@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com
2026-03-07 08:57 UTC
I want to tackle this somewhat, because it annoys the hell out of me. So I've been hearing white supremacists have started being smug about Aurignacian peoples in now southern Germany developing protocuneiform around 43-34ka; the paper for that discovery is here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123 #History #Anthropology (1/12)
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2026-03-07 08:57
Firstly, the Aurignacians were the first anatomically modern humans (AMH) to settle in the area. Their culture or more accurately technocomplex lasted for roughly 14,000 years and gave us some amazing artefacts, including anatomically correct drawings and carvings, the first definite flutes and something more symbolic/folkloric like Löwenmensch. (2/12)