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fWotD Episode 2789: Bonn–Oberkassel dog Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Monday, 23 December 2024 is Bonn–Oberkassel dog.The Bonn–Oberkassel dog (German: Hund von Bonn–Oberkassel) was a Late Paleolithic (c. 14,000 years BP / c. 12,000 BCE) dog whose skeletal remains were found buried alongside two humans. Discovered in early 1914 by quarry workers in Oberkassel, Bonn, Germany, the double burial site was analyzed by a team of archaeologists from the University of Bonn. It was around 7.5 months old at death, 40–50 cm (16–20 in) tall at the shoulder, and weighed 13–18 kg (29–40 lb), suggesting a slender build similar to West Asian wolves (such as the Indian wolf) or some modern sighthounds.The dog's lower jaw was first thought to be from a wolf and placed into museum storage with the human remains, while the dog's other bones were put into the university's geological collections. The bones of the Bonn–Oberkassel dog were reunited in the late 1970s and reidentified as a domestic dog attributed to the Magdalenian culture, dating to the beginning of the Late Glacial Interstadial, c. 14,000 BP. A total of 32 identifiable bone fragments have been attributed to the dog. These have been used to estimate a number of the animal's characteristics.Osteoarthritis, alongside signs of enamel defects, missing teeth, and gum disease, indicate that the Bonn–Oberkassel dog survived a canine distemper infection as a puppy. Due to the high likelihood of death without assistance, the puppy's survival was probably due to human care. Such care would have involved providing food and water, as well as frequent cleaning. Extensive human care suggests significant compassion towards the dog, possibly indicating that the dog was seen as a pet. It is unknown how the dog died; it may have been due to the effects of its illness or other natural causes. An alternate possibility is that it was killed or sacrificed to be buried alongside the humans, an archaeologically attested practice linked to spiritual and religious motives. A molar belonging to a second, older dog was found at the site, likely used as a grave good.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:57 UTC on Monday, 23 December 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Bonn–Oberkassel dog on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Geraint.

On this week's episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the genetic and archaeological history of Europe from the arrival of modern humans (permanently) 45,000 years ago, to the end of the Bronze Age in the decades after 1200 BC. He covers these time periods: Pre-Aurignacian (before 43 kya)  Aurignacian (43-26 kya)  Gravettian (33-21 kya)  Solutrean (22-17 kya)  Magdalenian (17-12 kya)  Epigravettian (21-10 kya)  Mesolithic (12-7 kya)  Neolithic (9-5 kya)  Bronze Age (5-3 kya) The full episode is available for paid subscribers on: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/europe-40000-bc-to-1200-bc Relevant papers: Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the Source of the European Neolithic Gene Pool ​​Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages

