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500excf type r posted:Monkeys used a boat to go from Africa to south America 30 million years ago that's badass
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 14:07 |
Didn’t know that about monkeys.
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monkeys used coconut based sea chronometers to determine longitude
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i say swears online posted:lmao hell yeah really doubt that the picture was taken in 500 bc
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bedpan posted:really doubt that the picture was taken in 500 bc the evidence is right there idiot
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https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1663231538866143235
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short king
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So the Flintstones sex cave was true.
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i say swears online posted:lmao hell yeah why is the picture from the jersey shore post sandy
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i say swears online posted:lmao hell yeah Goddamn I love history
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Grevling posted:Goddamn I love history saw this on fb quote:It was from one band of these settlers, the Angles, that the name of England itself first emerged. Engla land' was the Viking description. It is characteristic of a country that, from the first century to the thirteenth century, was subject to almost continual foreign occupation.
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i found a chunk of history today, probably pre-modern because it was buried pretty deep in sandy clay![]() nice rock, you say? does a rock have a pitted working face, you fool? maybe they do but some smarty-pants professor told me to look for this pitting when looking at possible tools made of quartzite, since it's such a hard rock that it's difficult to shape and so a lot of tools just look like rocks otherwise ![]() ![]() it could have been the head of an adze or maul but more likely it was a really ergonomic hand hammer -- seriously this thing has great grip -- used by somebody hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of years ago to pound the living poo poo out of something, probably a foodstuff ![]() just living your best life camping beside an ancient river and using your COOL ROCK to smash open moose bones for the marrow while shooting the poo poo with your friends and chewing on some salmon jerky
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nice sex toy
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Looks like it was used for ritual purposes to me
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potato
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cool removing of an artifact from its context
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That is a nice rock, but also only a rock.
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i say swears online posted:saw this on fb Really the country should be named after the Saxons. Every time I read about precolonial (1066) England it’s always all about Saxons. Should be Saxland.
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Delthalaz posted:Really the country should be named after the Saxons. Every time I read about precolonial (1066) England it’s always all about Saxons. Should be Saxland.
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eat poo poo landhavers
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Delthalaz posted:Really the country should be named after the Saxons. Every time I read about precolonial (1066) England it’s always all about Saxons. Should be Saxland. Yes, and the wider global community speaking their language should be called Saxophones.
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English counties are pretty interesting like that: a lot of them were set up by the Anglo-Saxons and still have the same county towns and much the same borders as they did in the 10th century. These are the 'shire' counties: Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire etc. Then there's other counties like Cornwall and Kent which used to be dinky little kingdoms in their own right but ended up getting absorbed into the larger English political entity. I like to imagine an alternative Britain where England never happened and we ended up with Wessex in the south, Mercia covering the Midlands and Northumbria in the north of the island.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:cool removing of an artifact from its context oops i kind of didn't add enough context to make me not seem like a grave-robbing dingus. years ago my father got in contact with a curator at the Royal Alberta Museum on the phone, and they discussed the grooved hammer head that we had found. according to the curator (i think that was his position) he thought it was a cool find and we should donate it (we did and they redonated it to the local museum) but that stone tools in that area aren't unique enough to investigate any further than that. also they had basically no budget (because Alberta) was a further implication the land in question been used as a camp-site for a very long time, it's basically in the middle of a trail system used by first nations, métis, fur traders, and missionaries travelling between the big lakes of alberta and the major rivers. no permanent or semi-permanent settlements were built along this trail, just camp-sites scattered the whole way and there's been a lot of campers over the years. according to the museum guy you should note the location and depth where you found the object, if you can help it please don't disturb the site any further. i'm not digging anymore in that area so it's the best that can be done i guess. i found some bits of charcoal at the depth as well but i have no idea what an old campfire would look like it's probably just a rock but maybe a distant ancestor of mine picked up this fine potato rock, considered it, decided it to be stupid, and went back to thinking about some way to make pounding pemmican less tedious and maybe invent Tetris
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Pistol_Pete posted:I like to imagine an alternative Britain where England never happened me too
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Yes, and the wider global community speaking their language should be called Saxophones. ![]()
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A Buttery Pastry posted:given precedent, it should be sexland given precedent, it definitely shouldn't
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Tulip posted:Honestly produced one of the better Spartan quips too: one of the captors mocked (possibly with some disbelief) the Spartans with how all the REAL Spartans must have died from arrows so it was just the non-Spartiate who surrendered, to which a Spartan said "it'd be a pretty smart arrow to tell a noble from a commoner." They probably used an algorithm, like Obama did when he made sure that no civilians were harmed in his drone strikes.
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All the important Anglo-Saxon people and places were Saxons. Middlesex, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Norsex. The Angles had what, East Anglia? No important Angles in history, basically the irrelevant
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Everyone forgets the Jutes
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i will never acknowledge a jute
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Centuries of academic research into pre-Conquest England and to this day, nobody can say what a Jute even is.
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Delthalaz posted:All the important Anglo-Saxon people and places were Saxons. Middlesex, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Norsex. The Angles had what, East Anglia? No important Angles in history, basically the irrelevant this is Northumbria erasure
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well-behaved angles rarely make history
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Pistol_Pete posted:Centuries of academic research into pre-Conquest England and to this day, nobody can say what a Jute even is. Jute is an aboveground crop. The plant may be processed at a farmer's workshop to produce jute plant fiber thread. Some dwarves like jute plants for their fibrous stems.
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Delthalaz posted:All the important Anglo-Saxon people and places were Saxons. Middlesex, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Norsex. The Angles had what, East Anglia? No important Angles in history, basically the irrelevant I dunno, I think they're kinda acute
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Pistol_Pete posted:Centuries of academic research into pre-Conquest England and to this day, nobody can say what a Jute even is. A type of Saxon
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Let us also consult the only source dating from within like 300 years of the "Anglo"-Saxon invasion, Gildas:quote:Then all the councillors, together with that proud tyrant Gurthrigern [Vortigern], the British king, were so blinded, that, as a protection to their country, they sealed its doom by inviting in among them (like wolves into the sheep-fold), the fierce and impious Saxons, a race hateful both to God and men, to repel the invasions of the northern nations. Nothing was ever so pernicious to our country, nothing was ever so unlucky. What palpable darkness must have enveloped their minds-darkness desperate and cruel! Those very people whom, when absent, they dreaded more than death itself, were invited to reside, as one may say, under the selfsame roof. Clearly, little has changed. Where are the so-called ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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me arriving in albion: ![]()
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Jazerus posted:i will never acknowledge a jute
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