“A new exhibition at Stonehenge highlights compelling parallels between English and Japanese cultures during the Neolithic and Jomon eras.” Thus Molly Enking describes a kind of “cultural convergent constuctional evolution” of stone circles. The 80-item display of Jomon period artifacts at Stonehenge elucidates these similarities, and Enking discusses factors that may have contributed to resemblances in thought and expression between two so-widely separated areas. John Reppion then takes us Beyond Stonehenge: Ten Locations Around the World with Amazing Ancient Megalithic Monuments. From the famous like Turkey’s Gobekli and Karahan Tepe, through the lesser-known Ishi no Hoden and Masuda no Iwafune of Japan, to several monumental constructions quite new to us at least, Reppion takes us on a fascinating journey through time, space, and largely-mysterious cultures. Next, Nicholas R. Longrich wants us to know Seven Times People Discovered the Americas – and How they Got There. Another remarkable cataloguing of, in this case, human movements. (For more on this subject see Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 to 1492, a Heretical History of Who Was First, published by Anomalist Books.) And likely a question you’ve never contemplated but still apparently just resolved is that DNA Reveals Donkeys Were Domesticated 7,000 Years Ago in East Africa. Freda Kreier relates how the discovery was made and how it “could actually be useful in the future.” (WM)
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