Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 19/12/2024 03:03, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/18/24 5:01 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 18/12/2024 07:09, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:05:27 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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    The first known human on the island - a cave fossil named 'Cheddar
    Man' - turned out to be a 'black' African who apparently sailed up
    the Spanish and finally English coast about 10,000 years ago just as
    the ice age was starting to thaw.

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Depending on the exact timing he may have hiked across Doggerland.

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Well its false anyway, and if coming from Africa Doggerland would not have been a useful route

    It is also said he was 'west Euro' - although
   that's a vague def, and the Beaker People upset
   the whole equation later on. People Stuff is
   always messy.
    Thing is, there have been odd genetic/physiotype
   mixes found from around those times. Likely the
   ice melt encouraged a lot of people to wander
   around.

Well hom. sap. was shagging Neanderthals anyway around that time.
That was a time when 'climate change' actually meant something more than an excuse for higher taxes and crap products.
Colossal changes took place across Eurasian and the Northern American habitats.
Everything was on the move. Except CO2 of course.
I had a book once detailing as far as was known then (1980s?) the movement of tribes as evinced by language and cultural patterns, It was a spiders web.
When DNA analysis came along it just got worse...
Probably too much mammoth meat in the diet...
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
  Frédéric Bastiat