The methodology of dating these things is really not very reliable, making these big numbers they slap on these things not particularly meaningful.

But I’ve always found prehistory interesting.

Science News:

Scientific debate about the most controversial archaeological site in the Americas has entered rocky new territory.

In 2017, scientists reported that around 130,000 years ago, an unidentified Homo species used stone tools to break apart a mastodon’s bones near what is now San Diego. If true, that would mean that humans or one of our close evolutionary relatives reached the Americas at least 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, dramatically reshaping scientists’ understanding of when the region was settled (SN: 4/26/17).

Critics have questioned whether the unearthed stones were actually used as tools. And other researchers suggested that supposed tool marks on the bones could have been created as the bones were carried by fast-moving streams or caused by construction activity that partially exposed the California site before its excavation in 1992 and 1993.

But new analyses bolster the controversial claim, says a team that includes some of the researchers involved in the initial finding. Chemical residue of bones appears on two stones previously found among mastodon remains at the Cerutti Mastodon site, the scientists report in the December Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The two Cerutti rocks also show signs of having delivered or received hard blows where bone residue accumulated, the team says. The larger stone may have served as a platform on which the bones were smashed open with the smaller stone, possibly to remove marrow for eating or to obtain bone chunks suitable for shaping into tools.

“Many repeated blows are likely to have created the concentrations of broken [mastodon] bones” found at the site, says Richard Fullagar, a geoarcheaologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia who was also part of the original research. Hominids — perhaps Neandertals, Denisovans, Homo erectus or Homo sapiens — battered the large creature’s remains on one or possibly several visits to the site, Fullagar contends.

In the new study, Fullagar, Wollongong geoarchaeologist Luc Bordes and colleagues used microscopes to determine that the chemical and molecular structure of residue on the two stones matched that of bones in general. That residue must have been acquired by pounding apart mammoth bones that were found scattered around the stones, the team argues. Since microscopic remnants of bone appeared only where stones showed signs of wear and hard impacts, it’s unlikely that the stones accumulated the residue by accidentally coming in contact with mastodon bones after being covered by sediment, the scientists say.

This is the rock they’re claiming is a prehistorical tool:

It’s a little bit hard to buy that.

Frankly, the entire paradigm of primitive man running around in buck skins smashing things with rocks is hard to buy. Assuming they had the same basic biology as modern man (which they claim has been static for about 200,000 years), including our intelligence, then it just doesn’t make sense that they would spend multiple generations, let alone thousands of years, in a primitive state.

Furthermore, it doesn’t make any sense that while in a primitive state, they were building megalithic stone structures.

Stonehenge is dated as having been built in 3000 BC. Again, that’s a totally arbitrary date.

But in 3000 BC, we’re told that people were roughly the same as in 100,000 BC – running around in buck skins smashing things with rocks.

Göbekli Tepe, found in Turkey, is supposedly 12,000 years old.

It features art that is shockingly similar to art found in prehistoric Mexico.

There are massive stone structures all over the planet, in fact, which they give various arbitrary dates to.

Frankly, I think the entire narrative of prehistory is a lie.

Oh, burying ancient history for some water dam to help absolutely worthless third world niggers who should have been wiped out by a biologically engineered virus 70 years ago?

Is that what you just said to me?

The Guardian:

The ancient settlement of Hasankeyf will soon be submerged as part of a controversial dam project – despite residents’ protests

After the half-hour drive from Batman in south-east Turkey, the ancient city of Hasankeyf, which sits on the banks of the Tigris River, appears as an oasis.

Hasankeyf is thought to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth, dating as far back as 12,000 years and containing thousands of caves, churches and tombs.

But this jewel of human history will soon be lost; most of the settlement is about to be flooded as part of the highly controversial Ilisu dam project.

Construction work on the dam and its hydroelectric power plant started in 2006 and Hasankeyf is now just weeks away from destruction, despite a fight by residents and environmental campaigners to save it. The Turkish government has given residents until 8 October to evacuate.

An attempt to challenge the project at the European court of human rights on the grounds that it would damage the country’s cultural heritage was unsuccessful.

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The scheme will mean the flooding of 199 settlements in the region, thousands of human-made caves and hundreds of historical and religious sites. Campaigners warn that close to 80,000 people will be displaced.

They also warn of terrible damage to the natural environment, saying biodiversity will suffer, and that numerous vulnerable and endangered species are threatened by the construction of the dam.

Ridvan Ayhan, who was born in one of the caves in Hasankeyf, is an active member in the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, founded in 2006 as a grassroots campaign to halt the dam project.

Walking along the mountainside facing the town, Ayhan reached a cave clearly marked with an engraved cross, indicating an ancient church. “It’s not just our story, Hasankeyf, it’s also your story, because it’s the human story,” he said.

It is unknown what year the church dates back to. Only 10% of the area has been explored by archaeologists.

“We’ve asked for the area to be an open-air museum but the government wouldn’t accept it,” Ayhan said. “If you dig here you will find cultures layered on top of one another.”

Under the church is a tomb where piles of human bones have surfaced. “The government doesn’t even respect the dead,” Ayhan said. “They are barbaric.”

