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Boring. Excitement is when I get to go to a vet appointment.

That took no time at all. As you will see, the pyroclastic flow was mainly the coup de grace. The town had been battered into rubble long before.

https://youtu.be/dY_3ggKg0Bc

Recall that it was not just the pyroclastic flow at the end. For the better part of a day Vesuvius rained ash and pumice down on the town and that gets heavy when it starts to build up.

Somewhere there was a video rendering of the eruption. I wonder if I can still find it?

A few roofs are said to have survived although most lost not only the roof but the second floor as well. The ash build up was simply too much weight.

I'm sure they are worried about theft or vandalism.

Much ends up at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. http://www.museoarcheologiconapoli.it/en/ The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains. Its collection includes works from Greek, Roman and Renaissance ti...

More news on the subject: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications Individual twisted fibres on stone tools from the Abri du Maras led to the hypothesis of Neanderthal string production in the pas...

E.P. would have liked this one. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/comet-upended-life-paleolithic-village-12800-years-ago-180974575/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200412-Weekender&spMailingID=42244886&spUserID=NzQwNDU2ODI3MjAS1&spJobID=1741299866&spReportId=M...

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Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:48 am

One assumes the traces mean they didn't wash the pots, disgusting.

They probably didn't practice "social distancing," either!

Now that the link is there, yeah: Yamauchi was featured in the widely read Christian apologetic work The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. He has given presentations on the Easter story to such universities as Cornell, Yale, and Princeton. He has also appeared in various television documentaries conce...

Hi, there.

You lost me. To what link are you referring?

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/revolutionary-new-method-for-dating-pottery-sheds-new-light-on-prehistoric-past/127368 Revolutionary new method for dating pottery sheds new light on prehistoric past The trick was isolating individual fat compounds from food residues, perhaps left by cooking me...

Yup. A hammer stone is otherwise known as a rock!

Right you are.

A cave in Central Germany, or the Balkans or Russia is unlikely to have a maritime element. Whereas a cave on the coast of Portugal is a totally different story. What it does suggest is that they were just as adaptable to their environment as HSS was.

Definitely beads. See this collection from Harappa in the Indus Valley. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRkgpt7mENZEInCJaedw0yriTxpUNxJUbZaVCfpHgbHiZcB0RBK&usqp=CAU I'll stick with a net weight for the first one. The other thing could be natural. I can't tell from the photo if...