[HN Gopher] Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago
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       Cannabis first domesticated 12,000 years ago
        
       Author : dnetesn
       Score  : 124 points
       Date   : 2021-07-18 10:46 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | deregulateMed wrote:
       | Since this is the first cannabis topic I've seen on HN, I have
       | lots of questions/ideas/problems I want to share. I'm going to
       | post them in no particular order. Maybe someone has a solution
       | 
       | >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine
       | for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any
       | solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious.
       | 
       | >Is investing in weed stocks encouraging drug addiction/use? Is
       | it ethical to promote drug use?
       | 
       | >Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny,
       | controlled amounts every time.
       | 
       | >Is there a solution to munchies?
       | 
       | >Has anyone been able to convince a fortune 500 company that they
       | need(medical) marijuana for work? As mentioned I'm significantly
       | more focused, but I don't like the social stigma. I already have
       | the job, it's purely a cultural/social problem.
       | 
       | > Are my memory problems due to weed or is this just age? (When
       | not using) I feel like I've lost lots of childhood memories and I
       | have more difficulty than ever with names.
       | 
       | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can do
       | for focus that isn't drug related?
        
         | mallomarmeasle wrote:
         | Medicinal Chemist (and former cannabis consumer) here.
         | 
         | >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine
         | for me, but I develop tolerance...
         | 
         | Interestingly, I used to notice that once I became tolerant to
         | one strain, over a couple weeks, switching to another strain
         | could at least partially alleviate it.
         | 
         | This to me is fascinating. Psychoactive effects of cannabinoids
         | are thought to be mediated by the CB1 receptor. Cannabis
         | strains can vary strongly in their perceived effects. Are there
         | subtypes of the CB1 receptor differentially activated by the
         | various cannabinoids present at different levels in the
         | strains? For instance CB1a and CB1b? I do not think this is
         | known.
         | 
         | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can
         | do for focus that isn't drug related?
         | 
         | This sounds like a line from John Stewart in some stoner movie
        
           | irthomasthomas wrote:
           | "In 1998, Professors Raphael Mechoulam and Shimon Ben-Shabat
           | posited that the endocannabinoid system demonstrated an
           | "entourage effect" in which a variety of "inactive"
           | metabolites and closely related molecules markedly increased
           | the activity of the primary endogenous cannabinoids,
           | anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol"
           | 
           | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334252/#:~:tex.
           | ..
        
         | snarfy wrote:
         | Here is my anecdata after being a regular user for 30+ years.
         | 
         | >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine
         | for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any
         | solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious.
         | 
         | You have to limit your intake. It's really easy to over do it
         | with pipes and bongs. You'll end up getting 10x as much as you
         | need and blow your tolerance.
         | 
         | >Is investing in weed stocks encouraging drug addiction/use? Is
         | it ethical to promote drug use?
         | 
         | No less ethical than investing in entertainment.
         | 
         | >Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny,
         | controlled amounts every time.
         | 
         | The best way is to use a vape pen and oil. Set a low wattage
         | and then count x seconds while hitting it.
         | 
         | >Is there a solution to munchies?
         | 
         | Smoke less. It's a symptom of smoking too much. You feel more
         | sober after eating. The hunger is your brain trying to get
         | sober.
         | 
         | >Has anyone been able to convince a fortune 500 company that
         | they need(medical) marijuana for work? As mentioned I'm
         | significantly more focused, but I don't like the social stigma.
         | I already have the job, it's purely a cultural/social problem.
         | 
         | Not fortune 500 but I've known multiple cancer patients where
         | it was not as stigmatized.
         | 
         | > Are my memory problems due to weed or is this just age? (When
         | not using) I feel like I've lost lots of childhood memories and
         | I have more difficulty than ever with names.
         | 
         | Weed messes with your memory pretty significantly. If you were
         | high when the memories formed you will struggle to remember
         | them when not high. I learned how to play guitar while high and
         | can't really play if I'm not. I'd need to spend a lot of time
         | relearning how to play sober.
         | 
         | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can
         | do for focus that isn't drug related?
         | 
         | Competitive gaming. Join a clan.
        
           | atatatat wrote:
           | OP needs a loose leaf vaporizer, like the Pax.
        
