Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition (ca. 8000-4000 B.C.E.) An early series of hunting-gathering-fishing groups participating in a shared marine hunting tradition. One of North America's lesser known cultures. I'm likely going to remake this one with new icons. Need to design those first, though.

The surface of Mars: if, like Earth, 71% of its surface area was covered with water.

The concept of adding additional parts to the dugout base of boats is at least as old as the Early Neolithic. I also wonder if the transversal reinforcements carved in the canoes were inspired by other types of boats with frames, such as skin boats.

One big problem regarding maps depicting human migrations is the assumed graduality and continuity. Authors depict the movements as slow, gradual, and constant, perhaps imagining people moving only a few kilometers each lifetime, in a gradual expansion that the people of the time likely barely even realised. In such an illustatration (left) it often looks like a blob that grows larger and larger in all directions with Geographic Continuity all the way. This is of course wrong, and not how humans migrated at all. Investigating settlement archaeology and c14 dating, Its clear that Humans migrated in controlled, conscious bursts, reaching entirely new areas within a single generation. Entire tribes of families set out into consciously chosen basins, valley or plateaus, reaching them within a single lifetime and ignoring the less fertile land on the way. From thereon, they would gradually move out into the less immediatly attractive land, with different tribes breaking off and forming new exclaves as the population grew, repeating the process. These migrations were often massive and happened in the span of a few generations, such as is evident with the Corded Ware migration, which saw its people reach the Baltics, Poland, Denmark, Germany and parts of Russia in just a hundred years, and from thereon, its descendant, the Bell Beakers, reached Brittain, France, Iberia and Italy in a hundred years or even less again in a seperate burst. (The maps below are illustrative and totally arent based on the Indo European migrations at all)

Maps of Yhaplo R1b1's range in the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and modern eras. A common misconception is that it didn't become widespread until the "Yamnaya" expansions in 5,000 BP. Not true. It's been widespread for at least 14,000 years.

We do not sell these maps, they are specifically commissioned by archaeologists and enthusiasts. This dweeb is losing his mind over a tool that is going to be free and community-driven, and allow experts to check and verify the work. This is the second person attempting to blackmail and extort us into silence in just a week. An active case is being built against the former party, who also stole from us. I can only imagine why this guy is here.

Thank you very much to the amazing artist @Re_my_06 for the beautiful reconstructions of the enormous Nebelivka temple or whatever it is. If you're not following, you must do so. Check it out: x.com/Re_my_06/status/187409…

Hopefully our upcoming GIS editor/inspector/grand timeline will shed even more light and interest on this

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This week Sky in the UK aired an English version of a French documentary about James Dean that first aired in December. I was shocked by how similar its themes were to my 2024 book "Jimmy," right down to Sky using almost the same wording I used in my conclusion.

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Neolithic Europeans built the largest settlements on Earth. Within them were enormous megastructures whose purpose remains one of the great mysteries of prehistoric Europe. Were they temples, assembly halls, elite residences, or something else? Please like and share! Cheers!

STOP! 🛑 Whatever your plans are today, you must CANCEL them. You must watch this video today. You must be LATE for that thing you have on. Give your BABY an iPad to play with. Make your GRANDMA get the bus instead of driving her. Until then, stay on HIGH ALERT. Thank you.

Around 5000bc, when the LBK culture falls, the gene pool in central europe becomes extremely heterogenous, with samples being all over the place on PCA with varying amounts of WHG and ANF ancestry. After 4500bc this stabilizes into the Ethnogenisation of new cultures such as Chasseen, Michelsberg, Lengyel and TRB, which are all dominated by Hunter Gatherer Lineages. The British Neolithic is derived from Chasseen and Michelsberg groups, where their line of I2a underwent a large founder effect. There are various weird discrepancies in the specific clades of I2a however, for example Wartberg having a large amount of I2a2, which is extremely rare in other groups. Other discrepancies are the dominance of I2a1-l161 in Funnelbeaker, and the dominance of I2a1-l801 in GAC, which is Autosomally identical to Funnelbeaker and materially derived from it. The Italian, British, French and Iberian Late Neolithic groups are unified through a common dominance of i2a1-m223, which is however a seperate clade from the I2a1 of the preceeding, and ancestral to all of these, Cardial Culture (I2a1-l161, the same as Funnelbeaker). There are many things that could have happened here, such as individual founder effects or contributions from local hunter gatherers. Singleing out exactly happened would only be possible through high-coverage IBD connections.

What goes on in here? In the past, almost literally nothing. This area of Germany has almost no recorded settlemenst throughout the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Depicted are sites of the: -1: Michelsberg and Wartberg cultures (collectively covering 4500-2800bc) -2: Corded Ware culture (3000-2200bc) -3: Bell Beaker Culture (2600-2200bc) -4: West Germanic Tribes (RWG Culture) (0ad-350ad) This area was incredibly forested during prehistory and hard to access due to how hilly it is, as well as being surrounded by the Fulda Lowlands, the fertile Rhine valley and the Lippe Basin, which are all very attractive population sinks.

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America didn’t become one market all at once. It arrived in the mail. Before that, distance had weight. A family in Chicago could walk past store windows, read ads, compare prices, and choose between merchants. A family on an Indiana farm might have one store close enough to matter, one counter to stand at, one shelf to choose from, and one price written in the ledger. If it felt too high, what exactly were you supposed to do? Spend half a day getting to another town? Wait until the next trip? Go without? Not every merchant was dishonest. Most were simply nearby, and nearby used to have a kind of authority we barely understand now. Isolation has always been expensive. Aaron Montgomery Ward saw that. It’s true that Sears would become the name people remembered and that Amazon would make the same expectation feel instant. But Montgomery Ward helped teach Americans something so ordinary now that we barely recognize it as a revolution. In 1872, he looked at rural America and saw people living inside a smaller economy than the rest of the country. Same nation. Different reach. So he attacked the problem with paper. A catalog. Fixed prices. Clear descriptions. Goods delivered by rail and mail. No guessing whether the town price was fair. No waiting on whatever happened to be stocked that season. Tools, fabric, watches, stoves, dishes, harnesses, furniture, school clothes, toys. The wider American market folded into a book and landed on kitchen tables. Ward believed if something better exists somewhere else, you should be able to reach it. For most of history, that was not true. The company lasted for generations, then got swallowed by the very world it helped make. Bigger retailers. Malls. Big-box stores. Then the internet. By 2001, Montgomery Ward was gone but the idea wasn’t. For most of history, where you lived decided the size of your world. Then one day a catalog landed on a kitchen table, and somebody miles from the nearest city realized the world was larger than the road outside their door.

lol, a pseudoarchaeologist is accusing me of "not being a scientist" I have peer reviewed publications in The Journal of Archaeological SCIENCE & Quaternary SCIENCE Reviews. And a paper coming out soon in Archaeological and Anthropological SCIENCES These guys are clowns

Fixed chart, the Cardial Chart included some Nuragic and Chasseen (Middle Neolithic) samples that were labeled as Cardial erroneously due to their PCA proximity. I2a dominates interestingly in this new version, with a cutoff point at ~4500bc for Cardial samples

Y-DNA of European Neolithic populations, primarily the Cardial Culture in the Mediterranean, Linearbandkeramik in Central Europe, Starcevo Culture in Serbia and Pannonia, Greek Early Neolithic and the Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture in Romania and Ukraine.

🌧️ Rain meridian of the United States.