that sort of thing. So I liked a lot of the crisp look that I got into color reproduction using this film stock. And this was back in, I think 2014 when reality when we were out at Loma lo like in Central Oregon, or kind of the central cascades of Oregon, maybe sort of north of Crater Lake, but a cool spot up there. And I just kind of like the silver lining of the clouds and the width of the light sort of diffused amongst this photo. It was kind of cool. But I think everything in this role turned out. Pretty interestingly, I think it was from a trip around the token e falls area, which will probably run through a few more photos up. 1:49 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there. So 360-degree photo work over the last couple of weeks has been cool. And I enjoyed it a lot. I liked doing the 360 stuff. I think back in June of 2018 we had done a bunch of podcasts about some of the 360 photography stuff that we were trying to do and some of the video stuff we were doing with the GoPro fusion at the time. And that was all cool and I liked that video a lot this time I was working with a Ricoh Theta zone. And I was going around to a few locations to try and get the photographs. Specifically, I think photographs are a lot in this circumstance, but not so many videos. But yeah, really interested in 360 photography, stuff that I was able, to edit together and capture during that time. So that was cool. But I went out to an area in, Central Oregon, that was pretty cool and went up on like a hillside to do some 360 work. And it's cool out there because you can see the topography of how the Great Basin was formed at the well I guess like during the whole era of the Pleistocene as it was for a long-standing period. Like a lake, it was just a big lake out there. And then as things started changing at the end of the Pleistocene, I think there were huge changes that ended the Great Basin stuff that ended a lot of the megafauna that was in the area. And that kind of changed the topography of the landscape over the last 10,000 years to be something much more of the high desert sagebrush Juniper tree exposed rock landscape that we see today and a lot less of the forested temperate kind of mountain climate that we have through the Cascades and three part of Oregon, I'm sure it was always more dry, given the rain, shatter the Cascade Mountains there. But I think for a long period, as according to signs posted on my drives, in areas where I go hiking sometimes but you know, like when you go up to someplace and it says, you know, this area so such and such time ago had these animals in it, where you see like giant beavers, or you see, like camels, or giant sloths, I guess, out of the area, too. There are all sorts of stuff that they had. That ended up being wiped out 100,000 years ago, 60,000 years ago, 210 20 10,000 years ago, or something like that. There are a lot of changes that happened throughout the Pleistocene, I guess, during what they call the quarternary period, a period of glaciations that the Earth has been involved in for the last 100,000 or 200, maybe million years. I'm not sure it's its last couple of 100,000 years we've been going in these cycles of glaciations, or you know, we're in an ice age period. So we go into an ice age like we have ice on the Earth right now. It'll be more ice at a point and then less ice at a point. More ice at a point less ice. So the point, I guess that's been going on for what they say somewhere around like 200,000 years, these 30,000-year periods of glaciation to nonglaciation, where like, I think we're coming, we're like on the far end of the Glacial Maximum now. So we had the, with the Glacial Maximum about like, what, 11,000 12,000 years ago? Or is that right? No, I must have been, like 15 20,000 years ago that we are the maximum, then it started receding. I suppose. That's when we were able to know that does it make sense we had like the land bridge, like the Beringia stuff where people got over that was probably 15 to 20,000. sea levels were low, or they were like, 400 feet, they squared along the coastlines. They came over through the land. So that was a pretty long ago. Why anyway, at some point, like I was there, like I'm gonna figure out Wait, let me remember. Let me think back to 15,000 years ago, where was I? Yeah, I wasn't here. So I don't know what happened. But apparently, there's been some recorded evidence that I was learning about. And I think it's like Montverde down in Chile. And that's a location where I think they carbon dated something to 15,000 years old, like human remains, the human element remains, there's, there's like a few locations here in Oregon, where they I guess, have evidence of the Clovis people that sort of around like the 1112 13,000 year mark. And then there's other evidence of things that are I don't know within like it's time it's like anything from like 7500 years to 15,000 years ago seems to all kind of be in flux have a date, because there's not many, 6:47 not many perfect ways to date that. And if it's a cultural artifact, like, an arrowhead, or a pot shard, or a scraper, there's some indication of how those things are going to be created, or how those artifacts are going to be created and how there's are going to remain like Folsom points or Clovis points are pretty distinct from each other, but they're not culturally distinct from each other. So it could be like a variation of many different tribes and languages and peoples. All well unrelated to each other but related with a similar vein of technology for a few 1000 years of you know, their tool use shape was kind of similar because they're all kind of from a similar descendency. But I think when you get like more than 100 miles away, your language is separate over like a couple of generations, you just got to speak different languages. But man wild stuff anyway. So I don't remember where we started with this. But I was out in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Great Basin, I went up on a hillside and public land and I was doing some 360 photography work with the Ricoh zeta Oh, Ricoh Theta zone. That's what it is. And yeah, I was capturing some stuff on a hillside really beautiful areas up there where those ridges kind of drop in and out. And so it's cool when you get like up to a higher elevation, you can kind of see the pockets of where these lakes and pools of water and kind of sat and rested for what seems like I think I was saying something about recording some 360 photographs up on some public land in the high desert, in the Lake County in Great Basin area of Eastern Oregon, beautiful spot over there. I enjoy it. And yeah, it was awesome to use the Ricoh Theta zone to be capturing some images up in that area, it's cool when you're at a higher elevation. And with a 360 camera, you can kind of it provides a little bit of a different perspective is seems silly to see like wider, but when you re when you kind of replay those images, and you're able to sort of look around in the context of what's the left and to the right of you, you're kind of able to put together the context of the landscape a little better, a little faster than you could if you just had a series of individual photographs that had segments of the wider landscape captured in it. So it's cool at that higher elevation, you can you can kind of look down to areas that we had been hiking around earlier in the day through some of the ridges and troughs that would be over in that area. And you can look down you know, it's like 500 feet down in elevation to what we thought was kind of the mountain top pass and then pass that as another maybe 1000 foot or a couple of 100-foot drop in elevation as it goes down toward the lake basin area. So all that was pretty cool. And what was also cool about it is just sort of visualizing how populated that area had been in the past, I think, you know before the Western expansion of the United States and as 1000s of years passed by, and This region of land and the Northwest that had been populated and that region specifically been populated by nomadic tribes that had been able to travel and subsist off of the wild game that was there, I think a lot of like antelope and deer, and it looks like bighorn sheep by some of their planning some kind of sheep, but it looks like that from some of their, their pictographs and petroglyphs information that they left then the dynamics of some of those populations of animals have changed in the time. Now given like modern day, I don't know, I don't know if we're gonna see a lot of sheep out there in Lake County. But there's one drawn on a rock out there. So they must have been trying to look for it. There's a lot of them in the southwest as he moved into the I think the Mohawk tribes. For him, that's more of a 3000 to 25 2000. I don't know, it's probably bad. It was 3600 years ago, so everything but 100 years ago I think it was like Captain jack over there Captain jack's stronghold for the Murdoch Indian Reservation area. That was like in the Indian Wars of the 1850s. So the last to tell them but yeah, there's some information about some of the pipe, the Piute Indians, I think the Northern piute that were in that area of Southern southeastern Oregon, Nevada, then into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico if I kind of understood, right, but I know there's some fluctuations in there. And differences in timing and stuff. But yeah, dollar, is pretty cool stuff. 11:35 It was, it was awesome to get out there, it was cool to get out and kind of walk around in some areas of some public land, where we still have some access and still get out to try and do some photography stuff, even in this period where you're supposed to stay home and there's a lockdown it was, it was cool to kind of get out and try to do some exploring and some social distance conscious. I mean, that's fine with me, I don't, I don't have to be around a lot of people, it's better to do landscape wildlife photography work while you're sort of in some type of isolation. I'm sure like a lot of hunters are kind of considering something like that to you know, hunters, fishermen, people like hiking or you know, a lot of those solo activities, it's cool that you know, this kind of this time, sort of is provided a little bit of a reset for probably a lot of people out there to have a bit more time to invest in some of the things that they'd want to, I suppose a lot of folks are probably stuck more in their local area but it's a great time too, to get to invest in some things that seem more important to you. So that's what I've been trying to do. I hope you guys are doing well. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more at Billy Newman's photo calm I'll be doing a ton of updates over there. The airplane is taking off. Sounds like prop plans are about to fly over my head. It's like that scene in North by Northwest or Cary Grant starts getting run down by that biplane. That'd be scary. 13:04 So that's that in the future. You can check out more information at Billy Newman's photo comm 13:14 you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support if you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo and I'm happy with the seminar so far I've been looking at trying to pick up a battery grip for it you know I did a wedding this weekend which is great shooting a wedding and those are really fun events to go through and a seven I did a pretty good job in almost every capacity I love the low light of it. The way the sensor works is great and super high quality all of those things fit the mark for what I need, but it was interesting I was noticing that in low life the autofocus for that camera doesn't function in a way that I need it to or I'm missing some stuff that I want and that's where I see the real benefit and in some of the older systems I mean even like Can't I contrast base autofocus systems that were in the Nikon or Canon systems for the last like 15 or 20 years are superior to what I'm seeing in some of the expression of what the early Sony autofocus stuff can do. You know it's like in focus, right you're looking at a frame it's in focus your autofocus point is on the thing. It's a contrast point, there's plenty of light on it. You go to auto focus and then your lens just spins out and it does not for like four seconds just spins out to infinity and to see just blurriness you lose the moment completely it comes kind of back in maybe it finally grabs focus and then you take the picture but you kind of miss everything or you just I don't know like there's a lot of times where you're waiting for the camera to focus who really should just be like pull up to your eye it sees focus hit it grab it click it go I'm having a harder time with that than what I thought I might and I think some of that could be because of the lack of the phase detection autofocus system that like the the newer a seven r two has the a seven to a seven as to a nine or a nine right yeah that's a that's a Sony one and like a lot of the new Canon cameras they have this phase detection system is supposed to be some better multiplexing system of finding autofocus but there used to be systems that worked pretty good like my d3 at 53 autofocus points and they can pull up I think I don't know something like that but you know, plenty autofocus points and they can grab your autofocus point even in pretty low light they could kind of get oh that's at infinity or that's pretty close to right next to me so I'll stay there so it's interesting kind of learning how that behaves. But overall the photos from the wedding came out really well a lot of this stuff worked out very nicely I've been really happy with it but another thing that I noticed is with running was running a camera as a device like more like an iPad or like more like your phone you know where it's got it's got some screen on a lot of the time it's got processing stuff going on it's moving gigabytes and gigabytes of data to a card it's just drawing from the battery almost constantly I mean like during a wedding I guess to kind of think of power consumption like this I wrote 48 gigabytes of data to SD cards and so that's going to take some amount of battery energy you know stored energy to write all that data to a card and so in that capacity I kind of do get that it would take a good bit of power to write that much information down to capture it and then write that much information if you think about everything that has to do so in that way and then run a screen and you know run the processing and run it visually and all that so I kind of forgive it and it capacity but what I noticed though is that I really did go through a couple batteries shooting and just sort of a regular fashion at this wedding for for most of the day is like a full day shooting but it really was burning through those batteries pretty quickly like you look at it like oh Whoa, I just I just use like 10% in a pretty short amount of time. And so with that, I was kind of thinking and as it's been the plan for a long time for just I don't know the kind of like a best use case for professionalism what I want to do is get the battery grip that goes in accompaniment with the seminar and the battery grip I think it's it's you know it's like a Sony piece that fits yeah I haven't seen a battery grip before but you know the one where you can throw the two camera batteries into the battery grip you can get an extended amount of life from your camera that way and you get like the portraits or what is it like the vertical shutter release? You know so you can flip the camera up and shoot in portrait mode and try yeah like the size of it the look of it, it'll be an awesome kind of compact professional 18:14 What is it not SLR I keep wanting to say professional SLR but it's an Interland interchangeable lens camera that's rolling right off my tongue isn't it so yeah, it's gonna be interesting I want to go for the battery grip though and I think that could kind of solve some of the problems that I'm having with battery usage issues of the camera kind of coming up dad after two or three hours or whatever it is? So I don't know I've heard plenty of other people about wedding photography kind of complain or grass a little bit about some of the features that are associated or some of the things that make the workflow of a wedding work of a wedding shoot go by a little bit more difficulty with a featured camera like the seminar, I've heard of people that are really into it, too. So you know, it seems like a couple of different things. But low light autofocus is an issue on that camera, I can tell that some stuff doesn't do now. So with that, and with the concept of like what I like to shoot or you know, like, kind of still moving things or landscapes, low light firearm stuff, if I try and get into that more, I wouldn't run into that same kind of problem with as much repetition because you know, you're not shooting a high volume of frames, you're not shooting an event based situation. So it's kind of a different sort of scenario and you don't seem to you're you're wanting to manually focus and take time and take multiple frames of the same thing. And in some of those, some of those more set up Fine Art situations or landscape situations like you're trying to take your time and those squares in with event and wedding photography, that kind of process. It's just it's really fast. You're trying to move different moving elements into different places and get photographs of You're just doing a lot all at one time over a short amount of length of the amount of time that the, you know the event. So not enough is all right. I did great and had a great time at the wedding. How about you are, you know, savage people out of it your food, got a bunch of great photos, brought them home started processing them. That's a really interesting part of me. I've gone through like a big batch of photos and I've gotten kind of used to that over time of getting through a big batch of photos, but it is always sort of overwhelming when you're like wow, that's a lot. That's like a whole big data project I got to go through now again, you don't realize how much it takes to get through a bunch of stuff when you finish it. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, good links to other outbound sources, some links to books, and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back end. 21:08 Thank you

