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Unprecedented 4,200-year-old rock art etching of animal herd found in Golan Heights dolmen

Amanda Borschel-Dan
Times of Israel
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:55 UTC
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© Yaniv Berman/ Israel Antiquities AuthorityThe dolmen in the Yehudiya Nature Reserve.
The unique discovery of a clearly composed, artistic rendering of a herd of animals is shifting the way archaeologists think about the little-understood peoples who created the thousands of massive stone burial chambers, or dolmens, that dot northern Israel's Golan and Galilee.

"This is the first time we see this kind of rock art in dolmens in the Middle East," said Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Uri Berger in a video accompanying the IAA press release on Wednesday. The findings were published in a scholarly article co-authored by Berger and Tel Hai College's Prof. Gonen Sharon last week in the peer-reviewed journal Asian Archaeology.

"These megalithic structures were built more than 4,000 years ago. They are ancient burials and they were built by a group of people of whom the only thing we know is that they built their dolmens," said Sharon in the video.

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Dark Forces: How to take back control of your mind

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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"Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man's belief...The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world."

- William Sargant "Battle of the Mind"
It is rather ironic that in this "age of information", we are more confused than ever...

It had been commonly thought in the past, and not without basis, that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression. To recognise that one was "oppressed" meant they must first have an idea of what was "freedom", and if one were allowed the "privilege" to learn how to read, this discovery was inevitable.

If education of the masses could turn the majority of a population literate, it was thought that the higher ideas, the sort of "dangerous ideas" that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in "The Brave New World", would quickly organise the masses and revolution against their "controllers" would be inevitable. In other words, knowledge is freedom, and you cannot enslave those who learn how to "think".

However, it hasn't exactly played out that way has it?

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Better Earth

Mysteries of Americas earliest inhabitants revealed deep inside Yucatan caves

Doyle Rice
Phys.org
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC
Q Roo
© CINDAQ.ORGA diver from Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Q Roo (CINDAQ A.C.) collects charcoal samples in the oldest ochre mine ever found in the Americas, used 10,000-12,000 years ago by the earliest inhabitants of the Western hemisphere to procure the ancient commodity. The charcoal is thought to come from wood burned to light the cave for the ancient miners. The mine holds some the best-preserved evidence of the earliest inhabitants of the hemisphere and was found in a cave that is now underwater in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
It was all about the ochre.

Thousands of years ago, the first inhabitants of the Americas journeyed deep into caves in present-day Mexico to mine red ochre, a highly valued, natural clay earth pigment used as paint.

Now, according to a new study, scientists and divers have discovered the first evidence of this mining operation deep within underwater caves in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

"What is remarkable is not only the preservation of the mining activity, but also the age and duration of it," said study lead author Brandi MacDonald of the University of Missouri. "We rarely, if ever, get to observe such clear evidence of ochre pigment mining of Paleoindian age in North America, so to get to explore and interpret this is an incredible opportunity for us.

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Genome studies support influence of Native Americans on Polynesians


Cosmos Magazine
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
Easter Island
© Andres Moreno-EstradaThe Tongariki site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

Native Americans had a genetic and cultural influence on Polynesia more than five centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the region, a new study suggests.

And it didn't all start in the obvious place - Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - according to the international team of researchers.

They say evidence shows first contact was on one of the archipelagos of eastern Polynesia, such as the South Marquesas, as proposed by the late Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who made his famous drift voyage from Peru to Polynesia on the raft Kon-Tiki in 1947.

The new study, which is described in a paper in the journal Nature, was led by Andrés Moreno-Estrada, from Stanford University, US, and Alexander Ioannidis from Mexico's National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity.

With colleagues they examined the genomes of more than 817 people from 17 island populations and 15 Pacific coast Native American groups and found "conclusive evidence" for contact around 1200 CE, "contemporaneous with the settlement of remote Oceania".

"Our analyses suggest strongly that a single contact event occurred in eastern Polynesia, before the settlement of Rapa Nui, between Polynesian individuals and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia," they write.
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Better Earth

The art of Burganov: A lasting reminder of US - Russia friendship

Edward Lozansky
Washington Times
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 20:25 UTC
Lincoln Tsar
President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II.
For many open-minded Americans and Russians it has become a tradition to congratulate each other on their independence days, which are June 12 for Russia and July 4 for America.

This year we decided to note some Russian artistic works, which in the current political atmosphere might speak better than words when sending best wishes to America.

We are talking about sculptures of famous Americans located in Moscow and produced by well known Russian artist Alexander Burganov. As a side note, his sculpture of Russia's most famous poet Alexander Pushkin is located on the campus of George Washington University, at the corner of 22nd and H streets, NW.

Comment: See also: The international dimensions of 1776 and how an age of reason was subverted

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A historical reminder of what defines the United States, as told by a former slave

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:16 UTC
Frederick Douglass
© WikimediaFrederick Douglass
We live in tumultuous days... one could say "the end of an era".

It is clear that there is a storm coming, however, the question is will it be the sort of storm that provides sustenance and relief to drought-stricken and barren lands, or will it be the sort of storm that destroys indiscriminately and leaves nothing recognizable in its wake?

There is such a heavy tension in the air, the buildup we are told of centuries of injustice, oppression and murder. It feels like the entire world's burden has laid itself upon one culprit and that it is high time that that villain pay for past blood spilled.

