"One of my must sees was to visit the Pokemon Fossil Museum, a traveling exhibit that showcases fabricated life-sized skeletons and models of prehistoric Pokemon alongside casts of the real dinosaurs and other prehistoric animal fossils they're based on."
#Prehistoric times are not my current focus, but I am a bit surprised about the general statement regarding the invention of art on earth:
"...invented by our species some 40,000 years ago. Instead, we have increasingly compelling evidence of artistry in other ancient hominins."
I remember a documentary, at least 5 years ago, where the making of art by #Neanderthals was not in question at all. Also, there was interbreeding b/w them and our species...
Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head — and survived both procedures. The discovery comes after scientists analyzed a skull that was unearthed in a Copper Age burial site in Spain. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/OZmo1M #Science#CopperAge#PreHistoric#Archeology
Stonehenge under gales & a lowering sky today, sheep grazing on it. Prehistory is more important than ever at times when the roar & clamour of now seems to drown us. To stand with the megaliths and barrows, their cultural urgency in Neolithic Britain dissolved into monumental uncertainty, relic & grazing status, is to understand the absurd futility of lines on maps.
Hey, folks of the #fediverse will y'all indulge me in my special interest and talk to me about dinosaurs, please? I wanna know what your favorite dinosaurs are and why and any other fun facts or anything really you wanna tell me about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, actually, I like prehistoric animals in general, so if there's an extinct mammal you'd rather comment about, I'm down for this too. #Prehistoric#dinosaurs
Excavations at a rock shelter have revealed that humans lived in high and remote regions of what is now Spain during the coldest part of the last glacial period, between 21,400 and 15,100 years ago.
High-altitude regions are colder and more challenging than low-lying zones, but even so, the plateau probably “hosted a relatively dense human settlement”, says Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño at the University of Alcalá in Spain.
In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...
Le menhir de la Thiemblais just outside the town of St-Samson-sur-Rance in Ille-et-Villaine in Brittany. It has relief carvings all over it, although they’re quite difficult to see except in certain lights. In my fourth picture, you can just make out a carving of a looped cross. It’s a very impressive stone weighing around 150 tonnes and at around 8 metres in length—despite the 45 degree angle!
A recent study published in the journal Science found that humans were nearly wiped out in an "ancestral bottleneck" event 800,000 years ago. This event lasted nearly 120,000 years before the population recovered.
During this time period, it was estimated that there were only roughly 1280 breeding individuals during this time period.
Behold the world’s oldest sandals, buried in a “bat cave” over 6,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...