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Skull Hill — Mars
Skull Hill is a rock on Mars, the name that it was dubbed with, found in the ridge of a crater that is unlike the surrounding rock. In essence, the rock is puzzling — specifically how it got on the […]
Continue ReadingIsin-Larsa Period (c.2060 – 1818 BCE)
The Isin-Larsa Period (c2060–1818 BCE) begins with the end of the Akkadian Period (during which the Akkadian rulers from Sargon to Naram-Sin ruled their Mesopotamian empire). The Isin-Larsa Period comes to an end with the true rise of Babylon, and […]
Continue ReadingMumun Pottery Period
The Mumum Pottery Period (c.1500 – 300 BCE) of Korean History is when we see the emergence of the first agricultural societies — the Korean Neolithic Revolution. Relative to the people of the Near East, the people of the Korean […]
Continue ReadingTracing The Diaspora of an Ancient People
The similarities in religious tradition among a wide range of ancient people indicates shared tradition, shared cultural heritage, and potentially shared ancestry — and it is not always easy to tell which. (With the exception that genetic evidence can now […]
Continue ReadingThe Sumerians
The Sumerians were among the greatest, and most mysterious, of our ancient ancestors at the beginning of Ancient History. They developed the first cities, and single-handedly ushered us into the Historical Era with their invention of writing. However, not just […]
Continue ReadingElectric Charges and Fields
When studying Newton’s Laws, several physical phenomena classified as forces. We classified these physical phenomena as forces because of the effect that they had on physical objects, in that they caused them to accelerate. When studying impulse and momentum, we […]
Continue ReadingAncestral East Asians
The Ancestral East Asians are the ancestors of all modern East Asian populations, and other distinct peoples like the Siberians, Native Americans, Polynesians, and East/Southeast Asians. [1] The Ancestral East Asians split from other human groups probably around 70–50 ka. […]
Continue ReadingPrehistory of East Asia
The Ancestors of the East Asians split from other human populations — essentially as they continued their migration toward the east — probably around 70–50 ka. [1] The descendants of the Ancestral East Asians, are the modern East/Southeast Asians, Polynesians, […]
Continue ReadingHomo Erectus
Homo erectus means “man upright” — literally, a species of human suspected of being the first to have walked upright. H. erectus left the African continent about 1.8 Mya. Since that time they are believed to have lived predominantly in […]
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