We Have A Lot To Learn About Our Ancestors ⛏️

 We have inherited much of our being from our parents, grand parents, and ancestors Much information of them is available to use. We have ignored much of that data. It may be valuable to us to better know who we are and from whence we spring. 

Southern India Archaeology

The more we learn from archaeological work in Southern Indian the better we understand our humanity

            As we learn the history and prehistory of Southern India the more correctly we value it and the better we come to understand ourselves and all humanity. It can be delightful to find how this part of India affected the world and how it interacted with other cultures. Which of the 12 disciples may have visited here? Could Jesus have studied here? What did India contribute to the European Iron Age? We have many curious learnings ahead of us.

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14. A Brief Look at Vijayanagara and then on to Longer Look at the North of India.

                    South India has a marvelous ancient history. This has been called the end of that history as well as the beginning of another and even this ending is marvelous. You will be pleased when you view the video to its end. Its an interesting introduction to the history and prehistory of  South India and all of the subcontinent that is India. I find going into Indians past from here wonderous. Here you can learn that here Tamil have been long. 

                    You will begin on the Tungabhadra River with and sight a bit of the enormous  crumbled ancient city of Vijayanagra. Then move quickly to the Indus River. This is from the perspective of the English but here there is little horrid purpose.

                    Enjoy your visit. You can find more very good videos treating of these Indian people, doings, happenings and more in broad strokes. Much of South India is skipped, but in our ignorance and that of the English it still makes quite a good beginning 

Tamil Myth, Modern Archaeology: Ice Age Cities Beneath the Sea

 We are learning a lot these days  and archaeologists are helping us.

We are beginning to hear more from India and finally the Tamil.

                Archaeologist are helping us to learn of our pre-flood ancestors. And, finally, archaeologist are getting help from the other sciences and elsewhere.

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Basque Origins | DNA, Language, and History

They have highest percentage of O negative blood type than does any other country. I have the same type.

Is the DryAss Important? Could Following Your Chickens Help

Underground Civilization That Survived The Cataclysm 12,000 Years Ago

View and listen to this video to its end. It could be a valued guide to your explorations into pre-history.

Countries With the Most Viewers of This Site.

 The top four viewing countries of History With RCS in April were in this order:

First: Colombia!!!!!!!!!!!

Second: Germany

Third: U.S.A.

Fourth: Russia

                Thank you all!  The numbers are not great yet, but you are the best!

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Mastodons Were Big at the Time: Pliocene Epoch; First Notes

 The Pliocene is the epoch in geologic time-scale which extends from 5,333,000 BP  to 2,580,000 BP: That's about 5.30 Mya to  2.58 Mya.
                   

                    "Mya" stands for "millions of years ago." "BP" stands for "before the present." "Epoch" is a time in the geologic time-scale. The geologic time scale is a way of organizing the immensity of geologic time and correlating geologic events on a worldwide scale.

                    The Pliocene epoch follows the Miocene epoch. It is the second most recent epoch of the Neogene period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene is the uppermost subdivision of the long Tertiary period which began 64 Mya; it represents the final stages of a global cooling, several degrees higher then at present. Don't let me confuse you. I am just beginning to learn about this geologic times scale. We have to begin somewhere.

                    Our knowledge of the Pliocene is helping some of us to better understand our present climate situation and to, perhaps, better predict the future effects of our present activity on our climate.

Life, Including Animals

                    Mastodons, elephant-like animals, underwent a great evolutionary diversification during the Pliocene, and many variant forms developed, adapting to varying ecological environments. Grasslands and savanna spread across most continents in this epoch.

                    During the Pliocene, ice accumulated at the poles, which may have led to the extinction of most species there. The polar icecification lead to the advance of glaciers and the ice ages of the Late Pliocene and the following Pleistocene.

                    This epoch was marked by a number of significant tectonic events which created the landscape we know today. One such event was the joining of the plates of North and South America. This joining was brought about by the shift of the Caribbean Plate, which moved slightly eastward and formed the land bridge. This effected the movement of flora and fauna between what are now North and South America. It lead to the migration of armadillo, ground sloth, opossum, and porcupine from South to North America and an invasion of dogs, cats, bears, and horses in the opposite direction.

