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1/ An evening thread! Yesterday #Pollen next its beetles #Palaeoentomology - preserved in #peat fragments of bugs (wing cases, head capsules etc) are difficult to ID but provide key evidence of #Palaeoenvironments - #Prehistoric #woodland, #Biodiversity changes+extinctions! 
2/Dr Eileen Reilly (photo 1, r) passed away too young. Her #Palaeoentomological work was groundbreaking. Demonstrated presence of beetles in #prehistory now extinct/rare in 🇮🇪 many associated with wood/trees (Saproxylic), 'Urwald relict' group (see table!)
3/E.g: photos 1+2 #Archaeological excavations, Lisheen Bog, Co.Tipp. Samples from Bronze Age oak wood plank trackway, contained remains of Prostomis mandibularis+other bugs. Primary #woodland present in this period despite clearance/farming.
“The Tenth Descent—Husbandry:
“The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness Allowed the “Domestication of Animals”
is Ch 10
of *Prodigal Human*
by Michael Adzema
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK...
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“The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness Allowed the “Domestication of Animals”
is Ch 10
of *Prodigal Human*
by Michael Adzema
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK...
sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig…
PH 10/1
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “ …enslavement of our family in Nature was an abominable affront to their nobility & was a scar on human character:… Our increasing drive to control made us abominations in Nature.” []
READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology
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READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology
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“[Chapter 9 text begins:] *Out of Anxiety, Humans Cheat in the Game of Life*
“In due time, this time not long at all, after we humans “conquered” the Flora Empire on Earth, we began “conquering” fellow planetmates of the Fauna Kingdom.”
THREAD drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH…
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“In due time, this time not long at all, after we humans “conquered” the Flora Empire on Earth, we began “conquering” fellow planetmates of the Fauna Kingdom.”
THREAD drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH…
PH 10/3
“The Ninth Descent—Farming:
“The Agrarian “Revolution” Was the Direst Development”
is Chapter 9
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK...
READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #devolution #psychology
PH 9/1
“The Agrarian “Revolution” Was the Direst Development”
is Chapter 9
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK...
READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #devolution #psychology
PH 9/1
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “Yes, we turned life into work, when it could have been play.”\
“…we lost the magic of living. We focused, because of fear, on the quantity of said existence instead of the quality of it….” []
THREAD… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devo #psychology
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“…we lost the magic of living. We focused, because of fear, on the quantity of said existence instead of the quality of it….” []
THREAD… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devo #psychology
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[Chapter 9 text begins:] “Returning now to human’s devolution in the course of our prehistory,..”
READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #farming #anthro #agrarian #evolution #birth #agriculture #perinatal #primal #psyche #consciousness #culture
PH 9/3
READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #farming #anthro #agrarian #evolution #birth #agriculture #perinatal #primal #psyche #consciousness #culture
PH 9/3
“The Eighth Descent—Murder:
““Kill or Be Killed”—Our Delusion of Scarcity Made for Murder”
is Chapter 8
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK... READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #devolution #anthro
PH 8/1
““Kill or Be Killed”—Our Delusion of Scarcity Made for Murder”
is Chapter 8
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK... READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #devolution #anthro
PH 8/1
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…in early gatherer-hunter times, yes, we had plenty for everyone. But with fear rose anxiety over one’s ability to survive, thus competition over resources—” []
READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology #murder #anthro #violence
PH 8/2
READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology #murder #anthro #violence
PH 8/2
[] “…a competition which was not needed—& then the very creation of what one was trying to avoid: The possibility that one might need to kill or one would be killed.” []
READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #murder #anthro #violence #evolution
PH 8/3
READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #murder #anthro #violence #evolution
PH 8/3
“The Seventh Descent—Hunting:
“Killing of Planetmates & Eating Flesh Began Our Descent to Savagery & the Apocalypse Today”
is Chapter 7
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK... sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig…
PH 7/1
“Killing of Planetmates & Eating Flesh Began Our Descent to Savagery & the Apocalypse Today”
is Chapter 7
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema.
READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK... sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig…
PH 7/1
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…increasingly separated from Nature, from feeling, & from clear apprehension of reality, humans became insensitive.” []
READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology #hunting #anthro #birth #evolution #perinatal #primal #psyche
PH 7/2
READ BOOK… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #devolution #psychology #hunting #anthro #birth #evolution #perinatal #primal #psyche
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[] “In becoming more numbed to their empathy & fellow feeling, they became inured enough to the spilling of blood, so that making life & death decisions over fellow planetmates became easier.” []
READ BOOK> drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #hunting #anthro
PH 7/3
READ BOOK> drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #devolution #psychology #hunting #anthro
PH 7/3
I've been working on another Twitter thread - not because @netflix gives a stuff and the Hancock followers will keep being conspiracy idiots. I'm doing this b.c I care about #archaeology and #Malta. Now @FlintDibble has (independently) got a head start here, tis good. Go read.
Good. Now let's focus specifically on #Malta and #prehistory. Let's start with a location map because it's relevant - note we're at the southernmost tip of Europe and pretty much on the doorstep of North Africa. When we say Malta, we mean the entire archipelago.
Malta is the bigger island, the middle one is Comino and above that we have Gozo. And other bits and pieces all around. But I'll focus on Malta and Gozo - or Għawdex to give it the proper name.
Chapter 6
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“The Sixth Descent—Mistrust:
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READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #birth #psychology #BasicMistrust #perinatal #BasicTrust #devolution #parenting
PH 6/1
of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“The Sixth Descent—Mistrust:
READ THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK
READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #birth #psychology #BasicMistrust #perinatal #BasicTrust #devolution #parenting
PH 6/1
Chapter 6 is subtitled,
“Mistrust of Nature, Mistrust of Divine Providence...
“Our Experience of Birth Determines Ever Afterward Our View of the World”
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THREAD… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #birth #psychology #BasicMistrust #psyche
PH 6/2
“Mistrust of Nature, Mistrust of Divine Providence...
“Our Experience of Birth Determines Ever Afterward Our View of the World”
READ THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK
THREAD… wp.me/pwMlb-3in #birth #psychology #BasicMistrust #psyche
PH 6/2
“[*Quotes/Highlights:*] “The cold, hard fact is that our experience of our birth—that is, the amount of pain & discomfort we experience in the process of delivery added to those first crucial moments & hours...” []
READ BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #birth #psychology
PH 6/3
READ BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1-dlEBH… #birth #psychology
PH 6/3
Chapter 14
of *Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Prenatal Suffocation Become Greed & Class War, PME 2:”
READ THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK
THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/psycho… #womb
PA 14/1
of *Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide*
by Michael Adzema, is titled,
“Prenatal Suffocation Become Greed & Class War, PME 2:”
READ THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK
THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/psycho… #womb
PA 14/1
Chapter 14 is subtitled:
“Prenatal Matrix of Human Evil 2...
“Gasping, Suffocation, Drowning, Being “Cut Off” Become Greed, Oppression, Conformity...
““They’re Sucking the Very ‘Life Blood’ Out of Us!””
READ BOOK> wp.me/p1n96g-3FZ #psychology #prenatal #anthro
PA 14/2
“Prenatal Matrix of Human Evil 2...
“Gasping, Suffocation, Drowning, Being “Cut Off” Become Greed, Oppression, Conformity...
““They’re Sucking the Very ‘Life Blood’ Out of Us!””
READ BOOK> wp.me/p1n96g-3FZ #psychology #prenatal #anthro
PA 14/2
[Quotes/highlights:] “The timelessness of prenatal experience at this point—when not getting enough air—feels horrific, an unending nightmare. This part contributes to human ideas of places of forever, endless suffering, for example, hell.” []
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A few words about the prehistory of Crete regarding the dialogue below... There is a relevant bibliography for what I am mentioning!
#Crete #Prehistory #Neolithic #AegeanBronzeAge #Minoans #Mycenaeans #Anatolia
#Crete #Prehistory #Neolithic #AegeanBronzeAge #Minoans #Mycenaeans #Anatolia
1/ The Neolithic package in Crete appears for the first time around 7000 BC. in Knossos with a community of settlers from Western Anatolia, which did not know the technology of pottery (Pre-Pottery Neolithic).