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fWotD Episode 2633: Alpine ibex Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 20 July 2024 is Alpine ibex.The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), also known as the steinbock, is a European species of goat that lives in the Alps. It is one of ten species in the genus Capra and its closest living relative is the Iberian ibex. The Alpine ibex is a sexually dimorphic species; males are larger and carry longer horns than females. Its coat is brownish-grey. Alpine ibexes tend to live in steep, rough terrain and open alpine meadows. They can be found at elevations as high as 3,300 m (10,800 ft) and their sharp hooves allow them to scale their mountainous habitat.Alpine ibexes primarily feed on grass and are active throughout the year. Although they are social animals, adult males and females segregate for most of the year, coming together only to mate. During the breeding season, males use their long horns to fight for access to females. Ibexes have few predators but may succumb to parasites and diseases.By the 19th century, the Alpine Ibex had been extirpated from most of its range and it went through a population bottleneck of fewer than 100 individuals during its near-extinction event, leading to very low genetic diversity across populations. The species has been successfully reintroduced to parts of its historical range. All individuals living today descend from the stock in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. As of 2020, the IUCN lists the species as being of least concern.Carl Linnaeus first described the Alpine ibex in 1758. It is classified in the genus Capra with nine other species of goat. Capra is Latin for "she-goat" while the species name "ibex" is translated from Latin as "chamois" and is possibly derived from an earlier Alpine language.Fossils of the genus Tossunnoria are found in late Miocene deposits in China; these fossils appear to have been transitional between goats and their ancestors. The genus Capra may have originated in Central Asia and spread to Europe, the Caucasus, and East Africa from the Pliocene and into the Pleistocene. Mitochondrial and Y chromosome evidence show hybridisation of species in this lineage. Fossils of the Alpine ibex dating from the last glacial period during the late Pleistocene have been found in France and Italy. The Alpine Ibex and the Iberian ibex (C. pyrenaica) probably evolved from the extinct Pleistocene species Capra camburgensis, whose fossils have been found in Germany. The Alpine ibex appears to have been larger during the Pleistocene than in the modern day.In the 20th century, the Nubian (C. nubiana), walia (C. walie), and Siberian ibex (C. sibirica) were considered to be subspecies of the Alpine ibex; populations in the Alps were given the trinomial of C. i. ibex. Genetic evidence from 2006 has supported the status of these Ibexes as separate species.The following cladogram of seven Capra species is based on 2022 mitochondrial evidence:Alpine ibexes are sexually dimorphic. Males grow to a height of 90 to 101 cm (35 to 40 in) at the withers with a body length of 149–171 cm (59–67 in) and weigh 67–117 kg (148–258 lb). Females are much smaller and have a shoulder height of 73–84 cm (29–33 in), a body length of 121–141 cm (48–56 in), and weigh 17–32 kg (37–71 lb).The Alpine ibex is a stocky animal with a tough neck and robust legs with short metapodials. Compared with most other wild goats, the species has a wide, shortened snout. Adaptations for climbing include sharp, highly separated hooves and a rubbery callus under the front feet. Both male and female Alpine ibexes have large, backwards-curving horns with an elliptical cross-section and a trilateral-shaped core. Transverse ridges on the front surface of the horns mark an otherwise flat surface. At 69–98 cm (27–39 in), the horns of males are substantially longer than those of females, which reach only 18–35 cm (7.1–13.8 in) in length.The species has brownish-grey hair over most of its body; this hair's colour is lighter on the belly, and there are dark markings on the chin and throat. The hair on the chest region is nearly black and there are stripes along the dorsal (back) surface. The Alpine ibex is duller-coloured than other members of its genus. As with other goats, only males have a beard. Ibexes moult in spring, when their thick winter coat consisting of woolly underfur is replaced with a short, thin summer coat. Their winter coat grows back in the autumn. As in other members of Capra, the Alpine ibex has glands near the eyes, groin and feet but there are none on the face.The Alpine ibex is native to the Alps of central Europe; its range includes France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Fossils of the species have been found as far south as Greece, where it became locally extinct over 7,500 years ago due to human predation. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the species disappeared from much of its range due to hunting, leaving by the 19th century one surviving population in and around Gran Paradiso, Italy. The species has since been reintroduced into parts of its former range, as well as new areas such as Slovenia and Bulgaria.The Alpine Ibex is an excellent climber; it occupies steep, rough terrain at elevations of 1,800 to 3,300 m (5,900 to 10,800 ft). It prefers to live an open areas but when there is little snow, and depending on population density, adult males may gather in larch and mixed larch-spruce woodland. Outside the breeding season, the sexes live in separate habitats. Females are more likely to be found on steep slopes while males prefer more-level ground. Males inhabit lowland meadows during the spring, when fresh grass appears, and climb to alpine meadows during the summer. In early winter, both males and females move to steep, rocky slopes to avoid dense buildups of snow. Alpine ibexes prefer slopes of 30–45°, and take refuge in small caves and overhangs.The Alpine ibex is strictly herbivorous; its diet consists mostly of grass, which is preferred all year; during the summer, ibexes supplement their diet with herbs, while during autumn and winter they also eat dwarf shrubs and conifer shoots. The most-commonly eaten grass genera are Agrostis, Avena, Calamagrostis, Festuca, Phleum, Poa, Sesleria, and Trisetum. In the spring, animals of both sexes spend about the same amount of time feeding during the day, while in summer, females, particularly those that are lactating, eat more than males. High temperatures cause heat stress in large adult males, reducing their feeding time, but they may avoid this problem by feeding at night.In Gran Paradiso, home ranges of the Alpine Ibex can exceed 700 ha (1,700 acres) and in reintroduced populations, home ranges may approach 3,000 ha (7,400 acres). Home-range size depends on the availability of resources and the time of year. Home ranges tend to be largest during summer and autumn, smallest in winter, and intermediate in spring. Females' home ranges are usually smaller than those of males. Ibexes do not hibernate during the winter; they take shelter on cold winter nights and bask in the mornings. They also reduce their heart rate and metabolism. The Alpine ibex may compete for resources with chamois and red deer; the presence of these species may force the ibex to occupy high elevations. The Alpine ibex's climbing ability is such that it has been observed scaling the 57-degree slopes of the Cingino Dam in Piedmont, Italy, where it licks salts. Only females and kids, which are lighter and have shorter legs than adult males, will climb the steep dam. Kids have been observed at 49 m (161 ft), ascending in a zig-zag path while descending in straight paths.The Alpine ibex is a social species but it tends to live in groups that are based on sex and age. For most of the year, adult males group separately from females, and older males live separately from young males. Female groups consist of 5–10 members and male groups usually have 2–16 members but sometimes have more than 50. Dependent kids live with their mothers in female groups. Segregation between the sexes is a gradual process; males younger than nine years may still associate with female groups. Adult males, particularly older males, are more likely to be found alone than females. Social spacing tends to be looser in the summer, when there is more room to feed. Ibexes have stable social connections; they consistently regroup with the same individuals when ecological conditions force them