         | hattmall wrote:
         | Have you been diagnosed with ADHD?
         | 
         | As to the productivity are you certain that you are more
         | productive and not just feeling more productive? That's a
         | pretty common thing with weed, it causes the brain to release
         | dopamine which it normally does in response to you being
         | productive.
        
           | oblak wrote:
           | ADHD wasn't a thing when I was a child. Does weed help with
           | that? I've heard a lot of treating this condition with what
           | is essentially legal amphetamines which sounds horrible to
           | me.
           | 
           | It's a shame, though not surprising in the least, that the
           | good, cheap stuff is illegal in most of the world.
        
             | schwartzworld wrote:
             | It can help with ADHD.
             | 
             | As far as the amphetamines, dosage, ROU and brain chemistry
             | are everything. A 10mg Adderall is not the same thing as
             | smoking 100mg of meth.
        
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             | balfirevic wrote:
             | > with what is essentially legal amphetamines which sounds
             | horrible to me
             | 
             | It's not.
        
               | simlevesque wrote:
               | What is it not ? Legal amphetamine or horrible ?
        
               | balfirevic wrote:
               | Sorry, I realize now I wasn't clear. It's not horrible.
        
         | erdos4d wrote:
         | I know this sounds bad, but the addiction aspect can be
         | mitigated by living life and being in positions where you need
         | to quit smoking numerous times for whatever reasons. You learn
         | how to master the desire. With that said, I also agree with you
         | that it is a wonderful productivity drug. I can reliably get 2X
         | done in a day if I add a small amount of cannabis.
        
         | adreamingsoul wrote:
         | Talk to a doctor.
         | 
         | Cannabis is complicated and we don't yet have much research
         | with humans due to Federal policy in the US.
        
         | bobiny wrote:
         | >Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny,
         | controlled amounts every time. -vaporizing and less potent weed
         | 
         | >Is there a solution to munchies? -from my experience they go
         | away at some point. You still have the from time to time but
         | much less often.
         | 
         | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can
         | do for focus that isn't drug related? -meditation
        
         | hrh wrote:
         | >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine
         | for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any
         | solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious.
         | 
         | This is not something I've solved but are you consuming large
         | amounts? I can stay high for months on end, using every hour
         | and while it's not going to hit me like the first hit, I say
         | up. I'd like to be more regular in consumption (every 4 hours),
         | but your guess is as good as mine
         | 
         | >Is investing in weed stocks encouraging drug addiction/use? Is
         | it ethical to promote drug use?
         | 
         | Is investing in any US-based company encouraging war? Is
         | investing in any company that uses Chinese production promoting
         | slavery? Caffeine is a drug. We take lots of drugs. We are in
         | the infancy of understanding many of them because we're young
         | and because we've been prudes.
         | 
         | I'd rather see companies and people I'd trust pushing and
         | producing drug products of any kind rather than abusers. You
         | can see this happening in the hemp adjacent markets - lots and
         | lots of shady fly by night companies have popped up but slowly
         | the good ones are rising to the top. 3chi, for example is a
         | popular and I think solid d8 company.
         | 
         | But as I told my dad, every single person that was selling pot
         | on the street is trying to get into the drug business and has
         | been for more than a decade...good luck picking winners.
         | 
         | >Has anyone been able to convince a fortune 500 company that
         | they need(medical) marijuana for work? As mentioned I'm
         | significantly more focused, but I don't like the social stigma.
         | I already have the job, it's purely a cultural/social problem.
         | 
         | > Are my memory problems due to weed or is this just age? (When
         | not using) I feel like I've lost lots of childhood memories and
         | I have more difficulty than ever with names.
         | 
         | This is my main concern (and lung damange). I do notice lapses
         | in short-term memory (though I am high when this happens, I
         | haven't noticed a huge drop). The literature sugests it's
         | relatively small over decades IIRC. Willie Nelson and Snoop
         | (sample of 2) are doing ok.
         | 
         | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can
         | do for focus that isn't drug related?
         | 
         | Get off HN. ;)
        