2/The interesting thing is that recent surveys have shown that within the community, chipped stone objects were found that bear characteristics of the Aegean Mesolithic tradition,which means that this short-lived community came into contact with local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
#Solstice #Sunrise at the Barrow - a meditation on time, what litte, we know of #AngloSaxon "#Litha", and on what #livinghistory #history and #archaeology is truly "for". 🧵
Very early yesterday morning members Æd and AlexP travelled to @SoultonHall @SacredStonesLtd Soulton Long Barrow to experience a unique moment in the solar calendar which, though concerned with the reckoning of time, is essentially universal and #timeless. 1/32
The Midsummer Solstice has always been a significant moment in the year, across many cultures, as far back as deep #prehistory. In Britain our landscape is dotted with #stoneage #neolithic and #bronzeage #prehistoric monuments which bear witness to this. 2/32
Here’s a look at some more of our finds recently featured in the ‘The world of Stonehenge’ exhibition publication, this time from the unusual ‘Boscombe Bowmen’ grave which we excavated 600 metres north of the ‘Amesbury Archer’s’ grave at Amesbury Down, near Stonehenge.
The communal grave contained the remains of nine, possibly ten, individuals including one infant (cremated), two children, one teenager and five adult males.
#wessexarchaeology #wessexarch #stonehenge #stonehengelandscape #flint #flintarrowheads #prehistory #lateneolithic
#wessexarchaeology #wessexarch #stonehenge #stonehengelandscape #flint #flintarrowheads #prehistory #lateneolithic
Much of the bone had been curated and redeposited, placed in bundles within the grave lying around (generally just below) and – in the case of a few random bones – above the in situ (articulated) remains of one of the adult males.
#wessexarchaeology #wessexarch #stonehenge
#wessexarchaeology #wessexarch #stonehenge
Very happy to see this great collaborative work out! Jebel Sahaba deserved a reassessment: nature.com/articles/s4159…
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Africa #Anthropology #violence
@INEE_CNRS @PACEA_Bordeaux @umr5608_traces @britishmuseum
What is new? 🧵 1/17
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Africa #Anthropology #violence
@INEE_CNRS @PACEA_Bordeaux @umr5608_traces @britishmuseum
What is new? 🧵 1/17
⛏️🧹Discovered and excavated during the 60s, published in 1968 by Pr. Wendorf, Jebel Sahaba cemetery has become the emblem of organized prehistoric warfare. However, the nature of the cemetery, of the bone lesions and of the associated lithics were never reassessed since (2/17)
🔬Between 2013 and 2019, with Marie-Hélène Dias-Meirinho @UTJeanJaures, we conducted a thorough macroscopic and microscopic analysis of every bone from the 61 individuals, currently housed @britishmuseum, that were buried in the cemetery (3/17)
🗞️New paper!
" Interconnected Magdalenian societies as revealed by the circulation of whale bone artefacts in the Pyreneo-Cantabrian region” published in Quaternary Science Reviews 🐳
Let’s open a thread! 👇
#Archaeology #prehistory #palaeolithic #magdalenian
#FossilFriday
" Interconnected Magdalenian societies as revealed by the circulation of whale bone artefacts in the Pyreneo-Cantabrian region” published in Quaternary Science Reviews 🐳
Let’s open a thread! 👇
#Archaeology #prehistory #palaeolithic #magdalenian
#FossilFriday
Around the Bay of Biscay, interactions between humans and whales are part of a multi-millennial (pre)history.
Until now, the early use of whale bone as a raw material was mainly documented in the #Magdalenian Pyrenean collections. What about the neighbouring Cantabrian region?
Until now, the early use of whale bone as a raw material was mainly documented in the #Magdalenian Pyrenean collections. What about the neighbouring Cantabrian region?
54 whale bone artefacts (essentially large finished weapons) were identified from 12 of the 64 sampled Cantabrian sites. @MuseosCant @gordailua @arkeologimuseoa @museodealtamira @MANArqueologico @MNCNcomunica
"You don't see radio changing gradually and suddenly become radar. #Darwin's theory doesn't work for #technology, and we have to make a new observation."
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention
"Novel technologies are constructed from existing technologies. These offer themselves as components for the construction of further technologies."
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention #technology #engineering #design
- W Brian Arthur at SFI today
#evolution #innovation #invention #technology #engineering #design
Unlike the two-parent #inheritance typical to (but not ubiquitous among) #complex organisms, #technology inherits features from n parents - a "vast ancestral #network" more like horizontal gene transfer networks in #bacteria.
W Brian Arthur on sumulating #invention on a chip:
W Brian Arthur on sumulating #invention on a chip:
