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MU_Peter, 9 days ago to random

Not... is not what you think

The analysis of negation provides a steppingstone to understand how the human brain represents changes of meaning over time.

Negation mitigates rather than inverts the neural representations of adjectives
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002622

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