MU_Peter

MU_Peter, 14 days ago to random

#FossilFriday
The Vogelherd horse

World's 1st carved horse:
The 35,000-year-old ivory figurine from Vogelherd cave
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/worlds-1st-carved-horse-the-35000-year-old-ivory-figurine-from-vogelherd-cave

Carved out of ivory, the figurine was created during the Upper Paleolithic.

MU_Peter, 16 days ago to food

#Lunch
Transport of snails to home base suggests food sharing among early humans

Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170–70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379123000781

MU_Peter, 16 days ago to random

Ay caramba!

Surfer Sets New World Record by Riding the Biggest Wave Ever
https://flipboard.com/video/buzz60/e99a2aa907

Watch as Sebastian Steudtner surfs a giant 93.73 foot wave and smashes world record. It was captured at the famed Nazaré, a big wave surfing spot in Portugal.

MU_Peter, 17 days ago to random

☀️ Good morning!

A lifesaver ring floating on the ocean Caption: You don't need a reason to help people.

MU_Peter, 18 days ago to random

These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x

The corvids are the first animals other than humans known to produce a deliberate number of calls on command.

MU_Peter, 18 days ago to random

🎵 This study provides strong empirical evidence of cross-cultural regularities in music and speech.

Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm9797

MU_Peter, 21 days ago to random

Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years ago on the threshold of Sahul
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48395-x

Suggests the intensive early occupation at Laili represents a colonisation phase, which may have overwhelmed previous human dispersals in the region

Multifunctional lithics from Laili Layer 20.

MU_Peter, 21 days ago to random

Hominins regarded bears as food and raw material.

A diachronic study of human-bear interactions:
An overview of ursid exploitation during the Paleolithic of Germany
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124001021

Here, bear exploitation is reported at 5 Lower to Upper Paleolithic sites.

MU_Peter, 23 days ago to random

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today.

Here's how...

'More Neanderthal than human':
How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/more-neanderthal-than-human-how-your-health-may-depend-on-dna-from-our-long-lost-ancestors

MU_Peter, 25 days ago to random

50,000 archaeological sites in France

• from prehistory to the present day -
  have been listed for the first time in a new atlas.

A portrait of the past:
What is the Archaeological Atlas of France?
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/03/25/a-portrait-of-the-past-what-is-the-archaeological-atlas-of-france

MU_Peter, 27 days ago to random

#InternationalMuseumDay

The Tautavel Museum of Prehistory owes its existence to an exceptional archaeological site, among the most important in the world, the Caune de l'Arago.

Tautavel Museum of Prehistory
https://450000ans.com/

MU_Peter, 28 days ago to random

The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts, nearly 130,000-year-old

A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountains
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324000372

Results of tomographic analysis a: 2D cross-section, b: 3D view, c: area subjected to analysis, d: analysed surface after removing the object form and applying high-pass filtering, e: incisions and their numbering. Prepared by G. Ziółkowski.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Humans first set foot on Sahul around 75,000 years ago.

Fresh perspective on environments inhabited by the first hunter-gatherer communities as they traversed Sahul.

Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47662-1

Characterising migratory patterns from two-state Lévy-like walkers.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

☀️Good morning!

Nature's blend...
Arabica coffee plant may have evolved between 600K and 1 mya after 2 other species crossbred

2 plants randomly mated up to 1 million years ago to give rise to one of the world's most popular drinks
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/2-plants-randomly-mated-up-to-1-million-years-ago-to-give-rise-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-drinks

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Geochemical provenancing and direct dating of the Harbin archaic human cranium
Qingfeng Shao Chris Stringer et al
https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(21)00056-4

Uranium-series disequilibrium dating directly on the cranium suggests the cranium is older than 146 thousand years.

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Cave Hosted Humans For 7,000 Years

First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia:
The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia

Mathew Stewart @EleanorScerri MDPetraglia Huw Groucutt et al
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299292

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Little is known about Pleistocene human occupation of north-eastern Africa outside the Nile Valley and desert oases.

Raw-material exploitation in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: evidence from Wadi Abu Subeira

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/rawmaterial-exploitation-in-the-earlier-and-middle-stone-age-in-the-eastern-desert-of-egypt-evidence-from-wadi-abu-subeira/1770ECBA876A7112663EF0198A344A65

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

☀️ Good morning!

Still trying to roll out of bed?

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to food

#Lunch
A strong correlation between diet and brain health.

Enhanced cognitive functions and increased grey matter.

Associations of dietary patterns with brain health from behavioral, neuroimaging, biochemical and genetic analyses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-024-00226-0

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

OMG...
Apparently, #NationalHighFiveDay is an actual thing...

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Predictions are considered important features in sensory perception

Sense of Smell Relies on Predictive Coding More Than Vision

Olfactory categorization is shaped by a transmodal cortical network for evaluating perceptual predictions
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/03/29/JNEUROSCI.1232-23.2024

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Cell-type-resolved somatic mosaicism can uncover lineage relationships governing the development of the human forebrain.

Cell-type-resolved mosaicism reveals clonal dynamics of the human forebrain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07292-5

MU_Peter, 1 month ago to random

Identifying the Last Universal Common Ancestor′s protein domains resolves the order in which the amino acids were recruited into the genetic code
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.13.589375v1

Resolves the order in which the amino acids were recruited into the genetic code

MU_Peter, 2 months ago to random

The first account of the presence of Pleistocene hominins in Eyvanekey, Semnan Province

Evidence of Pleistocene hominin landscapes in Eyvanekey, Iran, and implications for the Northern Dispersal Corridor
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/evidence-of-pleistocene-hominin-landscapes-in-eyvanekey-iran-and-implications-for-the-northern-dispersal-corridor/79F83AB0A4EC9C7C417BAE7EBDD15619

MU_Peter, 2 months ago to random

Microplastics present in archaeological sediment.

MPs may impact scientific value and preservation of deposits

The contamination of in situ archaeological remains:
A pilot analysis of microplastics in sediment samples using μFTIR
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724000755