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ABSTRACT The adaptive strategies of Early Paleoindians associated with the rapid and continent-wide expansions of Clovis and related Fishtail Projectile Point (FPP) complexes in the Americas have been subject to differing interpretations. Were Early Paleoindians megafauna specialists or dietary generalists? These alternative models offer profoundly different implications for Early Paleoindian prey choice, mobility, and technology. We synthesize and evaluate the zooarchaeological records of the earliest widespread cultural manifestations in Eastern Beringia [~14,000 to 13,300 calibrated years before the present (cal B.P.)], North America (Clovis complex, ~13,400/13,050 to 12,800 cal B.P.), and South America (FPP complex, ~12,900 to 11,600 cal B.P.) and summarize their adaptive strategies. Zooarchaeological, technological, and mobility data strongly support the megafauna specialization model. All three groups obtained most of their food from megaherbivores (>1000 kg): woolly mammoth in Beringia, Columbian mammoth in North America, and giant ground sloths and gomphotheres in South America. Focus on megaherbivores facilitated rapid human expansion into different ecosystems before the time-transgressive extinction of megafauna led to regional diversification through adaptations to locally available resources.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef9628

Ben A. Potter et al. ,Hemisphere-wide evidence of Early Paleoindian megaherbivore specialization.Sci. Adv.12,eaef9628(2026). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aef9628

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I will be giving a historical walking tour in old Montreal this Saturday, for free or by donation. If you would like to attend, please comment or send a dm.

Teaser: In April 1849, a Tory mob burned Montreal's Parliament building - the same year revolutions swept across Europe. It was the flashpoint of a five-year political crisis that quietly shaped Canadian democracy. Join a two-hour walking tour through the streets where it all happened.

This tour can be offered in English, French, or bilingual, depending on the audience.

See more details and visuals about this tour at this LINK

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The following quote is a rare written account by someone who witnessed Bach performing in Leipzig. Gesner was Bach's colleague as rector of the Thomasschule.

“All these things, Fabius, you would say were very trivial, if it should happen to you to see—having been summoned from the underworld—Bach (to mention him specifically, because he was not long ago my colleague at the Leipzig Thomasschule): how he, with both hands and all his fingers, plays either our polychord (which comprises many cithers in one) or that instrument of instruments (Lat. organum), whose infinite number of pipes are brought to life by bellows; how he runs to and fro, here with both hands and there with the swiftest service of his feet, eliciting alone many diverse—yet harmoniously agreeing—ranks of sounds, as it were. If you could see him, I say, while he is doing that which many of your cithara-players and six hundred of your flute-players could not do; not singing with perhaps a single voice in the manner of a lyre-player performing his own part, but a single man intent upon everyone at once: recalling this one to the rhythm and beat with a nod, another with a stamp of the foot, and a third with a threatening finger.
[You would see him] giving the tone—high to this one, low to another, and middle to a third—at the very moment it must be used; and how this one man, amidst the greatest roar of the performers, though he is executing the most difficult parts of all, can nevertheless instantly notice if anything is amiss and where it disagrees, keeping everyone in order, intervening everywhere, and restoring anything that falters. You would see him as the master of rhythm in every limb, a single man measuring all the harmonies with his keen ear, and producing all the voices through the narrow limits of a single throat. Otherwise a great admirer of antiquity, I nonetheless believe that my Bach (and anyone who might be like him) comprises within himself many Orpheuses and twenty Arions.”

The quote is from a footnote in a book edited by Gesner. Original in latin.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, De Institutione Oratoria, ed. Johann Matthias Gesner (Gottingen: Abram Vandenhoeck, 1738).

Source: https://bach-studies.wursten.be/gesner-on-bach-lat-eng/

Like you're at an office or a funeral or an event and there's lots of coffee available. You could drink a lot if you wanted. But you don't. Do you regret not drinking more free coffee? Do ya?

Up to now I've been saying bad boys when referring to jalapano peppas, pop tarts, california rolls, stuff like that. But I want to use this expression more. A lot more. Could I call parsley bad boys? What about pasta water? Napkins?

Am I smart?

Put 2 tablespoons of coarse salt in a glass. Fill with lukewarm water. Stir.