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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

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by tclancy

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Either I missed it or the author assumed we were both on the same page: GBY seems to be a spot on a river just north of the Sea of Galilee.
GBV continues to be the band, who are due to release albums with each of these names within the next five years.

by joenot443

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> The packed sediments were then transported to the laboratory for further sorting. A program of sediment sorting, that lasted over two decades, included the separation of different types of categories: ostracods, mollusks, reptiles, amphibians, micromammals, fish and macrobotanical remains, in addition to different types of small rocks.
Incredible. They didn’t find intact hunks of charcoal (obviously), but instead they _sorted through sediment_ to find grains which they then identified under a microscope.
Archaeology is such a cool field.

by kid64

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The whole idea of dependence on recurring natural fires always seemed suspect to me.

by SummSolutions

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Fascinating paper, providing great evidence that our ancestors were maximizing resources hundreds of thousands of years ago.

by l4tq3

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by onlyjanand

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by thunkle

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