together. Female groups tend to be more stable than male groups.In the breeding season, which occurs in December and January, adult males and females gather together, and separate again in April and May. Among males, a dominance hierarchy based on size, age, and horn length exists. Hierarchies are established outside the breeding season, allowing males to focus more on mating and less on fighting. Males use their horns for combat; they will bash the sides of rivals or clash head-to-head, the latter often involves them standing bipedally and clashing downwards.Alpine ibexes communicate mainly through short, sharp whistles that serve mostly as alarm calls and may occur singularly or in succession with short gaps. Females and their young communicate by bleating.The mating season begins in December and typically lasts for around six weeks. During this time, male herds break up into smaller groups and search for females. The rut takes place in two phases; in the first phase, males interact with females as a group and in the second phase, one male separates from his group to follow a female in oestrus. Dominant males between nine and twelve years old follow a female and guard her from rivals while subordinate, younger males between two and six years old try to sneak past the tending male when he is distracted. If the female flees, both dominant and subordinate males will try to follow her. During courtship, the male stretches the neck, flicks the tongue, curls the upper lip, urinates, and sniffs the female. After copulation, the male rejoins his group and restarts the first phase of the rut. Environmental conditions can affect courtship in the species; for example, snow can limit the males' ability to follow females and mate with them.The female is in oestrus for around 20 days and gestation averages around five months, and typically results in the birth of one or sometimes two kids. Females give birth away from their social groups on rocky slopes that are relatively safe from predators. After a few days, the kids can move on their own. Mothers and kids gather into nursery groups, where young are nursed for up to five months. Nursery groups can also include non-lactating females. Alpine ibexes reach sexual maturity at 18 months but females continue to grow until they are around five or six years old, and males are nine to eleven years old.The horns grow throughout life. Young are born without horns, which become visible as tiny tips at one month and reach 20–25 mm (0.8–1.0 in) in the second month. In males, the horns grow at about 8 cm (3.1 in) per year for the first five-and-a-half years, slowing to half that rate once the animal reaches 10 years of age. The slowing of horn growth in males coincides with aging. The age of an ibex can be determined by annual growth rings in the horns, which stop growing in winter.Male Alpine Ibexes live for around 16 years while females live for around 20 years. The species has a high adult survival rate compared with other herbivores around its size. In one study, all kids reached two years of age and the majority of adults lived for 13 years, although most 13-year-old males did not reach the age of 15. Alpine ibexes have a low rate of predation; their mountain habitat keeps them safe from predators like wolves, though golden eagles may prey on young. In Gran Paradiso, causes of death are old age, lack of food, and disease. They are also killed by avalanches.Alpine ibexes may suffer necrosis and fibrosis caused by the bacteria Brucella melitensis, and foot rot caused by Dichelobacter nodosus. Infections from Mycoplasma conjunctivae damage the eye via keratoconjunctivitis and can lead to death rates of up to 30%. Ibexes can host gastrointestinal parasite]s such as coccidia, strongyles, Teladorsagia circumcincta, and Marshallagi amarshalli as well as lungworms, mainly Muellerius capillaris. Several individuals have died from heart diseases, including arteriosclerosis, cardiac fibrosis, sarcosporidiosis, and valvular heart disease.During the Middle Ages, the Alpine ibex ranged throughout the Alpine region of Europe. Starting in the early 16th century, the overall population declined due almost entirely to hunting by humans, especially with the introduction of firearms. By the 19th century, only around 100 individuals remained in and around Gran Paradiso in north-west Italy and on the Italian-French border. In 1821, the Government of Piedmont banned hunting of the Alpine ibex and in 1854, Victor Emmanuel II declared Gran Paradiso a royal hunting reserve. In 1920, his grandson Victor Emmanuel III of Italy donated the land to the state of Italy and it was established as a national park. By 1933, the Alpine ibex population reached 4,000 but subsequent mismanagement by the Fascist government caused it to drop to around 400 by 1945. Their protection improved after the war and by 2005, there were 4,000 in the national park. In the late 20th century, the Gran Paradiso population was used for reintroductions into other parts of Italy.Starting in 1902, several Alpine ibexes from Gran Paradiso were taken into captive facilities in Switzerland for selective breeding and reintroduction into the wild. Until 1948, translocated founder animals were captive-bred. Afterwards, there were reintroductions of wild-born specimens from established populations in Piz Albris, Le Pleureur, and Augstmatthorn. These gave rise to the populations in France and Austria. Alpine ibexes also recolonised areas on their own. The Alpine ibex population reached 3,020 in 1914, 20,000 in 1991, and 55,297 in 2015, and by 1975, the species occupied much of its medieval range. In the 1890s, ibexes were introduced to Slovenia despite the lack of evidence of their presence there following the last glacial period. In 1980, ibexes were translocated to Bulgaria.Between 2015 and 2017, there were around 9,000 ibexes in 30 colonies in France, over 17,800 individuals and 30 colonies in Switzerland, over 16,400 ibexes in 67 colonies in Italy, around 9,000 in 27 colonies in Austria, around 500 in five colonies in Germany, and almost 280 ibexes and four colonies in Slovenia. As of 2020, the IUCN considers the Alpine ibex to be of Least Concern with a stable population trend. It was given a recovery score of 79%, making it "moderately depleted". While the species would likely have gone extinct without conservation efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries, as of 2021, it has a low conservation dependence. According to the IUCN, without current protections, the population decline of the species would be minimal. Some countries allow limited hunting.Having gone through a genetic bottleneck, the Alpine ibex population has low genetic diversity and is at risk of inbreeding depression. A 2020 analysis found highly deleterious mutations were lost in these new populations but they had also gained mildly deleterious ones. The genetic purity of the species may be threatened by hybridisation with domestic goats, which have been allowed to roam in the Alpine Ibex's habitat. The genetic bottleneck of populations may increase vulnerability to infectious diseases because their immune system has low major histocompatibility complex diversity. In the Bornes Massif region of the French Alps, management actions, including a test-and-cull program to control outbreaks, effectively reduced Brucella infection prevalence in adult females from 51% in 2013 to 21% in 2018, and active infections also significantly declined.The Alpine ibex is called the steinbock, which originated from the Old High German word steinboc, literally "stone buck". Several European names for the animal developed from this, including the French bouquetin and the Italian stambecco. The Alpine ibex is one of many animals depicted in the art of the Late Pleistocene-era Magdalenian culture in Western Europe. Local people used Ibexes for traditional medicine; the horn material was used to counter cramps, poisoning, and hysteria, while the blood was thought to prevent stones from developing in the bladder. The species' value as a source of medicine led to its near extinction. Since its recovery, the Alpine ibex has been seen as a resilient symbol of the mountain range. The species is depicted on the coat of arms of the Swiss canton of Grisons.Alpine Ibex European Specialist Group (GSE-AIESG)This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:31 UTC on Saturday, 20 July 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Alpine ibex on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm long-form Gregory.