On this episode, I chat with Dr. Bathsheba Demuth. Bathsheba is the Dean's Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. We chat about her multiple prize-winning first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Floating Coast is required reading for anyone who is interested in the intersection of political systems and the environment – which everyone should be because that intersection is where we find and do conservation. Bathsheba is currently working on a book about the environmental pasts of the Yukon River. Thank you to everyone for joining us on this show!

Camels, short-faced bear, lions. These animals aren't typically associated with the Yukon, but they all lived and died here at some point, leaving their bones as evidence. Paleontologist Grant Zazula tells us what else roamed here and what their ancient fossils reveal about how this part of the world looked not so long ago.  This episode is sponsored by Air North, Yukon's Airline.

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Professor Jennifer Raff, a longtime friend of the show, returns to discuss her work on the genetic ancestry of America's Indigenous peoples. We talk about Beringia, waves of migration, the troublesome relationship between science and Indigenous peoples, and her fantastic new book, Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, which is available now.Get Origin here: https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/jennifer-raff/origin/9781538749715/ Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWverge Listen to new episodes 1 week early, to exclusive seasons 1 and 2, and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/tidesofhistory.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sign up for our mailing list! We also have t-shirts and mugs with our logo! Further reading: Million-year-old mammoth genomes shatter record for oldest ancient DNA Mammoth Genome Project (with pictures of cave art and ancient carvings of mammoths) The most famous cave painting of a mammoth, from a cave in France: Sivatherium: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. It's the last Monday of 2021, which means the very last extinction event episode. There've been way more extinction events in earth's long history than the five we've covered this year, and not all of the extinction events I chose to highlight were even necessarily the biggest. This one, for instance. You may have noticed a pattern when I talk about ice age megafauna. So many animals went extinct about 11,000 years ago. That's this week's topic, the end-Pleistocene extinction event. The Pleistocene is often called the ice age, or ice ages since it consisted of multiple glaciation periods separated by warmer times when the glaciers would retreat for a while. It started roughly 2.6 million years ago and is considered to have ended 11,700 years ago. Keep in mind, as always, that these dates are just a shorthand to help scientists refer to changes in earth's history. There was no one day where the sun rose and everything had abruptly changed from one era to another. The changes took place over a long time, hundreds of thousands of years, with different parts of the world changing more quickly or slowly than others depending on local conditions. At the beginning of the Pleistocene, the world's continents were roughly in their present positions. Two continental plates in what is now Central America collided very slowly over millions of years, which caused the land to buckle up and magma to erupt through the earth's crust as volcanoes. The volcanoes created islands in the Central American Seaway, a section of ocean between North and South America that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By around 5 to 10 million years ago, the volcanoes and land continued to be pushed up, and sediment from rivers filled in between them, until finally instead of islands there was actual land that connected North and South America. That land is called the Isthmus of Panama and it allowed the great American interchange where animals from North America could cross into South America, and vice versa, but that's a topic for another episode. Another result of the Isthmus of Panama's formation is that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were more separated. Instead of ocean currents circulating between North and South America, they were cut off and new currents formed. Ocean currents help distribute warm water to colder areas and cold water to warmer areas, which affects air and land temperatures too. Around 2.5 million years ago, the ocean current changes had changed the entire overall temperature of the earth, making it much cooler overall. That wasn't the only cause of the ice ages, but it was a major factor. The earth gradually became cooler and dryer, a process that had already started due to other causes and was accelerated by the ocean current changes. As the global temperature dropped, more and more water was locked up in huge glaciers called ice sheets, at first around the poles and then farther south. This meant sea levels dropped a lot. North America was connected to Asia by a stretch of grassland steppe called Beringia that had formerly been submerged. As the temperatures dropped and the climate changed, animals and plants had to adapt. The ancestors of modern elephants had lived in Africa for millions of years, but they started migrating to other parts of the world around 3 million years ago. Because they were already big, they were good at retaining heat in their bodies and became quite successful as the climate grew cooler and cooler. They evolved long hair to stay even warmer and spread throughout much o...

David Meltzer is Professor of Prehistory at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, an archeologist who has conducted research throughout North America, and the author of over 200 scientific studies, and 10 books, including First Peoples In A New World. His primary interest is the first peopling of the continent — a subject that, for whatever reason, has always captivated us. It's not just the idea of Asiatic people venturing across Beringia and into an unpeopled world, which is interesting enough on its own, but it's the world they entered into — an ice age landscape full of now extinct animals, like elephantine mammoths, deadly saber tooth cats, giant short faced bears, enormous ground sloths, and gargantuan primitive bison. But what do we really know about these so called “paleo-indian” peoples and their migration here? And what role, if any, might they have played in the extinction of so much of the ice age megafauna they encountered — and in many cases, hunted? Today we'll get the big picture overview of what we know about the first peopling of North and South America and what the world was like just 15,000 years ago. It might sound like a long time, but in the scheme of human history, it's really quite recent. So recent in fact, that conversations like this leave us feeling like that world is almost within reach. It's exciting and energizing to imagine that world, in all its contrast to the modern one we find ourselves in today. And while we're now safer, more affluent, and less inclined to be eaten, there's a feeling we can't shake that there was also something essential about that time that's now missing. Perhaps that's naive nostalgia talking, but we're gonna indulge it, just for today. View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/109