           | buu700 wrote:
           | _Caffeine is a drug. We take lots of drugs. We are in the
           | infancy of understanding many of them because we 're young
           | and because we've been prudes._
           | 
           | Personally, I don't think it's going to be all that long
           | before society's mental model of cannabis is fully turned on
           | it's head from where it was 20 years ago. The dose makes the
           | poison (or drug), after all.
           | 
           | Fundamentally, I see cannabinoids as less like alcohol, and
           | more like a potential new category of vitamin. As we continue
           | to learn more about the endocannabinoid system and build up
           | increasing experimental evidence tying common maladies to
           | endocannabinoid deficiencies, I see cannabinoid supplements
           | eventually becoming as commonplace as e.g. B-complex and
           | incorporated into mainstream multivitamins.
           | 
           | Going back to GP's questions:
           | 
           |  _Is there a way to microdose? I 'd like to be able to have
           | tiny, controlled amounts every time._
           | 
           | Tinctures/oils. Sublingual absorption is the next best thing
           | to pulmonary absorption in terms of efficiency, but it won't
           | cause long-term damage as inhaling hot ashes and gases might,
           | and it'll allow you to measure the dose down to the mg.
           | 
           |  _Is there a solution to munchies?_
           | 
           | Speaking for myself, I've been microdosing 200mg of Sunsoil
           | full-spectrum CBD oil and 50mg of 3Chi delta-8-THC oil first
           | thing in the morning and before bed since around the end of
           | April.
           | 
           | This helps with both my sleep quality/consistency and
           | preventing semi-regular headaches that had been causing an
           | unhealthy reliance on NSAIDs. It doesn't cause a high or any
           | noticeable psychoactive effect.
           | 
           | However, rather than "munchies", it's actually significantly
           | reduced my appetite. Without any other deliberate change to
           | my routine, such as calorie counting/restriction, I've
           | dropped from 210 to 186 over the past 2.5 months with no
           | perceptible loss in muscle strength or mass, and so far see
           | no signs of the trend stopping before I reach my goal BF%. (I
           | use the term "deliberate" because, although I am currently
           | only eating one meal per day around lunch - dinner time, it
           | isn't an intentional IF/OMAD schedule; it's just the current
           | limit of my appetite.)
           | 
           | That being said, I can't definitively attribute this effect
           | to a particular compound. It could be the delta8, it could be
           | the CBD, it could be a different cannabinoid, it could be the
           | interactions between some or all of them, it could be the 200
           | calories of MCT oil that I'm now ingesting each day (on top
           | of what I was already taking separately pre-workout), and/or
           | it could be the interactions of any or all of the above with
           | the fact that I've been keto for over nine years. YMMV.
        
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         | EvRev wrote:
         | >Is there a solution to munchies?
         | 
         | Lookup THCV, it is an analog that decreases your appetite along
         | with a host of other benefits. Like you can consume any type of
         | cannabis and then take a little THCV to counteract the
         | munchies.
        
           | neom wrote:
           | Hadn't heard of it but seems interesting, thanks for posting.
           | Here's a good in-depth article about it from a couple of days
           | ago if anyone is interested:
           | https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/everything-you-
           | need...
        
           | bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
           | Second anecdata point for THCV for appetite suppressing, and
           | the host of other benefits including memory improving.
        
           | xerox13ster wrote:
           | Also Linalool terpene dominant strains
        
           | mountainriver wrote:
           | Yeah I don't think we've tapped thcv yet, often called the
           | sports car of cannabis
        
         | vincentmarle wrote:
         | > Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have
         | tiny, controlled amounts every time.
         | 
         | I'm not sure if this is still considered microdose, but 5mg
         | sativa edibles hit the sweet spot for me in terms of being
         | productive for several hours and not being too high. YMMV
        
           | arcturus17 wrote:
           | I've also found edibles to be the best way to control dosing.
           | Though in my case I've never found cannabis to be a
           | productive drug - I mini-dosed for leisure only and to great
           | effect.
        
         | yesenadam wrote:
         | You must've missed this AskHN from yesterday
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856934
         | 
         | I think you might find answers to half your questions there.
         | And please ask your own AskHN with your questions, it's better
         | than asking a lot of questions in a comment like this--AskHNs
         | disappear off the radar a lot slower than news stories like
         | this, and you probably will get a lot more answers.
        
