Stone Age Herbalist
After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die.
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'Why is Chinese civilisation more like the Mayan than Mesopotamian?" - some thoughts on the development of Chinese culture over time from the archaeologist K.C Chang. https://t.co/...
Buddha statue discovered in 2nd century AD Egyptian city. The temple at Berenike also showed Sanskrit inscriptions and coins from the Satavahanas. https://t.co/AFtoiYxGKg
A quick thread on what's happening in Haiti: Hard to know where to begin, but let's pick 2019, the year Haiti was supposed to have parliamentary elections. https://t.co/adKqLmfE0...
In 2015 a pair of orcas - Port & Starboard - arrived in Cape Town and began hunting local sharks, surgically targeting the liver. The great whites fled, causing a collapse in marin...
Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, colonial govts in India and North America actively discouraged and banned two ceremonies which had one thing in common. The suspension...
Why did a type of Peruvian bark become the most important military drug for centuries, enable Europeans to colonise Africa and found the anti-malaria drug industry? Let's take a...
What if you launched a war against your neighbours, not to gain land or treasure, but to forcibly create new people? The Iroquois Wars for Mourning, Grief, Revenge and Beavers in...
What if your religion required you to be eaten by vultures after you died, but all the vultures suddenly disappeared? A look at the twilight of contemporary Zoroastrianism and In...
**The Michelsberg Culture** The collapse of the Early Neolithic LBK led to the rise of new regional pastoral cultures which reached further into the last hunter-gatherer areas of...
Ok, wild speculation time. There's an old theory that the Xiongnu Confederation were led by a Native American Athabaskan group who back-migrated into Siberia. Yes, I will elabo...
New DNA study reveals two ancestral streams into Britain, but only one survived. Let's break down a story of skull cups, ice age hunters and the emergence of the British Mesolithic...
Did the ancients have any concept of archaeology? A thread https://t.co/0FcmVFJPJA