https://www.patreon.com/GnosticInformant Please Consider joining my Patreon to help finding scholars to bring on. Any amount helps me. Thank you existing Patrons. 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LateNiteGnosis Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NealSendlak1 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/uWBZkxd4UX A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have been found as far away as Siberia, and distributed across much of Eurasia. Most date from the Gravettian period (26,000–21,000 years ago). However, findings are not limited to this period; for example, the Venus of Hohle Fels dates back at least 35,000 years to the Aurignacian era, and the Venus of Monruz dates back about 11,000 years to the Magdalenian. Such figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired. The latter are among the oldest ceramics known to historians. In total, over 200 such figurines are known; virtually all of modest size, between about 3 and 40 cm (1.2 and 15.7 in) in height. These figurines are recognised as some of the earliest works of prehistoric art. Most have wide hips and legs that taper to a point. Arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless. Various figurines exaggerate the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva, although many found examples do not reflect these typical characteristics. Depictions of hairstyles can be detailed, and especially in Siberian examples, clothing or tattoos may be indicated. The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artefacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function. There are widely varying and speculative interpretations of their use or meaning: they have been seen as religious figures, an expression of health and fertility, grandmother goddesses, or as self-depictions by female artists. The Venus of Tan-Tan (supposedly, 500,000-300,000 BP) is an alleged artifact found in Morocco. It and its contemporary, the Venus of Berekhat Ram, have been claimed as the earliest representations of the human form. The Venus of Berekhat Ram (280,000-250,000 BP) is a pebble found at Berekhat Ram on the Golan Heights. The pebble was modified by early humans and is suggested to represent a female human figure. The object was excavated and first described by Naama Goren-Inbar from the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The artifact is a scoria pebble, 35 mm long, 25 mm wide, and 21 mm thick. It weighs approximately 10 g. It was excavated in 1981 at the Acheulian site of Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights. The object is dated 280,000-250,000 BP. Goren-Inbar reported several artificial grooves on the object: one is a transversal groove in the upper third, others are longitudinal grooves on the sides below the traversal groove. Alexander Marshack performed a microscopic study of the object in 1997. He also reported artificial modifications including the transversal and longitudinal grooves found by Goren-Inbar. Finally, Francesco d'Errico and April Nowell re-examined the object using a comparative approach. They partly confirmed, partly corrected the findings of Marshack. d'Errico and Nowell also reported the above grooves (with some corrections) and, additionally, reported areas of possible abrasion on the front, back and bottom of the object. The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000-year-old image is 31 centimetres tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps on tiptoes, legs apart and arms to the sides of a slender, cat-like body with strong shoulders like the hips and thighs of a lion. #gnosticinformant #lionman #documentary --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gnosticinformant/message

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On this episode, Dr. Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us to talk about The Man from Earth (2007), the story of an academic who tries to convince his colleagues that he is 14,000 years old. This low budget movie was filmed on camcorders and takes place in a single room, and yet it's somehow one of the better movies we've seen! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Watch The Man from Earth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Fjr658CQs Doggerland: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/doggerland/ Magdalenian Culture: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalenian-culture Magdalenian artifacts: http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/glos_plml/typos7.html Why Call Them Back From Heaven? By Clifford Simak: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/757061 Panspermia: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/postcards-from-the-universe/life_traveling_in_space_a/ Alfred Russel Wallace's battle with flat-earthers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/wallace-8217-s-woeful-wager-how-a-founder-of-modern-biology-got-suckered-by-flat-earthers/ D'Errico et al. (2001). An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00060968 McBrearty and Brooks (2000). The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behaviour: https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.2000.0435 Neanderthals and modern humans share the same FOXP2 “language” gene: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05859-7 QAnon supporters though JFK Jr. would return: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/02/qanon-jfk-jr-dallas/ The Nxivm Cult: https://www.nytimes.com/article/nxivm-timeline.html

On this episode, Dr. Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us to talk about The Man from Earth (2007), the story of an academic who tries to convince his colleagues that he is 14,000 years old. This low budget movie was filmed on camcorders and takes place in a single room, and yet it's somehow one of the better movies we've seen! Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Watch The Man from Earth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Fjr658CQs Doggerland: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/doggerland/ Magdalenian Culture: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalenian-culture Magdalenian artifacts: http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/glos_plml/typos7.html Why Call Them Back From Heaven? By Clifford Simak: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/757061 Panspermia: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/postcards-from-the-universe/life_traveling_in_space_a/ Alfred Russel Wallace's battle with flat-earthers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/wallace-8217-s-woeful-wager-how-a-founder-of-modern-biology-got-suckered-by-flat-earthers/ D'Errico et al. (2001). An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origin of symbolism and language: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00060968 McBrearty and Brooks (2000). The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behaviour: https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.2000.0435 Neanderthals and modern humans share the same FOXP2 “language” gene: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05859-7 QAnon supporters though JFK Jr. would return: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/02/qanon-jfk-jr-dallas/The Nxivm Cult: https://www.nytimes.com/article/nxivm-timeline.html

Episode: 2410 Was cave art too good to have been made 30,000 years ago?  Today, a new look at old art.

Lexman interviews the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum. They discuss the drugget, quittors, granger and cingulum models.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Gillian Wong, who is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tuebingen. Dr. Wong chats with us about her early outdoor days, experiences at UC Davis, and how learning French has been useful for her in archaeology. We then delve into her thesis/dissertation work at the University of Utah and then in Germany. She pronounces the name of the site she worked on and Connor/Carlton fails to replicate her pronunciation. Dr. Wong then talks about her experiences being a military spouse and also some advice for those who are military spouses. Literature Recommendations 2008 The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terry O'Connor 2017 Human Subsistence and Environment during the Magdalenian at Langmahdhalde: Evidence from a new Rock Shelter in the Lone Valley, Southwest Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J. 2018 An Introduction to Zooarchaeology by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez 2016 Taphonomy for Taxonomists: Implications of predation in small mammal studies by Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Andrews, P., Denys, C., Sesé, C., Stoetzel, E., Marin-Monfort, D., Pesquero, D. 2019 Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly 2020 New perspectives on human subsistence during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura, Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Drucker, D. G., Conard 2020 Latest Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany: evidence from stable isotope analysis and micromammal remains by Wong, Gillian L., Drucker, D. G., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J. Dr. Wong's Recorded lecture on her work at Langmahdhalde Holding down the Fort Podcast Guest Contact Twitter @GillianLWong Email: gillian.wong368@gmail.com Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Ruins on APN: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/alifeinruins/shop ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Gillian Wong, who is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tuebingen. Dr. Wong chats with us about her early outdoor days, experiences at UC Davis, and how learning French has been useful for her in archaeology. We then delve into her thesis/dissertation work at the University of Utah and then in Germany. She pronounces the name of the site she worked on and Connor/Carlton fails to replicate her pronunciation. Dr. Wong then talks about her experiences being a military spouse and also some advice for those who are military spouses. Literature Recommendations 2008 The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terry O'Connor 2017 Human Subsistence and Environment during the Magdalenian at Langmahdhalde: Evidence from a new Rock Shelter in the Lone Valley, Southwest Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J. 2018 An Introduction to Zooarchaeology by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez 2016 Taphonomy for Taxonomists: Implications of predation in small mammal studies by Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Andrews, P., Denys, C., Sesé, C., Stoetzel, E., Marin-Monfort, D., Pesquero, D. 2019 Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly 2020 New perspectives on human subsistence during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura, Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Drucker, D. G., Conard 2020 Latest Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany: evidence from stable isotope analysis and micromammal remains by Wong, Gillian L., Drucker, D. G., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J. Dr. Wong's Recorded lecture on her work at Langmahdhalde Holding down the Fort Podcast Guest Contact Twitter @GillianLWong Email: gillian.wong368@gmail.com Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Ruins on APN: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/alifeinruins/shop ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

Take a trip through the Zodiac to learn about all the signs that aren’t Scorpio. Eleven signs with eleven corresponding constellations, Jordan and Leann decide which is the most boring, what sign they’d rather be if they could choose, and if their friends match their signs.   Contact: Twitter: @byscorpios Instagram: @byscorpios Email us at ForScorpiosByScorpios@gmail.com Follow Jordan on Twitter: @KeyTenavast Follow Leann on Instagram: @leann_schneider Art by Kelsey Heaton: @kelsey.heaton on Instagram Timestamps:  1:06 - Horoscopes from www.tarot.com  6:42 - A Trip Through The Zodiac: What is it? 10:00 - Leann and Jordan’s opinions about space and celestial bodies 14:20 - Let’s start with Aquarius!  20:30 - Why is Pisces two fish? Also, Jordan is correct.   31:00 - Aries is a ram and / or a bent V 34:43 - Ruling the bull in Taurus   38:00 - Airy, intellectual Gemini Twins 41:24 - Finally, we’ve arrived at the 69 symbol, Cancer 45:51 - Spermy Lions in Leo 49:40 - Maidens, Virgos, and Jordan’s wife, are very organized 55:05 - Libras (or librarians?) are very charming and Jordan and Leann are jealous  57:35 - THE BEST AND ONLY SIGN THAT MATTERS 66:22 - Sagittarius the Centaur  1:09:35 - Wrapping up with Capricorn  1:12:42 - Jordan and Leann debate which sign they like the best and would choose if they could pick   Corrections:  37:53 - Lascaux Caves are about 17,000 years old, not millions. (The drawings are the combined effort of many generations, and with continued debate, the age of the paintings is estimated at around 17,000 years (early Magdalenian).[3][4][5])   Bibliography:  www.tarot.com  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_sign National Geographic Article about Marco Polo and Pasta: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2016/07-08/daily-life-pasta-italy-neapolitan-diet/#close Mann, C. C. (2011). 1493: Uncovering the new world Columbus created. New York: Knopf. The Abduction of Ganymede by Rembrandt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abduction_of_Ganymede Icthyocentaurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyocentaurs

There is a cave in southern France that contains some of the world's most deeply hidden secrets. To get there you must crawl on your belly through a long tomb-like passage, with your only light held between your teeth.

There is a cave in southern France that contains some of the world’s most deeply hidden secrets. To get there you must crawl on your belly through a long tomb-like passage, with your only light held between your teeth.

There is a cave in southern France that contains some of the world’s most deeply hidden secrets. To get there you must crawl on your belly through a long tomb-like passage, with your only light held between your teeth.  

This episode traces the lives of humans during the last glacial period of the Ice Ages, particularly in the regions where polar conditions were most prevalent. In Europe, we trace the lineages of forager peoples from the Aurignacians to the Magdalenians and learn about their toolkits, hunting strategies, and artworks, including the spectacular cave paintings. In Siberia, we examine several different cultures that adapted to the expansive steppes. In North America, we look at the Clovis culture and come to understand how the first Americans lived in their world. History is covered from 39,000 to 12,500 years ago.Transcript: https://riverofhistory.tumblr.com/post/184021186461/episode-10-life-during-the-ice-agesLinks and References Mentioned: Chauvet Cave re-dating: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/17/4670Leroy McDermontt Venus figurines: https://steemit.com/science/@deeallen/self-portraits-of-fertility-symbols-venus-figurines-of-upper-paleolithic-eurasia-nudityMissing Fingers on Hand Stencils: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41982-018-0016-8Lascaux star map?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/871930.stmSiberian archaeological record: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/693388Gomphothere hunt: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121807/

This episode traces the lives of humans during the last glacial period of the Ice Ages, particularly in the regions where polar conditions were most prevalent. In Europe, we trace the lineages of forager peoples from the Aurignacians to the Magdalenians and learn about their toolkits, hunting strategies, and artworks, including the spectacular cave paintings. In Siberia, we examine several different cultures that adapted to the expansive steppes. In North America, we look at the Clovis culture and come to understand how the first Americans lived in their world. History is covered from 39,000 to 12,500 years ago.Transcript: https://riverofhistory.tumblr.com/post/184021186461/episode-10-life-during-the-ice-agesLinks and References Mentioned: Chauvet Cave re-dating: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/17/4670Leroy McDermontt Venus figurines: https://steemit.com/science/@deeallen/self-portraits-of-fertility-symbols-venus-figurines-of-upper-paleolithic-eurasia-nudityMissing Fingers on Hand Stencils: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41982-018-0016-8Lascaux star map?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/871930.stmSiberian archaeological record: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/693388Gomphothere hunt: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121807/