         | neom wrote:
         | Smoked weed every day for 10 years.
         | 
         | >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine
         | for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any
         | solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious.
         | 
         | Switch strains frequently, try to find stuff far from the
         | other.
         | 
         | >Is investing in weed stocks encouraging drug addiction/use? Is
         | it ethical to promote drug use?
         | 
         | No, but also investing in weed stocks are probably not the best
         | stocks you could invest in - that said: Invest in what you
         | know!
         | 
         | >Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny,
         | controlled amounts every time.
         | 
         | Yes, but you'll have to take a huge long break to get your
         | tolerance back down. Then make tea:
         | https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/how-to-make-cannabis-te...
         | 
         | >Is there a solution to munchies?
         | 
         | Switch strains - tends to be more common in Indicas with a
         | higher than normal CBD (or if you're into more "creative"
         | solutions, low dose adderall with it, seems to balance out well
         | in strains that cause munchies.)
         | 
         | >Has anyone been able to convince a fortune 500 company that
         | they need(medical) marijuana for work? As mentioned I'm
         | significantly more focused, but I don't like the social stigma.
         | I already have the job, it's purely a cultural/social problem.
         | 
         | If you have a Drs note, there isn't much they can do.
         | 
         | > Are my memory problems due to weed or is this just age? (When
         | not using) I feel like I've lost lots of childhood memories and
         | I have more difficulty than ever with names.
         | 
         | I've read reports of this, I've anecdotally heard people say
         | that - It's never been a problem for me (but aging certainly
         | has)
         | 
         | >If my focus is better on weed, is there something else I can
         | do for focus that isn't drug related?
         | 
         | Diaphragmatic breathing for 5 minutes when you find your mind
         | wandering.
        
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           | caymanjim wrote:
           | Overall I agree with your comments.
           | 
           | > Switch strains - tends to be more common in Indicas with a
           | higher than normal CBD
           | 
           | There is no scientific evidence backing up any claims about
           | the effects of indica vs sativa, and no way to know which
           | strain you're actually getting, even from dispensaries. They
           | tend to be labeled according to the subjective experience of
           | the person deciding how to label them. It's as meaningless as
           | any other marketing label.
           | 
           | > If you have a Drs note, there isn't much they can do.
           | 
           | There's no federal protection, and state protections vary.
           | Some states explicitly prohibit firing employees for off-duty
           | medical marijuana use, but not all states with medical
           | marijuana regulations have formal employee use regulations,
           | and I don't think any have protections for recreational use.
           | Additionally, even where medical use protections exist, they
           | don't cover you being intoxicated on the job. There will be
           | court cases that clarify all of this; meanwhile there's no
           | definitive answer.
        
             | grawprog wrote:
             | >There is no scientific evidence backing up any claims
             | about the effects of indica vs sativa, and no way to know
             | which strain you're actually getting, even from
             | dispensaries.
             | 
             | Even if it's the same strain cloned from the previous crop
             | it can be different in THC/CBD content depending on growing
             | conditions and a number of things. Even the harvest date,
             | the drying and the curing process will affect the final
             | product.
        
               | caymanjim wrote:
               | I agree that there are different chemical constituents in
               | different strains, that seem to--at least anecdotally--
               | cause different subjective effects. I specifically take
               | exception to the indica-vs-sativa claims, which appear to
               | be complete nonsense, and aren't backed up by any
               | science.
        
               | grawprog wrote:
               | I was agreeing with you. I was just pointing out further,
               | even exactly the same plant can have different chemical
               | constituents based on a variety of things without even
               | taking variations between different strains into account.
        
             | pmoriarty wrote:
             | _" There is no scientific evidence backing up any claims
             | about the effects of indica vs sativa"_
             | 
             | Though the research on this is also in its infancy, there
             | has been speculation that the terpenes in cannabis play
             | very important roles its effects.
             | 
             | I'm looking forward to the day when we can choose cannabis
             | based on the various terpenes it contains, and not just on
             | simplistic THC/CBD levels or indica/sativa distinctions.
        
           | pmoriarty wrote:
           | _" If you have a Drs note, there isn't much they can do."_
           | 
           | Many jobs require passing drug tests as a condition of
           | employment.
           | 
           | It would be interesting to hear if anyone has challenged such
           | tests by arguing their cannabis use was a medical necessity.
        
             | washadjeffmad wrote:
             | Drug tests are not specific to metabolites only from
             | scheduled sources. Because unscheduled cannabidiols trigger
             | drug tests the same way as scheduled ones, they are
             | ineffective at identifying illegal use.
             | 
             | And yes, this gets challenged frequently since there's a
             | legal concentration of [?]9 for products sold in the US
             | naturally derived from hemp.
             | 
             | Generally, if you weren't caught in possession of something
             | scheduled, not admitting to use when presented with a
             | "positive" drug test is enough to have it dismissed.
        
