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Anthropology

eppur_se_muova

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5. All based on the earliest evidence THAT WE KNOW OF -- potentially subject to revision every time a new dig is opened.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2025, 01:18 PM

Mar 18

Given that the glaciers retreated as the climate warmed up, I'd suspect a change in vegetation had a lot to do with it. Changes in vegetation may be linked to the die-off of large mammals, particularly cold-adapted animals like wooly mammoths and rhinos. There have been attempts in recent years to clone living mammoths from fossil DNA, but it's not clear if such animals could graze successfully on modern plants.

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The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 18 OP

IDK, but a few thousand years doesn't sound like "at the same time". OAITW r.2.0 Mar 18 #1

no it really isn't. (and this is big, big, big !!) stopdiggin Mar 18 #3

100th monkey effect SheltieLover Mar 18 #2

I often wondered about this exboyfil Mar 18 #4

All based on the earliest evidence THAT WE KNOW OF -- potentially subject to revision every time a new dig is opened. eppur_se_muova Mar 18 #5

A professor once said that, given the changes agriculture brought about EverHopeful Mar 18 #6

"Tricked into it by plants." I agree. c-rational Mar 18 #7