Hasankeyf has been part of many different cultures in its long history, including ancient Mesopotamia, Byzantium, Arab empires and the Ottoman empire, but Hakan Ozoglu, a history professor at the University of Central Florida, said the settlement predates all these civilisations.

So this is ancient history that is going to be destroyed forever, without ever having even been excavated, because a bunch of worthless goddamn filthy stinking niggers need a dam.

Why do these people exist? They are evil animals that should have been exterminated as soon as the technology existed to exterminate them – and the technology has existed for a long time.

Do you have any idea how easy it would be to engineer a virus to simply wipe them out, completely? The research more or less already exists in the public domain. We could very easily release a virus and in a matter of a few quick months completely wipe out the entire population of the Moslem world.

Just like that.

Vanish like a puff of smoke.

Instead, we’re talking about wiping out tens of thousands of years old ancient history which could hold untold secrets about the origins of the human race – the real human race, and by that I mean the Hyperborean race of the Aryan Man – to build these stupid niggers a dam.

Why are they wiping this out?

Why is it being allowed to happen?

Why is so much history being wiped out across the planet in the name of nigger progress?

Are the Jews attempting to bury the ancient history of our people, in order to make us believe that we are nothing but monkeys who exist simply to eat, fuck and buy plastic objects?

Is everything we are as external beings of light being erased by a satanic force of darkness, embodied by the Jewish people?

If that sounds crazy to you, then look at this picture of a creature that is being sent to touch your children:

Then check out a little bit of this:

And then tell me again that that sounds crazy to you.

We are living inside some kind of satanic nightmare, and I do not mean that metaphorically.

I mean we are living in an actual metaphysically satanic realm.

I have dreams of a previous age.

And an age before that.

And I have dreams of a bloody future.

And a rebirth.

We are on the edge of everything falling apart.

And almost everyone is going to die.

And by the will of God alone will we be reborn.

Believe it or not, these creatures behaved exactly like niggers.

This is pretty interesting, though I think these researchers are making a crucial mistake in thinking that Homo Erectus has gone extinct. Looking up pictures online, it’s pretty clear that they live on in Africa to this day, though in a slightly evolved form.

The main evolution seems to be the distillation of bananas into hard liquor.

Live Science:

It turns out laziness existed long before couches and takeout. The “why bother?” attitude not only existed hundreds of thousands of years ago, but may also have led to the decline of an ancient human ancestor.

Homo erectus first appeared 2 million years ago and went extinct some 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. But compared with other hominins, like Neanderthals, this species may have been quite lazy and more reluctant to adapt to a changing environment, according to new study published July 27 in the Journal PLOS One.

Of course, Homo Erectus are nothing compared with the Neanderthal master race. Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia, and mixed with Homo Sapiens to produce modern Europeans and East Asians. Their occupancy of a harsh, frozen landscape pressured them to become inventive and disciplined, while the Erectus niggers lazied around in the paradise-tier lands in Africa and the Ice-Age Middle East.

Erectuses (Erecti?) are allergic to hard work. In fact, they spend way more time sitting in the shade than being “erect,” leading some to think the name is a misnomer.

Archaeologists from Australian National University analyzed thousands of newfound and previously unearthed artifacts from an excavation site in the Arabian Peninsula in modern-day Saffaqah, Saudi Arabia, in 2014. Their findings suggested that the Homo erectus species in that area exerted the minimal effort necessary to make tools and find supplies. [Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans]

M I N I M A L   E F F O R T.

Sounds familiar?

Instead, these early humans lived in places that had easy access to stones and water, the study found.

“To make their stone tools, they would use whatever rocks they could find lying around their camp, which were mostly of comparatively low quality to what later stone-tool makers used,” lead author Ceri Shipton, an archaeologist at Australian National University, said in a statement. Such tools included cores, flakes, hand axes and cleavers.

Kind of like Africans just shit around their house, rather than dig a hole, which would take, like, minutes of time.

Nah, you’re way to busy like… Doing your hair or some shit.

A little way away from the Homo erectus camps was a rocky outcrop that had higher-quality rock but required a trek up a hill. “But rather than walk up the hill, they would just use whatever bits had rolled down and were lying at the bottom,” Shipton said.

When the researchers examined the rocky outcrop, they found that it was untouched by Homo erectus — no traces of activity, no artifacts and no quarrying of the stone, Shipton said in the statement. By contrast Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens climbed mountains for high-quality stones and transported them over long distances, according to the statement.

Neanderthal master race is representin’!

These early humans were strong and skillful, and they thrived in the region for some time. But once the riverbeds dried out, as sediment samples from the area reveal happened, these people’s lack of initiative doomed them.

Mmmmh.

Such an important lesson. Lazy niggers, and their ancestors, without intervention from White people, or their ancestors, will die out from their lack of initiative.

Once the Whites are gone from South Africa, the Blacks will go shortly thereafter.

None of these brown people have the capacity to adapt to the kind of disasters nature may have in store for us. Blacks aren’t going to prevent earth from being hit by an asteroid. Blacks aren’t going to reverse desertification of the rainforests. Blacks aren’t going to build underground bunkers, or greenhouses in the arctic.

If we lose this and die out, the rest of the planet’s featherless bipeds are going to be wiped out at the first major catastrophe.