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Science is not supposed to make me cry, dammit!
Id love to see a recreation of the dog. Its hard to get a sense of scale but the head looks quite big. Also:
Along with the dog, a small number of microchips were found which can be interpreted as grave gifts.
Microchips? Is that like chips of flint napping or were the ancient alien dudes on to something?
the original text has it as “mikrospån”, which should be translated as microblade, a 3-5cm flint blade used to make microliths.
Ah thanks, i kind of forgot Firefox translated it for me. That makes much mores sense.
Bro how else would anthropoligists know the dog had an owner. Duh
I’m getting real jurassic bark vibs here
Aboriginal oral histories date back at least another 2000 years before this.
Well now I’m curious as to how they date oral histories
Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events
Those dudes survived a volcanic eruption that wiped out half of humanity. I guess they still remember it?
People are still talking about some flood that probably happened at some point in pre-history.
I strongly believe that it happened. It doesn’t need to be a “flood of biblical dimensions” but just one terrible enough to convince a few early tribes that it was the end of the world as we know it.
That’s mankind lore
I feel like the myth existing in cultures around the world from Mesopotamia to the Americas gives it credence. It makes sense that a “world-changing event” would work its way into various disparate cultures myths.
Or it’s because people all around the world always lived next to water and encountered floods.
First half really had me expecting you asking about blow jobs
I once dated someone with an extensive oral history.
Edit: still very cool & I’m sure they loved that dog like I do mine.
Same as a child for many even into this day
My dogs are my family 100%. I’ll mourn them when they’re gone like I’d mourn any other family member. Except for that one cousin. Fuck that guy.
Yeah I do believe we all have one bad seed to deal with
Edit: wrote bullshit, but the link is still interesting.
History as an academic term usually goes hand in hand with writing, not civilization. When I write, I refer to earlier periods as “prehistoric.” This is because historians primarily use written text and similar as their subject of study.
A family?