  “Isn’t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?” - VP “Where does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?” - MJ   In today's episode, we engage in a far-ranging and open-ended discussion on the question of the global with my longtime collaborator Mark Jarzombek. Circulating around the question of the larger agenda of the global, discussion topics include the modernity and its critiques, the nation-state and its limits, autobiography and its pitfalls, and what are the ways in which global thinking (dis)connects with deconstruction.   2:31 Magdalenian culture and civilization: the caves. The Gravettians. 4:09 A Global History of Architecture textbook + GAHTC: what is this global project? 6:50 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the critical question of the “after the modern” 11:23 Modernism as dualism: the good and the bad in equal doses, continuously, vs a Hegelian dialectic (destruction at the end) 13:30 “How to develop a critique that doesn’t entrap you into being complicit in one side of the game or the other side of the game?” -MJ ‘Isn’t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?’ -VP 14:26 “Where does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?” -MJ 17:43 Ethics, rights, powers, and personal agency 19:00 Give money to Greenpeace but not on the boat: individual agency and the social matrix 21:06 “Ethical in a particular way,” haunting to one’s subject-position   22:26 The shadowy terror of monotheism 23:35 The ‘Global’ as an ethics-opening term 25:04 Parallels and intersections of global histories with the craziness emerging with quantum theory in astrophysics 27:24 Uncertainty, possibility, and knowing (Meeting the Universe Halfway, Karen Barad) 28:04 What the people in Lascaux and Chauvet knew 28:14 “This sounds a little Hindu-ish to me, a little Vishnu,” and the conflicted presence of singular Judaism 34:36 Modernism and a vortex of non-dualities 36:42 Derrida as a “renegade rabbi”: reading from the margins 37:38 Connection between new materialism, French poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Jewish philosophy and Buddhist thinking? 39:06 No singular global can apply to everything 39:13 Biography as entry? Significance of personal epistemologies in critical thinking of the world. 43:58 “Vishnu-Modernism” 45:35 the Post-Holocaust vs the Post-Colonial Global 1:00:20 Limitations of Derrida’s critiques: ethics and Buddha’s ear to the ground 1:03:19 “Other oralities need to be known.”: this is the global history project 1:05:33 “Writing on writing. Writing on writing on writing.” Iterations. 1:07:37 Writing corrodes oral-communicative structures    

In this maiden voyage of the StarryTelling Podcast, we hear of Mercury’s first day of life when he stole Apollo’s cows, invented the Lyre, and became the Messenger. We then follow the trails of this starry story to uncover hidden cosmological, astronomical, astrological, and mystical gems woven into its web. Shortly after his birth, Mercury walks Apollo’s cows backwards in their tracks… Mercury Retrograde perhaps? Care to hear a tale? Featuring live music by Screens, Elijah Parker, and Masaru Higasa LINKS Gemini Brett www.MoreThanAstrology.com www.facebook.com/astrolonaut MoreThanAstrology@gmail.com Contributing Musicians: Elijah Parker www.OneDoorLand.com Masaru Higasa and Utooto www.MasaruHigasa.com Screens www.ScreensTheBand.com Astrologers / Teachers: Daniel Giamario and SAMS www.ShananicAstrology.com Gary Caton www.DreamAstrologer.com also see The Goddess Astrology Podcast Chris Brennan www.ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com Philosophy / Mysticism: Neil Kramer - www.NeilKramer.com Alan Watts on Maya and Science: http://youtu.be/6FsH161YR3k "The Hermetica - The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs" - Timothy Freak & Peter Gandy pp. 87 Academic Research: The Pleiades in the Salle de Taureaux, Grotto de Lascaux, Does a Rock Picture in the Cave of Lascaux Show the Open Star Cluster of the Pleiades at the Magdalenian era (circa 15,300 BCE) Author - Alexander V. Wachter Translated from German by Jan Burgermeister http://www.infis.org/downloads/mr1997cenglpdf.pdf "Star-Names and their Meanings" - Richard Hinkley Allen "The Pleiades: the celestial herd of ancient timekeepers." - Amelia Sparavigna http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.1592.pdf http://www.authenticmaya.com/maya_astronomy.htm

The gaps in what anthropologists know about the Magdalenian Age in Europe are enormous. Few human bones have been found, and the information about them is limited. That’s why the discovery of a partially complete human burial at El Mirón Cave is so exciting. It is the first burial ever found from this time period. UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Strauss discusses his latest find in Spain.

From about 18,000 to 10,000 b.c., long before Stonehenge and the pyramids, back when mammoths and saber-toothed cats still roamed the earth, prehistoric people painted deep inside caves in what is today the Dordogne region of France. These cave paintings are huge and sophisticated projects executed by artists and supported by an impressive culture — the Magdalenians. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.

From about 18,000 to 10,000 b.c., long before Stonehenge and the pyramids, back when mammoths and saber-toothed cats still roamed the earth, prehistoric people painted deep inside caves in what is today the Dordogne region of France. These cave paintings are huge and sophisticated projects executed by artists and supported by an impressive culture — the Magdalenians. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.