Because
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Silurians, you say?
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More on the kitty:
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Now I want a parasaurolophone!!
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Brief tangent:
Isis alone knows why, but I am suddenly reminded of Tutankhamon’s trumpets.
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Hala Hassan, curator of the Tutankhamun collection at the Egyptian Museum, claimed that it had “magical powers” and that “whenever someone blows into it, a war occurs”. During a documenting and photographing process, one of the museum’s staff had blown into it, and a revolution broke out a week later. The same thing had happened before with the 1967 war and prior to the 1991 gulf war, when a student was doing a comprehensive research on Tutankhamun’s collection."[7]
Well, hell, this could explain a lot!
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Odd that she didn’t also mention its being played on Auntie Beeb radio just 4½ months before WWII broke out.
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Volcanoes break out. Wars are started by interested parties.
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“If anything,” they write, “the eastern Asian record is prompting us to recognize just how complex human evolution is more generally and really forcing us to revise and rethink our interpretations of various evolutionary models to better match the growing fossil record.”
This is unquestionably true, and causes me to wonder if they are seeing a mixed culture of varying degrees of interbreeding of the various hominids extant at the time. I did not see any mention of genetic analysis, so that is pure speculation, but it would fit with the human tendency to mate with anything even remotely compatible. It would also be a very hopeful finding, given the tendency toward insularity and xenophobia currently occurring, that it does not have to be that way.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/science/bronze-age-skeleton-cannibals.html
Perhaps even more disturbing than the acts themselves is the apparent scale. Archaeologists noted the sheer number of consumed humans and animals suggests that hundreds of guests might have attended this grisly feast.
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