morning computer, 8jul24

🌐 TODAY IS 8jul24

• Biden’s Survival Plan: Decry ‘Elite’ Critics, Appeal to His Base
• Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows
• France shifts to the left, risks policy paralysis

📡 RITUALS, FIRES, CAVES

Berta Fischer.

The miniature fireplaces are the remarkably preserved remains of two ritual events dating back 500 generations.

Nowhere else on Earth have archaeological expressions of a very specific cultural practice known from ethnography, yet traceable so far back, previously been found.

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GunaiKurnai ancestors had transmitted on Country a very detailed, very particular cultural knowledge and practice for some 500 generations.

Jun Oson.

It may not look like much—just a flaking image of three people around a big red pig.

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But the humble cave painting discovered in Indonesia is the oldest known narrative artwork ever made by human hands, dating back more than 51,000 years, new research said on Wednesday.

“This is the oldest evidence of storytelling,” Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist at Australia’s Griffith University, told AFP.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

It’s time to move on, toward whatever happens next.

CAIRN, Kathleen Jamie

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