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Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit points out this story which may rewrite the early history of humans in North America. From the Sciencemag story: "In August of 2012, an 11-year-old boy made a gruesome discovery in a frozen bluff overlooking the Arctic Ocean. While exploring the foggy coast of Yenisei Bay, about 2000 kilometers south of the North Pole, he came upon the leg bones of a woolly mammoth eroding out of frozen sediments. Scientists excavating the well-preserved creature determined that it had been killed by humans: Its eye sockets, ribs, and jaw had been battered, apparently by spears, and one spear-point had left a dent in its cheekbone—perhaps a missed blow aimed at the base of its trunk. When they dated the remains, the researchers got another surprise: The mammoth died 45,000 years ago. That means that humans lived in the Arctic more than 10,000 years earlier than scientists believed, according to a new study. The find suggests that even at this early stage, humans were traversing the most frigid parts of the globe and had the adaptive ability to migrate almost everywhere."
2000km south of the North Pole sounds like you'd be in a fairly warm area....
Around 71 degrees north (latitude).
So... northern alaska, greenland, northern tips of scandinavia, siberia... are all around 2000 km from the pole.
All of Iceland is further south.
The world is a big.
It's called a pun, son. You're supposed to grin and bear it.
Cities are disposable. Build a city, use it so long as it remains convenient to use, and when the water rolls over it, just abandon it.
WTF makes people think we need to defend cities? You've forgotten your nomad roots?
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