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Stone Age Seafood-Based Diet Was Full Of Toxic Metals
Forbes ^
| Leap Day, February 29, 2020
| David Bressan
Posted on 03/09/2020 1:43:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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- Recently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern humans were at the time the jewelry was made, 50,000 years ago. University of Bristol archaeologist Joao Zilhao, who led the project, told me about some other interesting discoveries he and his team made about Neanderthals. One concerns how they harvested shellfish for consumption... Note that the Neanderthals didn't wear their dinner discards, just as we don't today. (Or usually don't. Maybe someone out there has made a necklace out of last night's oyster or lobster remains.) The Neanderthals instead chose different shells based on beauty for use as jewelry/body ornamentation. These species included Pecten (pilgrim shell), Glycymeris (dog cockle) and Acanthocardia (Moroccan cockle). The shells accumulate on sea bottoms "where wave action throws them onto the beaches where Neanderthals could harvest them, must as you or I would when holidaying in the summer," Zilhao said. Getting back to the shellfish as food and not art, for consumers even today, shellfish pose challenges. As Zilhao and his team point out, "They rot very rapidly and must be eaten or cooked extremely fresh." By packaging the harvested shellfish in water-soaked algae, the Neanderthals helped to preserve the shellfish from the point of collection to the place where they ate them, such as Aviones Cave in Spain. This cave is right near the entrance of Cartagena harbor, so it provided "rooms" with a view as well as water resources. Algae remains were found among the shells within the cave. We always hear about the big game hunting talents of Neanderthals, but this new research suggests that at least some groups enjoyed surf and turf meals. Or surf one night and maybe turf the next.
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03/09/2020 1:43:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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03/09/2020 1:44:46 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
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03/09/2020 1:44:50 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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03/09/2020 1:45:06 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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03/09/2020 1:45:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Huh. I was told that mercury in fish was because of runoff from evil human industry...
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posted on
03/09/2020 1:45:58 PM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
To: Paine in the Neck
I don’t eat fish. They marinate in the putrid waters. Especially like the fish imported from china. I know what my beef and chickens eat.
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03/09/2020 1:48:35 PM PDT
by
oldasrocks
(Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
To: SunkenCiv
cadmium? you mean the easter egg candies? yum
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03/09/2020 1:48:56 PM PDT
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teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
To: SunkenCiv
To: Paine in the Neck
Most of the mercury in the environment right now comes from those stupid fluorescent lights which are actually mercury vapor lights
These stupid curly cue pieces of crap which are all made in China , and have 40 to 300 mg of mercury vapor or gas inside those vacuum tubes, everybody just throwthem in the trash and all that mercury gets into the environment
And you thought I was gonna blame the big bad coal industry didnt you?
Oh and by the way the vaccine industry is pure evil
Talk about injecting people with mercury!
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posted on
03/09/2020 1:49:34 PM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: SunkenCiv
I am wondering if the same process - breakdown of the metals in rocks through long erosion of the rocks via water - is true for deep groundwater that supplies wells used for human water supplies.
It at least makes me wonder how well and how often residential well water is tested, in general, on average.
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03/09/2020 1:54:55 PM PDT
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Wuli
To: SunkenCiv
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03/09/2020 1:55:07 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Like they had the luxury of thinking, “how many times have I had tuna this week?”
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03/09/2020 1:55:46 PM PDT
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aynrandfreak
(Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
To: SunkenCiv
They were as smart as we are; maybe smarter. They just didn’t know as much.
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03/09/2020 1:56:00 PM PDT
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Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks
During the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago, sea levels were more than 900 feet (300 meters) lower, exposing large parts of the shelf areas of the continents Weathering and erosion caused rocks to break down, releasing heavy metals into the soil. At the end of the last ice-age, between about 14,000 and 6,000 years ago, the sea levels rebounded. The previously exposed areas were inundated and the metals became dissolved in the seawater. Over time the heavy metals will accumulate in the marine food chain, with humans acting as apex predator and getting the highest potentially toxic levels.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is a bit of a reach. This level of toxicity had to come from huge amounts of toxins being leached into the earths water, but more likely would have to come from precipitants out of the atmosphere. This could only come from explosions or large scale scouring of the earth by plasma gouging of the earth’s surface as described by Electric Universe theory:
https://www.everythingselectric.com/product/michael-steinbacher/
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03/09/2020 1:56:21 PM PDT
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Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: SunkenCiv
From this article I’ve drawn this conclusion: The higher the sea level, the lower levels of natural contaminants in sea food. Thus we have a benefit from the rising of the oceans.
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03/09/2020 1:56:44 PM PDT
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GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Paine in the Neck
Huh. I was told that mercury in fish was because of runoff from evil human industry.Yes, so they need to make this fit, without any proof. May I suggest that stone age man unknowingly used mercury to treat furs and syphilis, building a vast, now lost, industrial complex that imploded into itself due to global climate change caused by burning wood.
I don't have a degree in anthropology, but I can BS better than most of them.
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03/09/2020 1:57:46 PM PDT
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RubinBoomer
(PA for Trump 2020)
To: SunkenCiv
Neanderthals were MUCH healthier than we are today, they just didn’t live as long.
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03/09/2020 2:03:01 PM PDT
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Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: SunkenCiv
I doubt they lived long enough for it to have mattered.
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03/09/2020 2:03:19 PM PDT
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fso301
To: SunkenCiv
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03/09/2020 2:03:43 PM PDT
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GOP Poet
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