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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
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I very much enjoy Paleolithic/Neolithic studies but I'm not seeing the value add.
For instance, we're learning that folk tales often have a basis in very old stories, which may have some factual ingredients from pre-history. That I can get in to. We're learning that the "out of Africa" origin theory may not hold water. So many concrete advances in human history - I'm not sure we need a contextual framework other than the one we've derived from successful inquiry.
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humanity changed very much after leaving Africa, I think it's more like the 'human variety' that came from Africa was more adaptable, think along the lines 280,000 generations, some say ALL humanity came out of Africa. personally I lean towards humanity came out of Africa in several 'waves' establishing populations is accessible areas. it has been suggested that populations move along longitude when possible to retain as much 'biosphere similarity' as possible.
as populations were established, isolated by generations, new populations came out of Africa as climate change reshaped natural barriers, to eventually produce the 'humanity' we are now by interbreeding and extinction.
I've come to suspect the demons and evil gods perhaps are from the tales of 'serial killers' from days of yore.... what else could you think if you were out in the woods and came across some serial killer slaughter hanging in trees etc.?
and definitely we all have cultural DNA. my grandmother once told me a 'blue joke' that began with 'in the old days men didn't wear pants' which is very true if you were Celt from Ireland. "Celtic clothing for both women and men was wrap around skirts, tunics, or long one piece dresses or robes and wool was the material most often used"
"The oldest depictions of Celtic Clothing I've found come from around 500 BCE from the area of modern Austria.Examples below;
Celtic clothing on Scythian borders - From the drawings it looks like they wore tight fitting pants or tights, and a tunic that actually looks like a suit jacket.
It's a long shirt with the front bottom that curved back to the tails. Their shoes had upturned toes. The women seem to be wearing highly decorated skirts or long tunics, hard to tell. Celtic Clothing from grave sites tell us a Chieftain, found at Hochdorf, shows the same style as above but with it an unusual preserved conical hat with fine punched patterns, made of birch-bark. Salt miners wore the same type of Celtic clothing with lower quality cloth and less colour with the same conical hats made of animal fur.
Celt-Iberic Celtic Clothingha - men wore tunics of mid-thigh length with a wide decorated belt at the waist. Women are wearing elaborate Celtic headdresses and tunics with checkered trim, and sometimes a very wide ruffle at the bottom of a hem or skirt called a flounce about 4 - 5" wide.ha Belts worn by the Celt-Iberians of early Christian period were wide and decorated with metal plaques."
the value added is the understanding of how and why you think and consider the things you do. why you move and look like you do. humanity has been shaped by the earths climate and volcanic events. from white skin to help in producing vitamin d to over sized chest among the natives to the Andes in South America.
your basic thought structure or OS is the culmination of what 300,000 or so generations? mother telling babies , daddy telling sons, from hunter gatherers to agriculture to rockets to mars. we have other ways to parse information and new paradigms to work with yet under the hood, well you know, same old same old :)
personally I think it's very important to understand yourself and all of us from this perspective.
I have no idea why, yet for some reason a beast of the field one day suddenly though, 'it's me, I'm here'... then .....