             | GravitasFailure wrote:
             | I worked with two different people that tried that. First
             | guy crashed a forklift and was told he couldn't operate
             | heavy machinery while taking any kind of depressant
             | medication, and the second one was an armed security guard
             | who tried explaining that his paranoid behavior was from
             | switching cannabis strains. Under federal law it's a felony
             | to own or possess a firearm while a user of cannabis, and
             | the court cases so far have not been friendly to medical
             | users.
        
       | chizhik-pyzhik wrote:
       | Link to the paper directly-
       | https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/29/eabg2286
        
       | tiahura wrote:
       | So 4000 years before rice? I'm not subject matter expert, but
       | this doesn't seem quite right.
        
         | mandmandam wrote:
         | Why ever not?
         | 
         | Off the top of my head, weed is miles easier to cultivate,
         | provides far more medicinal benefit, has more complete
         | nutrition, and gives obvious and immediate relief from pain.
        
         | klyrs wrote:
         | First off, the press has a bad habit of treating archaeological
         | finds as somehow definitive. I read "first domesticated 12,000
         | years ago" as "earliest evidence found thus far dated to 12,000
         | years ago." Rice (and cannabis) could have been domesticated
         | long before that, but without fossil records, we can't claim to
         | know that.
         | 
         | But... why would you assume any relationship between these two
         | plants being domesticated?
        
       | boomskats wrote:
       | Not a constructive comment, but it was amusing to see this post
       | with 4 points posted 20 minutes ago.
        
         | jliptzin wrote:
         | What's amusing about that?
        
           | kylebyproxy wrote:
           | It's a 4:20 reeference
        
           | deregulateMed wrote:
           | Search 420 weed to learn more
        
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       | guest456789123 wrote:
       | Where I come from, we used to grow cannabis plants and use their
       | seeds to feed birds kept in cages, in captivity. Birds liked the
       | seeds and were singing a lot when feed on them. My garden and
       | that of many others was fully of over one meter high cannabis
       | plants. We had no other use for it. I learned it was a drug only
       | when capitalist world reached us. Now, it is illegal to grow it.
       | 
       | Related: My grandma, now 93, used to say that tea made out of
       | poppy seeds was good for babies that cried a lot. When given that
       | tea, babies slept quite well. No adult I know, ever made use of
       | that. I am not sure about that now.
       | 
       | Seeing 12000 years ago cannabis plants via current lens could
       | lead to incorrect interpretation.
        
         | agumonkey wrote:
         | capitalist world wasn't always hard against hemp and cannabis I
         | believe
         | 
         | usual politics
        
       | PsrNetMan1 wrote:
       | I'm not against Cannabis, I think it has some very important
       | applications; but, what does Cannabis have to do with hacking?
        
       | wcchandler wrote:
       | So glad to see more genomic research around cannabis. I have a
       | jar full of seeds from my late grandfather. He said it was from
       | the same hemp that the Constitution was written on. Doubt the
       | truth behind that but it'd be really cool if one day I could have
       | it analyzed and compared for relatively cheap.
        
         | grasbergerm wrote:
         | It is a common urban legend that the constitution was written
         | on hemp, but not true.
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Constitution_hemp_paper_h...
        
           | wcchandler wrote:
           | Right. Which is why I don't fully believe my late
           | grandfather. However, it would be nice to know if the strain
           | I have has a direct lineage of the hemp grown during the
           | Colony days.
        
             | bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
             | The paper mentions that the Colonies first started growing
             | European hemp varieties but by the mid 1800s had largely
             | switched to (more recently) Chinese origin hemp varieties.
             | I hope your grandfather's seeds are original Colony day
             | seeds and you get to find out some day for a low cost but
             | based on this paper, chances are that it isn't :(.
        
           | LightG wrote:
           | I heard the original one was rolled and smoked, so they had
           | to start again. Hence the current constitution.
        
       | JohnJamesRambo wrote:
       | Ironic that the penalty for cannabis possession goes up to death
       | now in the place where it was first domesticated. Death for
       | having a plant that makes people feel good and happy. Humans are
       | weird.
       | 
       | This study is really neat because as the article says the
       | consensus was always Central Asia for the birthplace of cannabis
       | and now we learn that it is East Asia.
        
         | loufe wrote:
         | I'm all for legalization of marijuana but we can do better than
         | the naive and shallow argument of "it's a plant so it's good
         | for me". Opium and Salvia? Poison berries and cocaine?
        