A Reminder of Our Learning

                    The mid-Pliocene warm period has been studied a great deal and brought us to a better understanding of climate change, including our own and we are gaining in our ability to make some predictions of future climate change. So it seems that there may be a good chance of there being  future.

                    The significance of this is that the expected departure of future climates from those experienced in human history challenges our ability to adapt. and we are beginning to better understand our present situation and to consider our options for adapting. In considering my own options, I see fewer options for co-operation than I would like. 

                    Experts in the field are saying that the Pliocene and Eocene provide the best analogies for our near future climates. I wonder if we have any common intentions. We do not have geologic time to think it over.

                    Thank you for reading

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The Native American Hopewell Culture

 The Native America Hopewell Culture and Tradition of  Mound Builders

                People of the the Hopewell tradition were ancestral to many modern Indian Nations. They may also represent an important tradition extending back in what seems a continuous line, to a time of the mega Fauna. They may even have used the atlatl as early as that. They had certainly maintained a recognizable way of living extending hundreds of years into the past.

                The Hopewell people, like many other Native American people, were matrilineal. In such cultures a man and a woman may have joined under the name of the woman's family. The children of such union may have had the responsibilities and privileges of the female line. If I, as a male, were a member of the culture, my "surname" would become that of my wife's mother, grand mother, and great grandmother. My children would bear that name. I might become known for the doings of my wife's family. 

                I am far from sure of the ways matrilineality effected their culture. However even the little we can learn may help us to better consider how Patrilineality may effect a culture. 

                The Hopewell have been called Mound Builders and came from a long line of such builders. They built more than complex mounds; they built a variety of interesting earthworks. They also made tools and artworks of stone, mica, copper, bone, wood, and much else.

                A work of theirs is called the Newark Earthworks and is located near Newark and Heath, Ohio in what is now the U.S.A. Three sections of this work have been identified and called: the Great Circle, the Octagonal, and the Wright Earthworks. As you may guess the complex was built by people we call Hopewell, The work was done between 100 BC and 500 AD. The Hopewell may have begun a decline as early as 400 AD. The Great Circle has called the biggest earthwork circle in the world or in the U.S. It is very big. It is believed to have been used as a place of ceremony, social gatherings, trade, worship, and honoring the dead. 

                Scholars have demonstrated that the Octagonal Earthwork was used as a lunar observatory for tracking the moon's orbit during its 18.6 year cycle.

Trade: 

                Evidence of their work and commerce has been found from south Florida and near the mouth of the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, and from the Rocky mountains to the Appalachian mountains. and some say, to the Atlantic coast of North America. Much of such evidence is concentrated in the drainage areas of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers.

                After 1492 Europeans were becoming aware of the earthworks of the Hopewell and Adena people. First the Spanish and latter the French commented on some of the mounds being abandoned and over grown with grass, brush, and trees. The English and American colonists became curious of mounds at an even latter date, They dug into them. They found goods; goods of many kinds from pottery to gold. Some of their finds were wonders. Including skeletal remains of persons of a bigger of a size than any of the finders.

                Some of the finders were interested in that which could be sold. Others wondered who the builders could be. Certainly not the few sad Indians they saw around them. The Indians they saw around them were the children who's families had been diseased and cruelly exploited  by Europeans for over 300 years. What you see is what you get. They were not seeing the "noble redman." We are still learning about who those builders were. We still have much to learn. Most of the evidence points tot  the Native people living near us today.

                For now, I will say that it has seemed reasonable to believe that the Hopewell people experienced a peak in their culture from about 200 BC to about 400 AD. They were proceeded by an interesting and long lived culture called the Adena. Like the Hopewell they traded from the Gulf of Mexico to a bit beyond the Great Lakes and all along the Mississippi Drainage system, including the Ohio and Missouri rivers. There is much evidence that the Adena were active from about 1,000 BC to about 200 BC.

                I hope to post about the Adena When I believe there is interest among my readers.

                Experienced ones say that we have much of value to learn from the signs left by our Native predecessors, if we would dig carefully.

                This was a popular post at RCS Posts and it seems appropriate to this site where pre-history and archaeology are featured.

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