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Today we're gonna be talking a little bit about I think some of the 360 footers that I've been shooting at the waterfalls, some of the stuff up in the Mackenzie wilderness area, and some of it over like the three sisters wilderness area, so and then there's also cash budget stuff, we did a bunch of stuff on the coast, we did a bunch of stuff on hikes on bike rides, we had a friend with a motorcycle, drive it up a trail, that was cool. We shot over to Smith rock up to a couple of spots over in the high desert area, Eastern Oregon. Today, though, just for a minute, we're talking about some of the stuff that we did over proxy files, proxy files is a nice spot in Oregon, definitely a hiking destination that should be at the top of a lot of people's lists, especially for people that live I guess in the Willamette Valley area where you can get up on highway 126 and head out toward or if you're in the band area, and you want to come up that other way. But then you go up away up the 126, which is the main highway now. And then you take you take a little road that cuts off and that's the old road. I guess that used to be the old path that went overall you know, the mountain range there over the Cascades and then up on over to the part of Eastern Oregon, I guess we continued. But as you come up over the past there, there's a couple of cool lookouts up toward the top, but a little lower down as you're kind of, you're kind of starting your way up. There's a pull-out for proxy falls, and it's a really interesting waterfall. I think it's one of the taller waterfalls in Oregon. I think that watts and falls might be the tallest waterfall, which we also went to just a couple of days ago and I'll talk about that in the next couple of days on this. This flash briefing to the proxy false was beautiful. It was a tall waterfall, the way that it kind of cascades down and sort of blows up mist and creates kind of this mossy I guess kind of rain for his temperament. Or what would it be like oh, we're like a rain forest by him? So that sort of environment right around the place where the waterfall kind of crashes down all at one spot. But we took this 360 camera in there and recorded a bunch of footage and it has come out interesting. I love that sort of stuff. So it's really fun getting over there. 2:27 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. 360-degree photo work over the last couple of weeks which has been cool and I've enjoyed it a lot. I liked doing the 360 stuff I think back in June of 2018 we had done a bunch of podcasts about some of the 360 photography stuff that we were trying to do some of the video stuff we were doing with the GoPro Fusion at the time. And that was all cool and I liked that video a lot this time I was working with a Ricoh Theta zone. And I was going around to a few locations to try and get the photographs. Specifically, I think photographs a lot in this circumstance not so many videos. But yeah, really interested in the 360 photography stuff that I was able, to edit together and to capture during that time. So that was cool. But I went out to an area in instead of Central Oregon, that was pretty cool and went up on like a hillside to do some 360 work. And it's cool out there because you can see the topography of how the Great Basin was formed at the wall I guess like during the whole era of the Pleistocene as it was for a long-standing period. Like a lake is just a big lake out there. And then as things started changing at the end of the place to see anything there were huge changes that ended the Great Basin stuff that ended a lot of the megafauna that was in the area. And that kind of changed the topography of the landscape over the last 10,000 years to be something much more of the high desert sagebrush Juniper tree exposed rock landscape that we see today and a lot less of the forested temperate kind of mountain climate that we have through the Cascades and part Oregon I'm sure it was always drier given the rain shatters the Cascade Mountains there but I think that for a long time as according to signs posted on my drives in areas where I go hiking sometimes but you know like when you go up to someplace and it says you know this area so such and such time ago had these animals in it where you see like giant beavers or you see like camels or giant sloths, I guess they added the area to there's all sorts of stuff that they had. That ended up being wiped out 100,000 years ago, 60,000 years ago, too, what, 1020 10,000 years ago, something like that. There's a lot of changes that happened throughout the Pleistocene, I guess during what they call the quarternary period, a period of glaciations that the Earth has been involved in for the last 100,000 or 200, maybe million years. I'm not sure it's last couple 100,000 years we've been going in these cycles of glaciation. So you know, we're in an ice age period. So we go into an ice age like we have ice on the Earth right now. It'll be more ice at a point and then less ice at a point. More is at a pointless I said a point, I guess it's been going on for what they say somewhere around like 200,000 years, these 30,000 year periods of glaciation to non-glaciation, where like, I think we're coming, we're like on the far end of the Glacial Maximum now. So we had the, with the Glacial Maximum about like, what, 11,000 12,000 years ago? Or is that right? No, it must have been, like, 15 20,000 years ago that we're at the maximum, then it started receding. I suppose. That's when we were able to No, that doesn't make sense. We had like the landbridge, like the Beringia stuff where people got over that was probably 15 to 20,000. sea levels were low, or they were like 400 feet squared along the coastlines that came over through the land. So that was all pretty long ago. Well, anyway, at some point, like I was there like I'm gonna figure out Wait, let me remember. Let me think back to 15,000 years ago, where was I? Yeah, I wasn't here. So I don't know what happened. But apparently, there's been some recorded evidence that I was learned about, and I think it's like Montverde down in Chile. And that's a location where I think they carbon-dated something to 15,000 years old, like human remains, the human element remains, there's, there's like a few locations here in Oregon, where they, I guess, have evidence of the Clovis people that sort of around like the 1112 13,000 year mark. And then there's other evidence of things that are I don't know within like it's time it's like anything from like 7500 years to 15,000 years ago seems to all kind of be in flux have a date, because there's not many, 7:25 not many perfect ways to date that. And if it's a cultural artifact, like a, an arrowhead, or a pot shard, or a scraper, there's some indication of how those things are going to be created or how those artifacts are going to be created and how there's going to remain like Folsom points or Clovis points are pretty distinct from each other, but they're not culturally distinct from each other. So it could be like a variation of many different tribes and languages and peoples all well unrelated to each other but related with a similar vein of technology for a few 1000 years of you know, their tool use shape was kind of similar because they're all kind of from a similar descendency but I think when you get like more than 100 miles away, your language is separate over like a couple of generations. You just got to speak different languages. But man wild stuff anyway, so I don't remember where we started with this. But I was out in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Great Basin, I went up on a hillside and public land and I was doing some 360 photography work with the Ricoh zeta Oh, Ricoh Theta zone. That's what it is. And yeah, I was capturing some stuff on a hillside really beautiful areas up there where those ridges kind of drop in and out. And so it's cool when you get like up to a higher elevation, you can kind of see the pockets of where these lakes and pools of water and kind of sat and rested for what seems like I think I was saying something about recording some 360 photographs up on some public land in the high desert, in the Lake County in Great Basin area of Eastern Oregon. beautiful spot over there. I enjoy it. And yeah, it was awesome to use the Ricoh Theta zone to be capturing some images up in that area, it's cool when you're at a higher elevation. And with a 360 camera, you can kind of it provides a little bit of a different perspective, it seems silly to see like wider, but when you re when you kind of replay those images, and you're able to sort of look around in the context of what's the left hand to the right of you, you're kind of able to put together the context of the landscape a little better, a little faster than you could if you just had a series of individual photographs that had segments of the wider landscape captured in it so it's cool at that higher elevation. You can kind of look down to areas that we had been hiking around earlier in the day through Some of the ridges and troughs that would be over in that area, and you can look down, you know, it's like 500 feet down in elevation to what we thought was kind of the mountain top pass and then pass that as another maybe 1000 foot or a couple of 100-foot drop in elevation as it goes down toward the lake basin area. So all that was pretty cool. And what was also cool about it is just sort of visualizing how populated that area had been in the past, I think, you know, before the Western expansion of the United States, and as 1000s of years passed by in this region of land in the northwest, it had been populated in that region specifically been populated by nomadic tribes that had been able to travel and subsist off of the wild game that was there, I think a lot of like antelope and deer, and it looks like bighorn sheep by some of their planning some kind of sheep, but it looks like that from some of their, their pictographs and petroglyphs information that they left then the dynamics of some of those populations of animals have changed in the time. Now given like modern-day, I don't know, I don't know if we're gonna see a lot of sheep out there in Lake County. But there's one drawn on a rock out there. So they must have been trying to look for it. There's a lot of them in the southwest. Is he moving into the I think the Mohawk tribes. For them, that's more of a 3000 to 25 2000. I don't know, it's probably bad. It was 3600 years ago, sort of a thing. But or 100 years ago I think it was like Captain jack over there Captain jack stronghold for the Murdoch Indian Reservation area. That was like in the Indian Wars of the 1850s. So they allowed us to tell them, but yeah, there's some information about some of the 11:52 pirate, the pirate Indians, I think the Northern Piute there were in that area of Southern southeastern Oregon, Nevada, then into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico if I kind of understood, right, but I know there are some fluctuations in there. And differences and timing and stuff. But yeah, dollar, pretty cool stuff. It was really, it was awesome to get out there. It's, it's cool to get out and kind of walk around in scenarios of some public land, where we still have some access and still get out to try and do some photography stuff. Even in this period where you're supposed to stay home and there's a lockdown it was, it was cool to kind of get out and try and do some exploring and some social distance consciousness. I mean, that's fine with me, I don't, I don't have to be around a lot of people, it's better to do landscape wildlife photography worked while you're sort of in some type of isolation, I'm sure like a lot of hunters are kind of considering something like that to you know, hunters, fishermen, people like hiking or you know, a lot of those solo activities, it's cool that you know, this kind of this time, sort of is provided a little bit of a reset for probably a lot of people out there to have a bit more time to invest in some of the things that they'd want to, I suppose a lot of folks are probably stuck more in their local area but it's a great time too, to get to invest in some things that seem more important to you. So that's what I've been trying to do. I hope you guys are doing well. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more at Billy Newman photo comm I've been doing a ton of updates over there. It's an airplane taking off. Sounds like prop plans about to fly over my head. It's like that scene in North by Northwest. Cary Grant starts getting run down by that biplane. That'd be scary. So that's that in the future. You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward-slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or if you're more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com Ford slash Billy Newman photo. 14:29 I bought a domain name nightscape podcast calm and so I'm trying to build a pretty simple WordPress site that can host a lot of the information about that podcast about that project as a whole. So it'll be pretty basic and it's not supposed to be something that's hugely complicated by any means. But I'm interested in you know, just trying to try to make some different graphics and make some explanation of the podcast and sort of how it works just to kind of differentiate it a little bit. And so it's just like a side project at all. IBM trying to put it together. But I've been trying to find out some ways to do that more easily. So I've already built about three or four pretty usable WordPress websites. And what I was hoping to do is trying to try to take a lot of that, that work that I had already done, and then migrate that over to this new nightscape podcast website that I'm trying to put together, along with another site that I'm trying to put together get together. I'll probably talk about that in the next podcast. But through this nightscape podcast website, what I was hoping to do was take a lot of the way that I've customized the theme that I'm using, and a lot of like the Page Layout stuff that I've already put together for let's see my Billy Newman photo website. And I want to try and find a way to migrate that over to this night sky site, and then strip out the parts that won't be the same, you know, I'll replace the graphics replace a lot of the layout stuff in a way that would be unique and bespoke to the way that I want this nightscape podcast website to go. But it's a little better than ours, it's a lot less work, it saved me a ton of time so that I don't have to go back through and make customizations to each of them, the fields associated with the site in a way that would be like brand new to it. So. So I'm trying to learn about that a little bit. What I've been trying to do is find out, I guess, different ways to do that. So one thing that I ran into, while I was trying to do a bunch of this troubleshooting on my site over the last couple of weeks, was that I'm really in need of making backups of my WordPress sites. And so what I went through and did is I made sure there's ways within WordPress to do this, but I was using a plugin. That's and you should let me know if anybody's listening out there. And they've had experience doing backups at their WordPress site, you should let me know it was the most effective there's, there's like the cPanel backup that I've made from the server side where I backed up the files that were associated with the website. And so hopefully that can be restored in a way that'd be useful. But there are also some complications that I think I've run into with that. And it wasn't as user-friendly as I wanted it to be. And the restore points, I don't know, it didn't feel like it worked for me as well as I had hoped it would. But it did come in use, it was very useful for me to do that when I did run into problems, and I wasn't able to access the site. So I'm glad I had those backups of the cPanel. But I do still have access to the WordPress dashboard of my website, what I'm hoping to do is use this plug-in system that I found. And I'm sure like a million other people according to what it said, I have found it also. But I'm using this plugin called Updraft Plus, to try and make to try and make backups of my WordPress pages. So I went through and made backups of each of the WordPress websites that I've created so far. And first, that was the Billy Newman photo.com website. And then in addition to that, there was golden hour wedding calm. So I made backups of both of those. And then there are another two websites that I'm still kind of working on. And I wanted to want to try and make those new. But I did make backups of those also. And I was able to save those on my server. But I was also able to download those to my local drive and put those on an external hard drive. And the great thing is, is that I can version those backups. So when I make adjustments, or when I make updates to my site, and I want to make another backup of it, it'll make I can make a backup, and then I can download that. And that'll be like the, you know, this was in January 2019. But with all these extra pieces of content, and with all these extra additions to the site, this will be the backup I make in February 2019, something like that. What I'm trying to figure out those. And I think what I've discovered is that what I want to do is make a backup of my WordPress site, let's say in this case, that Billy Newman photo comm back up, and I want to use that to clone and then migrate that over to the night sky podcast.com website. And so I think I found a way to do that even within Updraft Plus now the Updraft Plus plugin offers a premium service where you can purchase the ability to do a database migration for I think, $30, it's not $30 per site, but I think it's $30 for the plugin, and then you get support from that plugin developer for some time, I think it's like six months on the low end. And then if you need support for a longer amount of time, I think it's more money than that. There are probably some caveats to it. But that is an option that I'm trying to explore right now as if I'd want to go through that process of using the Updraft Plus plugin to do a migration on my site where I can bring in a lot of the theme customizations, the theme itself and the, I guess, the database with the updated database over to the night sky podcast website. And it could be an easy sort of one-click solution for it. But I'm also trying to look around and see if there are other ways for me to do an import for a clone of the website and the website data so that I can bring in a lot of the information but maybe leave out a lot of pieces that I won't need because I'm not trying to make an end an exact duplicate or an exact copy, I'm just trying to bring over certain elements that would be that have already been adjusted in a way that I don't want to do the work over for. So if I could just kind of bring in this draft of the website version, that's almost everything complete in the way that I want. And then delete the content that was on the blog, delete the pieces that were you know, over in this section of the site, rewrite and about page and a couple of paragraphs over here, recreate some graphics, and then I would have what would seem like a familiar site that would be on-brand. But it would also be, you know, a new site that would have a lot of new content on it, and it would just kind of remain the way that I wanted it to. So that's sort of the hope that I'm trying to go for. And I guess that the Updraft Plus plugin creates XML files for you to use. And 20:50 I don't know how it works. But I think if you break open the file that you downloaded, you can go through and then and then there's an alternate way of making an upload for that sort of stuff. But I guess the problem is, is like the database. So if you're migrating a site, it's expecting all those domain names to be what they had been in the past and not migrated, or not a set of new links that have these new domain names, everything is going to link back to another site, that it's not, it's not at so the database, I was just not going to make sense. And I think that's what this migration tool is supposed to help you do. So I'm looking into that. And I'm hopeful that I can kind of put that together pretty quickly. I'm also trying to be conscious of my time a little bit too so that I don't spend a huge amount of time and development trying to figure out you know, how to how to go through and fix a bunch of errors that might be created if I tried to do a restore of a backup or a clone of my other site and try and migrate that over to this new domain. I'm trying to figure out a way where I don't have to worry about that all that much, but I'm still gonna do some more research. It's gonna be an ongoing project, an ongoing project, and I will update you in this podcast on my progress. That's what I figured. So I'm gonna do that with another site too. I think I might have mentioned yesterday that we're starting the golden hour experience podcast. And we've also started the golden hour experience.com website. And so I'm going to try and go through the same process over on that site. So I can import a bunch of the settings that I have from golden hour wedding calm and try and put it together in a way so that I get to save a bunch of time and not have to redevelop a WordPress site from scratch again. So that's it and it could work it seems like if I pay just a little bit of money, I can make it work, which might make it worth it. I figured the other news that I was going to get to was some stuff about ebooks. I'm sure you're excited now. Thanks for listening to all this. Thanks for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman's photo comm you knew things up there some stuff on the homepage, good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo calm. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back end

