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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 22:50:32 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Sommetimes, to do archaeology, you have to do archaeology on the archaeologists!

   [ . . . ] Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.

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   "He was able to tell us exactly where to dig," [Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa] said of [Huffman].

   bbc.com/news/science-environme…

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 23:22:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      The story that revealed this metastory is fascinating in itself:

      Homo Erectus is observed to have disappeared from Africa around 500 ky ago, from China around 400 ky ago, but in Indonesia on Java, they seem to have been around until around 100 ky, perhaps even later. Sapiens didn't arrive on Java until around 50 ky ago, so there was nobody around to push them out.

   2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 23:33:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      I guess to be accurate, if you're studying the bones of erectus rather than sapiens, you're in paleontology rather than archaeology. But archeology archaeology sounds more fun than paleontology archaeology.