Wow, who would have thought that early humans would choose to live near best sources of water, food, defense, travel and sanitation.

I wonder if earliest humans breathed air and engaged in coitus for procreation.

Really? I would have settled by the nearest strip club.

They lived in a van ... down by the river.

Did their diets consist of government cheese?

No, no Subby. Dumb humans lived by rivers and streams. While the Natives lived on high ground to avoid being washed away by the yearly floods.

So you're telling me Clonus is behind the dawn of civilization?

The confessional told me Milwaukee was a nonsense word and the cans are naturally occurring.

Quick call the Anthropoligistician.

Reminds me of the Mayan(?) empire and how they irrigated land with natural flows and ditches, until the land rose up and less could be irrigated over the decades/centuries.

/Earth and moving continental plates is such an interesting study for how once lush land near sea level is now at 2000 feet in elevation and weather is now blocked by a mountain range.
//And that section of Africa that is the 'great rift zone'.

"I can start a beer can collection!"

Most carcases of animals don't turn into fossils.

One good way to make a fossil is by having it covered by sediments found in rivers, streams, ponds, etc All fossils appear in sediments.or sometimes mud flows or ash falls.

If you find fossils in some location it doesn't mean that the pre-fossils spent most of their time living there.

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Wow, so many people here assume hunter gatherers never moved their encampments to be out of seasonal flood zones, and then moved back for fishing season or to hunt the animals that came to the river to drink. I don't know why this article is news, since that fact has been in every basic Anthro text book for the last 60 years. Sumerians, Egyptians, Romans, Harrappans, most major cvilizations were started around rivers or some major sources of fresh water, even if, like the Egyptians, they had to get out of the way of the yearly flooding which left behind a rich silt to grow crops in.

Well, the Garden of Eden was right next to 4 rivers, so yeah.

/what, I'm the Weeners this baiting crap in this thread? You're slipping Fark.

weeners

buckshot_bill: "I can start a beer can collection!"

Came here for MST3K, leaving satisfied

"What does M-I-L-W-A-U-K-E-E spell?"

It spells $2.99 a case...

Pfft, everyone knows that the air down by the river really isn't very good for you.

/feel a tingle in my little clonus

Well, Biblical Science, has proven otherwise. Early Adam descendants followed dinosaur herds to stay near their food source and preferred to dwell near volcanoes for heat.

Zalan: Early people living near an easy to access source of fresh water? Inconceivable!

And food. Who'd have thunk it?

BarbadoSlim: Well, Biblical Science, has proven otherwise. Early Adam descendants followed dinosaur herds to stay near their food source and preferred to dwell near volcanoes for heat.

Well, that certainly does clear up some of those pesky questions about creation science that I've been having and no mistake.

It still doesn't account for Mormons, however.

Farker Soze: Well, the Garden of Eden was right next to 4 rivers, so yeah.

/what, I'm the Weeners this baiting crap in this thread? You're slipping Fark.

It was also near a flaming sword which turned in all directions. The Nazis think they've found it and we need you to get there ahead of them Jones.

In other news: Future civilizations wonder why people were buried in a concrete boat in a swamp(or desert).

scalpod: a flaming sword which turned in all directions



Aliens. Definitely aliens.

Who could possibly be so stupid as to think....

Benevolent Misanthrope: Bucky Katt: this is so counter intuitive that it boggles the mind

Why do you say so, Bucky? Makes perfect sense to me. Most life gravitates toward water. And those deserts weren't always deserts.

Well, there we go. I'm glad this article was written then. Carry on.

Fools. They should have migrated into space and become vacuum farmers and radiation herders. Duh. Thank god we have Elon Musk to show us the Way!

Ric Romeo celebrating kwanzaa?

FloydA: KiplingKat872: Wow, so many people here assume hunter gatherers never moved their encampments to be out of seasonal flood zones, and then moved back for fishing season or to hunt the animals that came to the river to drink. I don't know why this article is news, since that fact has been in every basic Anthro text book for the last 60 years. Sumerians, Egyptians, Romans, Harrappans, most major cvilizations were started around rivers or some major sources of fresh water, even if, like the Egyptians, they had to get out of the way of the yearly flooding which left behind a rich silt to grow crops in.

To be fair, the article is discussing Ardipithecus ramidus, so hunting, fishing, and sedentary settlement aren't really germane to the discussion.

But yeah, this is not news even by Fark standards.

Actually it is news. Despite all the "of course!" In this thread, most primates don't live directly on the edge of waterbodies but further inland, safe with the trees. This species, clearly bipedal, is part of an argument about how bipedalism evolved. Earlier specimens have been put squarely in woodlands, where bipedalism isn't thought to confer enough benefit to evolve alone and therefore must have evolved along with some other trait(s). This specimen, they're saying, was a grassland dweller, far enough into the floodplain and away from the permanent timeline that bipedalism makes sense to have evolved independently of other advantageous traits.

Lone Stranger: They lived in a van ... down by the river.

Should have been the headline.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass: The confessional told me Milwaukee was a nonsense word and the cans are naturally occurring.

Funny, the bartender at the Churchkey told me that only Neanderthals drank Really Old Milwaukee. The Cro Magnons drank Spotted Aurochs.