[SunkenCiv]

Authors: Michael Petraglia, Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University; Mahmoud Abbas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University; Zhongping Lai, Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University. Disclosure statement: Zhongping Lai receives funding from the China Natural Science Foundation.

Mahmoud Abbas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University

[Openurmind]

Wait? There were no roads to control the flow of traffic? :)

[cuz1961]

Secular humanist Darwinist cultists academia’s motto :

” proffessing ourselves wise we become fools “

[dfwgator]

So there goes my chance to say I am an “African-American” and collect reparations.

[Flag_This]

”Our findings from sedimentary sections ranging 5 to 12 metres in thickness showed ecosystem fluctuations over time, including cycles of dry and humid environments.”

Sounds like the climate changed or something.

[Carry_Okie]

I'm becoming really tired of the term, "hunter gatherer," being certain that things were more complicated than that. If ants can manage which seeds they bring to the surface and plant, so aboriginal humans capable of making stone tools would be entirely capable of manipulating vegetation and animals to some significant degree. Caves would certainly be attractive for multigenerational habitation. One would think people would learn to manipulate plants for tools or food thereabout. Etc. Hell, I have found proto-agricultural plots on our land, and identified their likely purpose of arrangement just from making it possible for the seed to express.

IOW anthropology, botany, and archaeology need to work together on an experimental basis more than I have seen. The process might develop new means of identifying pre-historic land use patterns.

[newfreep]

The science is settled...

“It started long ago in the Garden of Eden
When Adam said to Eve, baby, you’re for me
So come on baby, let’s start today, come on baby, let’s play
The game of love, love, la la la la la love”
- Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

[nicollo]

How many times over that period was the Red Sea either mud or sand? I’d say more than a few.