lemoustier.bsky.social
Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
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Rep: PEW Literary
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(ahem ChâtelperroniEn)
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Bravo !
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There's almost always good stuff in the Supplementary Materials
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I don't know the precise geology, but it's a kind of chert
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We'd already eaten and followed the sound of music...
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Haha no evidence I know of for oysters, but other shellfish definitely on their menu (in some times and places)!
And I like to think that they'd have appreciated the geological elements of a good wine terroir
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With the shoes!!
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Thanks I did look through that but it didn't really have anything I could usefully find...
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Love this! Especially the long elk-ish face
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@clairemillington.bsky.social tagging you in the hope you might have more informed thoughts than me!?
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😭
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I mean is it something that changes with age, not that they are copying, but merely refining? Or do infants & juveniles also make clear rings?
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yes, but they must surely control the breath in some way, as we have to do with smoke rings, to create the vortex? Would be interesting to see if there is an age element, do they need to learn this?
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[the bar for assuming intentional *symbolic* activity vs. aesthetic behaviours in #Neanderthals is very high, for similar reasons]
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On the other hand, there is a fair bit of assumption here too: whales reproducing a functional behaviour in a new context because it makes sense to them, isn't the same as it being an intention to communicate or interact with onlooking humans
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Might actually listen to Radio 4 tomorrow morning just to hear how they report it
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How fascinating - hair bridle too. Poor pony looks pretty worn out though
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Add my + 90 Yr old grandmother!
This article really annoyed me too
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No but I love this entire sub-field of history and recently tried to find out the oldest animal name
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"peacefully"
Would be interested to know if this sort of thing has been attempted with all the news/media outlets which also published strong critiques
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wow what a location!!
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Aside from being unprofessional and unscientific, I find this tactic 100% unsurprising
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IIRC they were claiming they sounded different when they did the original press, but yes, to what degree it's possible to make a wolf sound different with those few genetic changes doesn't change what it's definitely not going to sound like i.e. an extinct other-genus animal!
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not for them
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I assume it sounds a tiny bit different or they wouldn't be bothering with the PR. But it still won't necessarily sound "like a dire wolf"
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good lord. Time to go back to handwritten in-class essays/projects?
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What?!