In this part of our biography podcast, find out about the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, whom Christopher Columbus met. We will first find out who the ancestors of these Indigenous Peoples were. Then, we will proceed to find out how these Indigenous People lived. Read our blog post Would you rather read about the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas? Read it here: 1. The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser - https://wisuru.com/history/the-indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas/ 2. The Caribs and the Arawaks. If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser - https://wisuru.com/history/caribs-and-arawaks/ Summary The first humans came to the Americas through the Bering bridge, which is also known as Beringia. Since the global temperature at that time was 8°C lower [Citation 1] than it is today, and a lot of water was in the form of ice, Beringia was not covered by water. So, people came to this Beringia, 24,000 years ago [Citation 2] & [Citation 3], because it offered them better chances of survival [citation 4]. They stayed there for around 10,000 years or lesser and then moved to the Americas [Citation 5]. These people were the ancestors of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Caribbean Islands Two Indigenous Peoples lived in the Caribbean during the time of Columbus' arrival. They were the Lokono and the Kalinaga. Lokono [Citation 6] Friendly people who loved peace Lived by fishing, hunting, and farming Each man had around two to three wives Cacique, the leader, had around 30 wives They lived in big houses. Around 100 people lived in each house Had weapons like poisoned arrows, spears with fish hooks on one end Kalinaga [Citation 7] Fierce people who loved war and fighting Lived by fishing, hunting, and farming Men lived together in one big house where they trained Women lived in many smaller houses Trained their children from a very early age for warfare Had weapons like poisoned arrows, burning arrows, etc. When Christopher Columbus first came to the Caribbean, he met the Lokono. Then, he sailed further south and met the Kalinaga. He called the Lokono as Arawaks and Kalinaga as Caribs. The Caribs had a custom of eating human flesh to acquire the characteristics of the person who died. It was a ritual for them. They used this ritual before going to a battle and when they trained children. But they did not eat human flesh like for the taste or pleasure of it. But Columbus used their custom to spread the rumor that they were cannibals. So, he was able to acquire Queen Isabella's permission to capture the Caribs. Christopher Columbus used the queen's permission as an excuse to capture Caribs and Arawaks and use them as slaves. In the years that followed, most of the Caribs and Arawaks died not only due to abuse and inhuman working conditions, but also due to the diseases brought by the Spanish. Citations https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ice-age-climate-was-cooler-than-expected/46613272 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237529882_Beringian_Standstill_and_Spread_of_Native_American http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169486 https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/scott-elias_da6e306a-f31c-40ad-9ea8-89aa74bba587.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/coopers-landing-idaho-site-americas-oldest https://carriacou.biz/arawaks-amerindians/ https://prezi.com/wxjixtonjql5/the-kalinagos/ Resources A map of Beringia - https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/sunken-bridge-size-continent/ Donation link Do you like our work and want to donate to us? You can do so by using this Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/wisuru Contact me Have some suggestions to share with us? Just tweet to us using our Twitter link: https://twitter.com/WisuruBiography

We have a sinking feeling about this installment of Disinformed... but that's only natural. Michael is taking us on an exploratory trek back in time to discover humanity's many-limbed lemur hermaphroditic progenitors and the lost continent that spawned them. What could possibly go wrong? Headline: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/715157615811409683 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel https://allthatsinteresting.com/lemuria-continent https://www.grunge.com/411270/the-untold-truth-of-lemuria-the-atlantis-of-the-pacific/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_races https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/a-geologists-dream-the-lost-continent-of-lemuria/https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-lemuria-the-lost-con-1624866897  Outro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this month, the University of Alaska Fairbanks bestowed on author Dan O’Neill an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. I talk with Dan about his background and his published works, most famously The Firecracker Boys, but also The Last Giant of Beringia, A Land Gone Lonesome and the children’s book Stubborn Gal.

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Bathsheba Demuth reads from and discusses her book "Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait," a comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. These frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? She will give a virtual talk "The Reindeer at the End of the World" on May 4, 2021. Register: https://ohc.uoregon.edu

Today on the History Explained Simply Podcast we talk about... - The first humans - Homo sapiens - Neanderthals - Denisovans - Homo floresiensis - The land bridge, Beringia

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Saates kõneldakse muljetest Beringia Artktika mängudelt, unikaalselt arktiliste rahvaste kokkutulekult, mida Tšuktšimaal on korraldatud ligi kakskümmend aastat. Ligi pooletuhande osalisega kokkutulekekul võisteldi põhjala rahvaste traditsioonilistel võistlusaladel, lauldi, tantsiti ja maitsti kohalikke roogasid.

This week we're on the cutting edge of science, learning about the brand new genetic study of dire wolves that rearranges everything we know about the dire wolf and other canids! Also, a bonus turtle update. Further reading: Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, Genetic Clues Reveal An artist's rendition of dire wolves and grey wolves fighting over a bison carcass (art by Mauricio Anton): The pig-nosed face of the Hoan Kiem turtle, AKA Yangtze giant softshell turtle, AKA Swinhoe's softshell turtle: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. You may have heard the news this past week about the new study about dire wolves. I thought it would make a great topic for an episode, and we’ll also have a quick update about a rare turtle that’s been in the news lately too. Dire wolves show up pretty often in movies and TV shows and video games and books, because as far as anyone knew until very recently, the dire wolf was an extra big wolf that lived in North America during the Pleistocene until it went extinct around 13,000 years ago. Researchers assumed it was a close cousin of the modern grey wolf. Well, in a brand new study published in Nature literally less than a week ago as this episode goes live, we now have results of a genetic study of dire wolf remains. The results give us surprising new information not just about the dire wolf, but about many other canids. The study started in 2016, when an archaeologist, Angela Perri, who specializes in the history of human and animal interactions, wanted to learn more about the dire wolf. She went around the United States to visit university collections and museums with dire wolf remains, and took the samples she collected to geneticist Kieren Mitchell. Perri, Mitchell, and their team managed to sequence DNA from five dire wolves that lived between 50,000 and 13,000 years ago. Then the team compared the dire wolf genome to those of other canids, including the grey wolf and coyote, two species of African wolf, two species of jackal, and the dhole, among others. To their surprise, the dire wolf’s closest relation wasn’t the grey wolf. It was the jackals, both from Africa, but even they weren’t very closely related. It turns out that 5.7 million years ago, the shared ancestor of dire wolves and many other canids lived in Eurasia. At this point sea levels were low enough that the Bering land bridge, also called Beringia, connected the very eastern part of Asia to the very western part of North America. One population of this canid migrated into North America while the rest of the population stayed in Asia. The two populations evolved separately until the North America population developed into what we now call dire wolves. Meanwhile, the Eurasian population developed into many of the modern species we know today, and eventually migrated into North America too. By the time the gray wolf populated North America, the dire wolf was so distantly related to it that even when their territories overlapped, they avoided each other and didn’t interbreed. We’ve talked about canids in many previous episodes, including how readily they interbreed with each other, so for the dire wolf to remain genetically isolated, it was obviously not closely related at all to other canids at this point. The dire wolf looked a lot like a grey wolf, but researchers now think that was due more to convergent evolution than to its relationship with wolves. Both lived in the same habitats: plains, grasslands, and forests. The dire wolf was slightly taller on average than the modern grey wolf, which can grow a little over three feet tall at the shoulder, or 97 cm, but it was much heavier and more solidly built. It wouldn’t have been able to run nearly as fast, but it could attack and kill larger animals. Its head was larger in proportion than the grey wolf’s and it had massive teeth that were adapted to crush bigger bones.

What does it mean to create new music with respect for Indigenous cultures, stories and experiences? Found Sound Nation's Christopher Marianetti and Joe Bergen discuss their new project, Beringia, with Wild Shore New Music's Katie Cox and Angie Tanning. more.

Beringiaks nimetatakse viimasel jääajal olemas olnud suurt piirkonda, mis hõlmas nii praegust Tšuktšimaad kui ka Beringi väina ja Alaskat. Kuna Beringi väinas vett ei olnud, siis kulgesid seda mööda mitmed loomaliigid nii Aasiast Põhja-Ameerikasse kui vastupidises suunas. Berngia maasilda mööda jõudsid Ameerikasse ka esimesed inimesed.

Episode 191. Topic: Beringia. Theme: Indigenous Americans. How did native populations enter the Americas? Why do we think humans were in the Americas long before that? What is Beringia and who are the descendants of the peoples that lived there?

P&C drink and review their own pale ales, which were made from the same batch, but used different dry hops. The differences are very interesting. Then they discuss the first Americans -- their history in Beringia, and how they may have migrated into North and South America. The boys discuss some of the strange details of the ice age, and how early humans lived in the "Mammoth steppe" of Beringia for tens of thousands of years before a passageway opened up to allow travel onto the continent, where they quickly spread across all of North and South America. They review "Clovis first" and some newer evidence that humans may have been in the Americas before then.

Questo decimo episodio ha un titolo decisamente presuntuoso. Una domanda precisa, quella a cui questo podcast vuol tentare di rispondere. D'altro canto, siamo oramai al decimo episodio del podcast MiticheStelle, e dopo aver ascoltato tanti miti provenienti dalle più disparate regioni della Terra, lontane tra loro nel tempo e nello spazio, è giunta finalmente l'ora di provare a trarre qualche conclusione.

A quick explanation why it's misleading to say the ancestors of Native Americans came via a land bridge from Asia.

En una era en la que el planeta Tierra estaba completamente helado, nuestros simiescos conductores liderean a un grupo de antiguos humanos al atravesar el recién descubierto "Estrecho de Beringia" para llegar a nuevas tierras rompiendo los mitos que aseguran la existencia de enormes lagartos y buscando probar que los grandes mastodontes y tigres dientes de sable abundan y no se extinguirán, lo que beneficiará los muy debatidos negocios del doctor Fontanelli y el profesor Larios. Conductores: Oscar Fontanelli / Iván Larios Diseño: Diego Larios

In her acclaimed first book, “Floating Coast,” historian Bathsheba Demuth explores how capitalism, communism and ecology have clashed for over 150 years in the remote region of Beringia, the Arctic lands and waters stretching between Russia and Canada. Demuth trekked through the landscape and historical archives in search of answers to questions such as: How … Continue reading Ep. 28 – Bathsheba Demuth on capitalism, communism and arctic ecology →

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago.Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.Lloyd Ryan has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi (1989). He's done folklore research on the neighbor Canadian islands in Newfoundland.

Episode 439 with Bathsheba Demuth hosted by Chris GratienDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudHow can we narrate human history in relation to the non-human world? In this inaugural installment of our new environmental humanities series Climes, we talk to Bathsheba Demuth about the craft of environmental history. She reads selections from her new book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and we discuss how hunting, capitalism, and communism shaped the Arctic region of Beringia. « Click for More »

In 1848, New England ships crossed the Bering Strait in pursuit of the bowhead whales that provided their income. In the years since, the activity of outsiders- from hunters, to government bureaucrats, to consumers of energy who never set foot in the region- has had a deep impact on the region, but the environment of Beringia has made the place itself an active participant in this process. About a century and a half after New England whalers crossed the Bering Strait, Bathsheba Demuth graduated High School in Iowa and moved north of the Arctic Circle in the Yukon. She later earned a PhD in history, and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. In this episode, Bathsheba joins Ben for a conversation about her research, how her fascination with the arctic led her to dedicate much of her life to understanding Beringia, and the ways that an environmental perspective allows us to better understand our place in the world and that of others. Bathsheba's new book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait was published by W.W. Norton & Co in 2019. It is a masterpiece. For more on Dr. Bathsheba Demuth, visit her website- www.brdemuth.com- and follow her on twitter at @brdemuth. The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

". . . it is an extraordinary betrayal of a national promise to care for, that the state will care for the people and its land. And the state has cared for them in the past, that the state has said 'Yes, we are here, you can depend on us. Put aside your traditional ways of gathering food or of looking out for each other. Because we are here now, and we are here to, you know, supplant your economy with our economy now, so you can depend on it and we'll be there.' And then for that state to disappear, is deadly. It's really deadly."In Part 3, National Book Award Finalist and Fulbright fellow Julia Phillips, author of the debut novel Disappearing Earth, discusses behavioral expectations for women across the circumpolar North, including some surprising differences and similarities across cultures. Discussion includes the “second shift” women endure across cultural and national identities, and examination of the common threads of colonialism which have impacted Indigenous cultures in both Russia and the United States. Phillips reflects upon the struggle of Indigenous Kamchatkans to retain language and traditional way of life. She reminds us that the infrastructure buildup during the years of the U.S.S.R. provided enormous economic security to rural Kamchatkan communities, which collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union. She talks about the privations remembered in rural Kamchatka after Soviet support evaporated, complicating current sentiments about the future of the Russian State. In closing this episode, Phillips’ recollections of stories told by Indigenous Kamchatkans of the post-Soviet era, serve as a cautionary tale to Alaskans of the dangers rural communities here face in our current era of declining oil revenues.

Your co-hosts talk clonal trees and dispense important advice about relationships, breakups, and having “the conversation” with your children on this week’s podcast. Then (17:16) we talk to Brown University’s Bathsheba Demuth (http://www.brdemuth.com) about her new book Floating Coast (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635164) a beautifully conceived and written environmental history of the Bering Strait from the 18ththrough the 20thcenturies. We start with how American and Soviet modernist projects differentially impacted Beringia during the 20thcentury and why the oceanic productivity of the Arctic attuned her to the energy transformations that then became a powerful red thread throughout the book. We turn from there to the temporality of whales, baleen as infrastructure and path dependency, Soviet vs. American conceptualizations of progress, the place of indigenous memories and knowledge in her historical methodology, and much much more.

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we dive into specifics about the author's identity and experience as a white American woman from New York City, observing rural and Indigenous Russians of Kamchatka in their day-to-day lives. We hear her reflections about time spent in rural Kamchatka, traveling with dogsled teams, reindeer herding families, and gathering wild foods. We reflect on circumpolar questions about the ocean’s fish supply after Fukushima, and in the context of a warming Arctic. She shares her observations about the post-Soviet religious environment, including Russian Orthodox religion and shamanism, and her experiences with various modes of transportation, including by Soviet tanks with snowmobile tracks. Her cross-cultural perspective sheds insight on the way educational systems in other parts of the world contrast with, and exceed what many Americans may imagine. In closing, the episode circles back, to the pervasiveness of enforced patriarchal, gender-based expectations and violence in the day-to-day lives of women in the circumpolar north.

I mention convergent evolution occasionally, but what is it really? This week we learn about what it is and some animals that demonstrate it. Thanks to Richard E. and Llewelly for their suggestions this week! Jaguars and leopards look so similar I’m not 100% sure this picture actually shows one of each: The adorable sucker-footed bat from Madagascar: The equally adorable TOTALLY UNRELATED disk-winged bat from South America: Metriorhynchus looked a lot like a whale even though it was a crocodile ancestor: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to learn about some animals that represent convergent evolution. That’s a term that I mention every so often, so it’s time to really dig into it and see what it’s all about. We’ll start with animals that are fairly closely related, then work our way backwards to those that aren’t related at all. Basically, when unrelated organisms develop similar form, structure, or functions as each other, that’s called convergent evolution. One simple example is bats and birds. They’re not related, but both can fly using forelimbs that have been modified into wings. This topic idea was sparked by an idea from Richard E., who suggested an episode about evolution and how it doesn’t “improve” anything, just adapts. That’s an important distinction. Evolution is a reactive force, not a proactive. Sometimes we use terms like advanced to describe certain animals, and primitive to describe others with traits that haven’t changed in a long time. That implies that some animals are “better” than others, or better adapted. In actuality, one trait is not better or worse than another, as long as both traits help the animal survive and thrive. If an animal has traits that haven’t changed in millions of years but it’s still doing well, it’s as adapted as it needs to be. An animal that’s extremely specialized to an environment can sometimes be much more vulnerable to environmental change than a more generalized animal, too. From a scientific point of view, while it may look like species become more advanced as time goes on, all it means is that a lot of animals have evolved to occupy specific ecological niches. One example Richard gives is the panda, which we talked about in episode 42 about strange bears. The panda is an extremely specialized animal. It’s a bear that is no longer a carnivore, for one thing, and not only does it not eat meat, or hardly any meat since it will eat small animals and bird eggs when it finds them, it mostly just eats one type of plant. That plant, of course, is bamboo, which is low in nutrients. The panda has adapted in all sorts of ways to be able to digest bamboo, and one of the most obvious adaptations is what looks like a sixth toe on its forefeet. It’s not a toe but a projecting sesamoid bone that acts as a toe and helps the panda grasp bamboo. But the panda’s sixth toe evolved because of selective pressures, because pandas born with the toe were able to eat more bamboo and were therefore healthier and more likely to have babies than pandas without the toe. Richard also mentioned the similarities between jaguars and leopards. They are related, but not closely. The jaguar is more closely related to the leopard than to the lion, but the leopard is more closely related to the lion than to the jaguar. That’s not confusing at all. But both cats look very similar, tawny or golden in color with black spots called rosettes, and both frequently demonstrate an all-black coloring called melanism. But the jaguar lives in the Americas while the leopard lives in Asia and parts of Africa. Why do they look so similar? In this case, a big part of the similarities between jaguars and leopards are that they share a common ancestor that lived around three and a half million years ago. The jaguar migrated from Africa into Europe and then into North America on the land bridge Beringia,

View Shownotes As the oldest site of human habitation in North America, the Meadowcroft Rockshelter has a challenge: how to convey its mind-boggling timescale, spanning from prehistory to the 19th century? David Scofield, director of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, describes how the museum is designed to connect the big changes in how people lived through 16,000 years of history. The Meadowcroft Rockshelter opens for its 50th season on May 5th, 2018. It is part of the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pennsylvania. Made possible by listeners like you. Join Club Archipelago today. Guest: David Scofield Topics Discussed 00:00: Intro 00:14: David Scofield, Director of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village 01:02: What Else Was Happening 16,000 Years Ago? 01:30: Discovery 04:20: Beringia 05:44: Expressing Large Timescales in Museums 08:55: Meadowcroft’s 50 Season 09:14: Outro

This week Spencer and Razib discuss the three great "Pleistocene Paradises" lost to rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age: Doggerland, Beringia and Sundaland.

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies and Ian Hudson uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago.Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.

