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RE5TE t1_izox3x6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A wall relief, comprising five figures carved on a bench in a communal building dating to the 9th millennium BC, was found in Sayburç, south-eastern Turkey, in 2021. It constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’ by -introuble2

This guy is a complete fraud. He's only on Netflix because... his son is the head of the Documentary department.

>Hancock's theories are the basis of Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix, where Hancock's son Sean is "senior manager of unscripted originals".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

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WhittlingDan t1_izowd7g wrote

Reply to comment by ashoka_akira in The Japanese cigarette brand weaponised against Chinese smokers in wartime by zhumao

Fentanyl is a problem because Purdue Pharmaceutical got a ton of people addicted to Oxycontin and then the government suddenly shut the faucet off making the problem almost instantly worse. There was not enough heroin to supply the US addiction needs So it was "fortified" with fentanyl. It soon became clear how much cheaper it was and the profit and ease of transportation. China may use it as a 'weapon' but they don't have to. Mexico, the middle east, criminals and psychopaths the world over just for greed of money and power would do it. Our own CIA directly sold cocaine and started the crack epidemic in this country. China became a problem because businesses were more than happy to exploit workers and slaves all over for greater profit at the cost of their own countries and people. Fentanyl is here and not going anywhere anytime soon, even if China made none of it. We have a huge market for drugs here and it will always be filled by greedy people.

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DonkeyDonRulz t1_izov6n9 wrote

Reply to comment by myguitar_lola in Bookclub Wednesday! by AutoModerator

Watch ken Burns "the dust bowl".

Not much changed on the frontier in that time I imagine. My family grew up in Illinois/Iowa farm country , and I don't think the horse really even got supplanted until WW2, judging by family photos.

Look for 1918 flu documentaries, I saw one that discussed the progression, and panic in small Midwest America in as in it spread from that army base. Quarantine photos and photos of towns keeping guard and what not.

I feel like another ken Burns show touched on the Midwest in that period, possibly "prohibition", or the jack Johnson one.. they're all spectacular documentaries, so you can't lose.

Also,.just found this website that sorts clips from his shows, sorted by dates, areas, characters

The 1920s: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/playlist/1920s#19th-amendment

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abdoelsheik t1_izouf4r wrote

Reply to “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum

Hi guys I got subscriptions for Curiositystream and HistoryVault the well known documentary streaming services for 50% off their original price if you interested please dm

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TheGreatOneSea t1_izot0ng wrote

Reply to comment by iamnotfromthis in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

The profit from the American colonies came mostly from the food that was exported to the more lucrative Caribbean islands, and the lumber industry, which was needed for the ships.

The English tax system itself had trouble taxing America, because Americans didn't have enough gold or silver to make that easy, and customs officials in America were practically on their own, which made them easy to threaten.

The only practical method of tax was thus forcing all goods to come in and out of Britian, which probably caused more problems than it solved.

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DonkeyDonRulz t1_izoszqr wrote

Reply to comment by Walmsley7 in Bookclub Wednesday! by AutoModerator

Barbara Tuchman's "a distant mirror" looked at the in-betweeners, the middle class guys of the 1300s.

She has a long intro where she said she wanted to cover more mundane life of peasants, but there was a dearth of source material written, since that population was largely illiterate.

I imagine it'd be like if someone in the year 3000 wanted to know what kind of airplanes the average peasant had in 2022. Or what kind of selfie camera junior high kids had in the 1970s. The technology just hadn't l worked it's way that far into society yet. Same with writing in the pre-guttenberg era. And the people who could afford a scribe, well, they prolly weren't writing about the farrier and the farmer, or the butcher and the baker. She also made a point that very little was written about women, either.

Anyway, good luck in your search

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Bentresh t1_izonnrc wrote

Reply to comment by Vesalii in A wall relief, comprising five figures carved on a bench in a communal building dating to the 9th millennium BC, was found in Sayburç, south-eastern Turkey, in 2021. It constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’ by -introuble2

The 9th millennium BCE is not really all that early; humans had been making art for millennia by that point.

Some have argued, for example, that far earlier cave paintings contain narrative scenes.

>Humans seem to have an adaptive predisposition for inventing, telling and consuming stories. Prehistoric cave art provides the most direct insight that we have into the earliest storytelling, in the form of narrative compositions or ‘scenes’ that feature clear figurative depictions of sets of figures in spatial proximity to each other, and from which one can infer actions taking place among the figures. The Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe hosts the oldest previously known images of humans and animals interacting in recognizable scenes and of therianthropes—abstract beings that combine qualities of both people and animals, and which arguably communicated narrative fiction of some kind (folklore, religious myths, spiritual beliefs and so on)...

>Here we describe an elaborate rock art panel from the limestone cave of Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 (Sulawesi, Indonesia) that portrays several figures that appear to represent therianthropes hunting wild pigs and dwarf bovids; this painting has been dated to at least 43.9 ka on the basis of uranium-series analysis of overlying speleothems. This hunting scene is—to our knowledge—currently the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork in the world.

“Earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art” by Maxime Aubert, Rustan Lebe, et al. in Nature 576, 442–445 (2019)

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-introuble2 OP t1_izokfif wrote

Reply to comment by einstruzende in A wall relief, comprising five figures carved on a bench in a communal building dating to the 9th millennium BC, was found in Sayburç, south-eastern Turkey, in 2021. It constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’ by -introuble2

>how this was dated

not sure. However these aren't totally new findings and I think that they are part of a bigger excavation area

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