           | kadoban wrote:
           | The person you're responding too seems to have gone out of
           | their way to specify what effects it has, not just that it's
           | a plant.
        
         | captain_price7 wrote:
         | Death penalty for "possession"? Did you mean trafficking? Here
         | [1] it says,
         | 
         | > according to the Law on Public Security Administration
         | Punishments, marijuana smokers shall be detained for 10 to 15
         | days and fined a maximum of 2,000 yuan.
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_China#Legal_status
        
           | JohnJamesRambo wrote:
           | I just meant possessing something in the normal sense not the
           | legal sense. I don't think death is a good penalty for
           | something as benign as marijuana.
        
         | pmoriarty wrote:
         | _" Death for having a plant that makes people feel good and
         | happy. Humans are weird."_
         | 
         | It's not just about feeling good (though that can be threat
         | enough for some authorities -- dancing bans[1], for example)..
         | Cannabis can have psychedelic effects at high doses, and has
         | been used for religious and sacramental purposes (there has
         | been speculation that cannabis was part of the anointing oil
         | used in the bible, and perhaps in some of the biblical incenses
         | used for religious purposes).
         | 
         | Secular and religious authorities have historically wanted to
         | be in control of what people feel, believe, and think.. so when
         | a plant can alter that or is believed to provide a direct route
         | to communing with a diety or the spirit world instead of
         | relying on the authorities to tell them what to believe or
         | think, then it's easily seen as a threat.
         | 
         | In the US cannabis use was also associated with the
         | counterculture, with the antiwar movement, and with anti-
         | authoritarian sentiment, and with minorities.. all seen as
         | threats to the establishment.
         | 
         | [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_ban
        
       | robbedpeter wrote:
       | This coincides with the Dryas impact era - there seems to be a
       | lot of cultural advances, settlements, and other artifacts that
       | pop up around that time. It seems very plausible to me that many
       | of the discoveries aren't the first of their kind, but the first
       | reimplementation after humans began to rebuild.
       | 
       | The Dryas impact is a fascinating event - if validated, it has
       | the potential to shake up a lot of the currently accepted
       | historical model of human civilization.
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothe...
       | 
       | The impact hypothesis suggests a global hellscape was caused,
       | radically and rapidly causing massive flooding- a likely source
       | for great flood mythologies found in almost every culture.
        
         | vmception wrote:
         | I also generally think the idea of a recently linear
         | progression of human collaboration and advancement is misguided
         | 
         | I think fossilization is merely rare and difficult
        
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         | neom wrote:
         | Thanks for posting this, never heard of the event. PBS has a
         | Youtube channel called "Eons" (seems cool)- I watched their
         | video about it and found it super interesting:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95u2sk_lRoQ
        
         | beowulfey wrote:
         | I love reading about this. I hope one day we will understand
         | what happened back then.
         | 
         | In Hawaiian mythology, there is a creation chant[1] that
         | includes names of the purported parents of 800 generations;
         | after those 800 generations, there is an interesting interim
         | passage describing an event:
         | 
         | Line 1530: "Born was Pola`a/ Born was rough weather, born the
         | current/ Born the roaring, advancing, and receding of waves,
         | the rumbling sound, the earthquake/ The sea rages, rises over
         | the beach/ Rises silently to the inhabited places/ Rises
         | gradually up over the land/"
         | 
         | It's notable because the previous 800 lines are nothing but
         | names of husband and wife; it must have been a big event to get
         | mentioned as such. I'm sure there are other similar stories in
         | the oral tradition. I wonder if anyone has ever compared them
         | all. I hope one day more geological and archeological evidence
         | can connect all these threads.
         | 
         | [1]http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-
         | bin/library?e=d-0beckwit2-000...
        
         | fpoling wrote:
         | The criticism section of the second article puts strong doubts
         | about the impact hypothesis.
         | 
         | Surely there were sudden drop in average temperatures in the
         | Northern hemisphere, but we do not know what triggered it.
        
         | dboreham wrote:
         | On my todo list for a while has been to dig down to see if I
         | can find the "black mat".
        
         | shusaku wrote:
         | I don't know much about the Dryas impact theory, but skimming
         | the second link it seems to really emphasize the Americas?
         | Should it be matched with data from China like in the main
         | article?
        
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