A reexamination of museum mastodon specimens provides evidence that that last ones were gone from what's called the Beringia region well before any humans showed up. Emily Schwing reports       

A reexamination of museum mastodon specimens provides evidence that that last ones were gone from what's called the Beringia region well before any humans showed up. Emily Schwing reports       

It is truely an honor to have author Fritz Zimmernam with us tonight, he writes and speaks to topics that really resonate with me and my spirit.Independent researcher, author and antiquities preservationist Fritz Zimmerman, B.A. presents 10 years of research in his two-volume work, The Nephilim Chronicles. It is the most complete reporting of ALL of the giant skeletons unearthed throughout the ages from across the globe. The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley (Volume I) trails the origins of the “Bedrock Race”, debunking Beringia, providing undeniable evidence and outlining – completely – the Nephilim's migration across the globe, as chronicled by mounds and earthworks they built and symbolism they used. Those seeking factual, historical data on information such as: who really built Stonehenge, and many other earthworks throughout the worldmost complete list of giant skeletons and artifacts – none have chronicled this manyorigins of New Age beliefs – how pre-Native American Indians really worshipedorigins of numerology, and how it was used to align mounds and earthworks perfectly towards the rising and setting sunsThe Nephilimwhy the Beringia landbridge theory is a mythorigins of Earth Mother worship, and common symbolism still used todayorigins of Sky/Sun Father worship and symbolism used todaythe Amorites of the Bible, and the Ainu…..and much more!

It is truely an honor to have author Fritz Zimmernam with us tonight, he writes and speaks to topics that really resonate with me and my spirit. Independent researcher, author and antiquities preservationist Fritz Zimmerman, B.A. presents 10 years of research in his two-volume work, The Nephilim Chronicles.  It is the most complete reporting of ALL of the giant skeletons unearthed throughout the ages from across the globe.   The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley (Volume I) trails the origins of the “Bedrock Race”, debunking Beringia, providing undeniable evidence and outlining – completely – the Nephilim's migration across the globe, as chronicled by mounds and earthworks they built and symbolism they used.  Those seeking factual, historical data on information such as:   who really built Stonehenge, and many other earthworks throughout the world most complete list of giant skeletons and artifacts – none have chronicled this many origins of New Age beliefs – how pre-Native American Indians really worshiped origins of numerology, and how it was used to align mounds and earthworks perfectly towards the rising and setting suns The Nephilim why the Beringia landbridge theory is a myth origins of Earth Mother worship, and common symbolism still used today origins of Sky/Sun Father worship and symbolism used today the Amorites of the Bible, and the Ainu …..and much more!  

It is truely an honor to have author Fritz Zimmernam with us tonight, he writes and speaks to topics that really resonate with me and my spirit. Independent researcher, author and antiquities preservationist Fritz Zimmerman, B.A. presents 10 years of research in his two-volume work, The Nephilim Chronicles. It is the most complete reporting of ALL of the giant skeletons unearthed throughout the ages from across the globe. The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley (Volume I) trails the origins of the “Bedrock Race”, debunking Beringia, providing undeniable evidence and outlining – completely – the Nephilim’s migration across the globe, as chronicled by mounds and earthworks they built and symbolism they used. Those seeking factual, historical data on information such as: who really built Stonehenge, and many other earthworks throughout the world most complete list of giant skeletons and artifacts – none have chronicled this many origins of New Age beliefs – how pre-Native American Indians really worshiped origins of numerology, and how it was used to align mounds and earthworks perfectly towards the rising and setting suns The Nephilim why the Beringia landbridge theory is a myth origins of Earth Mother worship, and common symbolism still used today origins of Sky/Sun Father worship and symbolism used today the Amorites of the Bible, and the Ainu …..and much more!

  Diesmal mit Cosmos, Wissenschaftskommunikation, Tatort, der Doku A Man Of Science, Umberto Ecos “Das Foucaultsche Pendel” und “Der Friedhof in Prag“*, Neal Stephensons barocker Trilogie (Quicksilver, Confusion, Principia)*, Beringia, dem Benguelastrom, dem Zusammenhang zwischen Klimawandel und Artensterben, russichen Riesenviren, tellurischen Strömen, einer Auktion mit Weltraum-Andenken, Markus Gabriels “Warum es die Welt nicht gibt“* (Im Podcast), faulen Hartzern, attraktiven […]

  Diesmal mit Cosmos, Wissenschaftskommunikation, Tatort, der Doku A Man Of Science, Umberto Ecos “Das Foucaultsche Pendel” und “Der Friedhof in Prag“*, Neal Stephensons barocker Trilogie (Quicksilver, Confusion, Principia)*, Beringia, dem Benguelastrom, dem Zusammenhang zwischen Klimawandel und Artensterben, russichen Riesenviren, tellurischen Strömen, einer Auktion mit Weltraum-Andenken, Markus Gabriels “Warum es die Welt nicht gibt“* (Im Podcast), faulen Hartzern, attraktiven […]

Beringia (start time 0:55). We present an excerpt of  Shelly Schlender's  interview with University of Colorado scientist John Hoffecker, lead author of a recent paper in Science magazine about the Beringia land bridge and the people who lived there 25,000 years ago.  The full interview can be found here.   Dolphins & Climate Change (start time 4:40). Dr. Denise Herzing, the founder of the Wild Dolphin Project, has been building relationships with Atlantic Spotted Dolphins for 28 years. Her quest to learn whether dolphins have language, and to learn that language, is notable for its longevity. But her relationship with them is remarkably respectful, too. We last spoke to Dr. Herzing in the spring of 2012, about her book Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years With Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas. We're very glad that she's with us again, to help us learn about how large marine mammals may be responding in unusual ways to changes in the oceans. The Ogallala Road (start time 15:15).  We often hear about how the Colorado River is running dry. The Western  states that rely on its flowing water are struggling to reckon with how its depleting reservoirs will satiate growing  populations. You’ve probably seen images of the white “bathrub rings” at Lake Powell and Lake Mead that expose the water line rings of years ago.  But there’s an equally dramatic and dangerous drop in an invisible source of water. That’s the Ogallala Aquifer – an underground basin of groundwater that spans eight states on the High Plains, including Colorado. Nearly one third of irrigated cropland in the country stretches over the aquifer. And the Ogallala yields about a third  of the ground water that’s used for irrigation in the U.S.  The story of the Ogallala’s depletion is a very personal one for author Julene Bair. She lives in Longmont, but years ago she learned that the family farm in Kansas that she inherited had been a big part of the problem. Julene has written about her journey, including her desire to make the farm part of the solution. Julene joins us on the show to talk about her new book  The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning. Hosts: Jim Pullen, Susan Moran Producer: Joel Parker Engineer: Joel Parker Executive Producer: Jim Pullen Additional contributions:  Shelley Schlender Listen to the show:

I'm Shelley Schlender for How on Earth.  Here’s an extended version of an interview about how Native Americans came to be.  It’s about a CU-Boulder study that appeared in Science Magazine in February 2014, and promptly made headlines around the world.  The study involves top-notch detective work that shows how, almost 30,000 years ago, a major Ice Age trapped Asian explorers on a land bridge between Asia and Alaska for 10 THOUSAND years.  Back then, the "Beringia" (bare-IN-gee-ah) land bridge was 30 miles long and 600 miles wide. Glaciers had buried Northern America, but Beringia was just warm enough, the trapped explorers survived and thrived.  They stayed in that pit stop for so many thousands of years, it gave time for the inevitable mutations that can happen in DNA to be concentrated and become distributed throughout the entire Beringian community, which probably included a few thousand people.  When the glaciers finally receded around 15,000 years ago, that DNA signature was with the small band of “Beringians” who then began settling in the Americas.  Their settlements were successful.  Their numbers grew over time to become the millions of people today who still carry “Beringia” in their DNA. Today, we call that distinct, Beringian DNA proof that someone’s ancestors were “Native Americans.”