Hell has a back door?
Jim knew.
Are they going to send in Doom Guy first?
Assumptions, check them.
âThere are currently no methods of identifying skeletal remains as intersex. In recent years, there has been much discussion in forensics research of intersex people. Researchers, such as von Wurmb-Schwark, Bosinski and Ritz-Timme (2017), along with Dunkelmann (et al. 2019), have shown that intersex people are incorrectly sexed by amelogenin which identifies subjectsâ chromosomes but cannot detect polymorphisms of those chromosomes (von Wurmb-Schwark et al. 2007: 28â29; Stewart et al. 2017; Dunkelmann et al. 2019). While they do present trends in the way modern intersex people are treated medically and how this affects the results of amelogenin tests, this does not apply to ancient people who did not have the same medical treatments that are available today.â
That makes the agate scraper, complete with bloody evidence of its use, more than 18,000 years oldâand one of the oldest traces of human presence in North America.
Not as old as this, but a lot more clear and definitive.
Milo did a vid on this as well
They do seem to be approaching that with open minds. It is much better than assuming âimportant grave? Must be a guy.â
There was also a ceramic plate, he says, which contained traces of wine and cannabis.
Itâs interesting that they were still adding high-class grave goods for generations. Religious ceremonial purposes? 
more proof humans were in the Americas way earlier than previously thought. Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas earlier than thought | Americas | The Guardian
pet peeve of mine when an article talks about an object but doesnât show it. Found this image on another website. The carved Giant Sloth bones!
A cave in Israel âhas all the cultic and physical elements necessary to serve as a possible portal to the underworldâ and was used for necromancy.
The breakthrough was finally made possible by the royal name Vema Takhtu, which appeared in both Bactrian parallel texts, and the title âKing of Kings,â which could be identified in the corresponding sections in the unknown Kushan script
it apparently served as one of the official languages of the Kushan Empire alongside Bactrian, Gandhari/Middle Indo-Aryan and Sanskrit. As a preliminary name, the researchers propose the term âEteo-Tocharianâ to describe the newly identified Iranian language.
Why, itâs almost like it wasnât men, acting along as heroic individuals that made history⌠But that canât be right? After all, great men told me that they are the only historical agents! /s
A lot of this of course goes back to the histories of Greece and Rome, which are very much focused on great men and only themâŚso it looks like they must have been unusually patriarchal compared to most contemporaries, but I wonder how much that might have been exaggerated too. 
i read the first in this series when it came out in the 90s. Uppity Women of Ancient Greece was a very well presented collection of stories of great women from that time. in contrast to the tales of âGreat Menâ˘â and how they alone created civilization, Uppity Women counters that notion in a delightful way. worth having another look.
ETA: going to check out the other books in her series.
although, i feel certain you and @anon61221983 are familiar with the work. wanted to share a source for anyone who may have missed it.
I have to assume that âTabula Rasa Pressâ publishes academic works about what used to be known as âClassical Studiesâ! Itâs a great name.
Iâm not, as I do modern history, though this looks like a god damn delight!
If you havenât read Motel of the Mysteries, you really must. Anytime a weird finding is attributed to religious or occultic uses, this book pops into my head. No doubt, somtimes they, in fact, were. But sometines it comes across as âthis is weird, must be the occult again!â
