Archaeology News Thread

[Bed$tuy🇭🇹]

When you go back far enough, everyone was black (i.e. dark skinned). They believe the gene for light skin first appeared around 40K years ago, but it's not like it appeared and then instantly everyone in a certain region was light. Evolution doesn't work like that. It would have taken 10s of thousands of years for certain traits to win out through natural selection. So when we're talking about some of these civilizations that started 5000+ years ago, it's a good chance that most of them were started by black people simply because lighter people didn't even exist in high proportions in certain regions.

Derived SLC24A5-AA has been naturally selected for 99% of pale skin Europeans and was discovered in Satsurblia Cave Georgia.

Africans have the Ancestral Version which is SLC24A5-GG

There's other depigmentation alleles like OCA2, HERC2, SLC45A2, and KITLG but

Non of them has the significance of SLC24A5-AA

Months ago we talked about Cheikh Anta Diop and his influences.
You told me you did an essay on him In college

He has a specific book in French talking about the Natufians. He confirmed that the Natufians that Dorothy Garrodd discovered were African with Dolichocephalic Skulls with high melanin content.

White Academia called him pseudo and unreliable.
Fast forward they biting his style and confirming what he already said.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Derived SLC24A5-AA has been naturally selected for 99% of pale skin Europeans and was discovered in Satsurblia Cave Georgia.

Africans have the Ancestral Version which is SLC24A5-GG

There's other depigmentation alleles like OCA2, HERC2, SLC45A2, and KITLG but

Non of them has the significance of SLC24A5-AA

Months ago we talked about Cheikh Anta Diop and his influences.
You told me you did an essay on him In college

He has a specific book in French talking about the Natufians. He confirmed that the Natufians that Dorothy Garrodd discovered were African with Dolichocephalic Skulls with high melanin content.

White Academia called him pseudo and unreliable.
Fast forward they biting his style and confirming what he already said.

The science has come a long way as far as being controlled by racist narratives. Racists are still among today's scientists of course, but their word isn't taken as gospel anymore.

 

[SeaSnake]

Thanks for this thread

 

[Bed$tuy🇭🇹]

Ancient Roman graveyard — with over 1,400 tombs — unearthed in France. Take a look



When archaeologists began excavating a plot of land in Narbonne, France, they quickly uncovered dozens of ancient Roman burials. That was just the beginning.

Seven years and over 1,400 tombs later, their work has finally finished.

The result? An extraordinarily detailed account of life and death in a typical ancient Roman graveyard.

The ancient Roman empire conquered modern-day France in 125 B.C., named it Gaul and set up Narbonne as their first colony, according to the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research. Situated on the Mediterranean Sea, ancient Narbonne thrived and quickly became one of the largest ports in the area.


To match its growing population, Narbonne needed a similarly sized graveyard. A burial district was set up on the outskirts of town around 100 A.D., the institute said in an April 17 news release. Ancient Romans continued using and expanding the graveyard until around 300 A.D.

When modern-day archaeologists excavated the site, the graveyard spanned about 54,000 square feet and included 1,430 tombs and 450 other structures.

Most of the ancient Romans buried in the cemetery were from the lower class, archaeologists said. Surviving tombstones indicated the deceased were freedmen of Italian origin, plebeians or commoners and enslaved people.

The vast majority of graves were cremations where the deceased was burned on a pyre before being buried in a stone, glass or pottery container, the institute said.

In the remaining graves, the deceased person was simply buried. There were about 260 of these burial-style graves, half belonging to children, the institute said.

A child’s burial-style grave found in Narbonne