That villain is the United States.

It is common to hear that this nation was created under the hubristic banner of "Freedom from Empire", while it brutally owned slaves and committed genocide on the indigenous people. That the "Declaration of Independence" and the "U.S. Constitution" are despicable displays of the highest degree of grotesque hypocrisy, and that in reality the U.S. was to replace one system of empire with another and far worse.
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Mysterious Stone Age flint artefacts may be crude sculptures of humans say archaeologists

Michael Marshall
New Scientist
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:37 UTC
The potential flint figurines
© Kharaysin archaeological teamThe potential flint figurines.
More than 100 distinctive flint artefacts from a Stone Age village in Jordan may be figurines of people used in funeral rituals, according to a team of archaeologists. However, other researchers aren't convinced that the objects represent people at all.

Since 2014, Juan José Ibáñez at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Humanities Research in Spain and his colleagues have been excavating a site called Kharaysin in Jordan. It was occupied from around 9000 BC until at least 7000 BC. At this time, people who were previously hunter-gatherers were taking up settled farming. Kharaysin is one of the oldest examples of a village where people built houses and lived year-round.

"We were excavating funerary areas, a cemetery," says Ibáñez. This is where the researchers found the flint objects, each with the same distinctive shape and with two pairs of notches carved into it on either side.

"We know very well the tools that are made at that period," says Ibáñez. These artefacts didn't look like any of them.

The objects don't seem to have been used as tools, as they show no signs of wear from use. This suggests they were decorative or symbolic, says Ibáñez.
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Ancient tools unearthed: May rewrite understanding of human history in Central Africa

Sarah Cascone
artnet News
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:34 UTC
ancient stone tools congo basin 620,000 yo
© Richard OslislyTool cut on pebble from the alluvial terrace of Elarmékora in the historic Epona complex of the Lopé-Okanda World Heritage Site in Gabon.
Archaeologists have dated stone tools from Lopé National Park in Gabon to 620,000 to 850,000 years ago, making them the earliest known evidence of a human presence in the Congo Basin.

"In the African chronology, we always thought Central Africa was reserved for gorillas and the great apes, but in fact that's false — there was a human presence," said archaeologist Richard Oslisly of France's Research Institute for Development, in a video produced by the organization.

He made his first trip to the region in 1987, when he noticed what appeared to be a carved terrace, suggesting ancient agricultural activity. There, Oslisly found stone tools that could have been used to cut meat. The initial carbon dating suggested the artifacts were nearly 400,000 years old, but that technology was limited in the 1980s.
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Best of the Web: The international dimensions of 1776 and how an age of reason was subverted

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:41 UTC
franklin independence painting
This July 4th, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international "deep state" should not be ignored as a political force of history - arranging wars, assassinations and promoting economic enslavement of people and nations throughout the centuries - the guilt cannot entirely be placed on this apparatus. As Shakespeare's Cassius once said to Brutus, "our fate... is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

The mob which Shakespeare mocked as a mindless instrument of tyrants in his play Julius Caesar has again been deployed in America where George Soros' funding has turned this social-justice beast against the very republic itself (ironically under the banner of "Freedom from Tyranny" of course).

Instead of hearing calls to save America, break up the Wall Street banks or return America back to its anti-colonial heritage, today we hear only calls for tearing down monuments, and to undo the Constitution as a fraud wrapped in a lie built upon hypocrisy and white privilege, with no redeeming value anywhere to be found.
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Climate change and the rise of the Roman Empire

Bess Connolly
Yale
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC
Okmok
© Christina Neal — Alaska Volcano Observatory, USGS via Wikimedia CommonsAlaska's Okmok volcano
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.E. triggered a 17-year power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic leading to the rise of the Roman Empire. To the south, Egypt, which Cleopatra was attempting to restore as a major power in the Eastern Mediterranean, was shook by Nile flood failures, famine, and disease. These events are among the best known and important political transitions in the history of western civilization. A new study reveals the role climate change played in these ancient events.

An international team of researchers, including Yale's Joe Manning, used historical accounts and climate proxy records — natural preservers of an environment's history (such as ice cores) — to uncover evidence that the eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 B.C.E. caused global climatic changes that sparked the period's political and social unrest and ultimately changed the course of ancient history. The research was published June 22 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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During the civil war that followed Caesar's death, written accounts remarked on the unusual weather — the sun didn't shine, and the weather was unusually cold and wet, leading to famine. Historians have previously speculated that a volcano was to blame, and now geoscientists, historians, and archaeologists have been able to physically investigate that theory.

The study used climate models to see how Okmok's eruption would have affected the Mediterranean, and found that temperatures could have dropped up to 13.3 degrees Fahrenheit, with precipitation increasing up to 400 percent.
roman cooling timeline
© Desert Research Institute.A timeline of events in the Roman Republic and Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom around the time of the Okmok eruption.
The effects of Okmok also rippled out to ancient Egypt, its dark cloud of volcanic aerosols possibly causing a drought in Africa. The resulting Egyptian famine likely made it easier for Octavian to defeat and annex the fallen Ptolemaic Kingdom as part of the nascent Roman Empire in 30 BC.
It's likely there were a number of factors driving Earth Changes as Pierre Lescaudron details in his article Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle.

See also: The Seven Destructive Earth Passes of Comet Venus

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