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Cinnabar from Mine Siele, Tuscany, Italy. Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Credit: Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart, CC-BY 4.0
The world's oldest mercury poisoning revealed in Copper Age Iberia by University of Seville

1 posted on 11/22/2021 11:29:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Phoenician Sailors on shore leave.............................


3 posted on 11/22/2021 11:32:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

One has to wonder whether the study was skewed a bit, albeit unintentionally. What bodies were preserved enough for this analysis? Perhaps only the privileged/wealthy...so perhaps these results are not realistic for the population as a whole?


6 posted on 11/22/2021 11:46:46 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SunkenCiv

As I understand it, a similar pattern as in the present Great Britain - Neolithic y chromosomes just find of ended all at once. What were the advantages of Yamnaya (predecessor to corded ware culture) other than just equine animal husbandry? Is this Iberian shift associated with R1a or Robert? Many interesting questions.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 12:34:16 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s why I don’t use bronze.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 1:43:04 PM PST by DannyTN
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> Testing for biological relatedness, the researchers found that males are on average more closely related to other people at the site, indicating that the group was likely patrilineally structured. Such a social organization could explain the stark reduction of the Y-lineage diversity.

I for one would not necessarily associate this particular phenomenon with LGBTQ...


18 posted on 11/23/2021 5:47:46 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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