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Almost done with homework. Three pages to go!
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@missloki 3 pages? Ooo. How much have you already done?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 19:25:29 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen About 17. I'm reading an article for my Prehistoric Cultures class. Once it's read an highlighted the 600 word essay is the easy part.
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@missloki ouch. Collage? What level?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:13:44 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen Junior/Community/City whatever they're calling it these days
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@missloki ouch! That spuds harsh. Do you at least enjoy writing it?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:31:00 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen Well, it's a relatively interesting topic. Spatial Patterns of everyday life in old Babylonian neighborhoods.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:34:12 UTC from web-
@missloki That sounds pretty interesting
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:35:06 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark It'd be nicer if it were written better. The article I have to read looks (and reads) like it was taken out of a textbook. Very dry.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:37:22 UTC from web-
@missloki What exactly is a spatial concept?
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@missloki PS if you say "The concept of space" I'm gonna push you down some stairs.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:38:59 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark conceptof space?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:39:39 UTC from web -
@ceruleanspark Ha! No, it's spatial patterning. How the homes and local shops were arranged in the neighborhoods. Bakeries weren't always separate from the home, so they can be somewhat difficult to identify. Inns and Taverns were talked about in letters and documents, but haven't really been positively identified archaeologically. There's sale documents for the buying of flour, but not any evidence of flour mills in the residential areas. Stuff like that.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:42:29 UTC from web-
@missloki Sort of like retroactive urban planning, but not quite?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:42:59 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I guess... maybe. Archaeologists and historical anthropologists are studying the various Babylonian ruins and the texts left behind to try to figure out what went where, who lived where, what the people did in their everyday lives
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:45:28 UTC from web-
@missloki It sounds pretty fascinating. Do elaborate further, if you'd like. I'd like to read it.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:47:20 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark It's a work in progress. The archaeological data is kind of thin, it seems, and the article that I'm working off of is mostly an overview of it. They don't really go into fine details.
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:51:22 UTC from web
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@missloki Hmm. Is there a lot of info out there on thing that date back that long ago?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 22:11:06 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen Varying degrees. The Babylonians had writing and they documented a lot of economic stuff so there's more than just ruins to go off of. But Cuneiform has no punctuation and no spacing and even the experts have troubles reading it.
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@missloki hmm. Is that how they actually read and wrote things? Without punctuation or did they have an entirely different way of communicating?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 22:34:19 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen That was the way they wrote. They've found letters and the Code of Hammurabi (where the "eye for an eye" idea originally came from) is written in cuneiform.
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@missloki That's kinda neat. Would you know what the earliest groups of humans were that we have record of existing?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 23:04:47 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen Do you mean earliest of the genus homo or the earliest homo sapien? Or the earliest human ancestor?
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@missloki Hmm. Seeing as I'm a noob to these sorts of things, I'll just say the earliest markings from any human or thing like that of its time that made engravings. Pretty much what was the first intelligent life form on Earth?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 23:33:58 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen I don't know that off the top of my head. I know that there is remarkable evidence of tool making in pre-homo hominins, but I don't know the specific genus. And there are cave pantings in Europe that were probably done by Cro Magnon
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@missloki no worries. That is pretty astonishing to know how far back we go. But did we originate from Asia or Europe?
Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 23:40:37 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen The presently accepted idea is that we originated from Africa. There seems to be more evidence for an African origin than anywhere else.
Thursday, 12-Apr-12 01:52:07 UTC from web-
@missloki What about . . . space? I mean, there were humans a long time ago, in a galaxy far away.
Thursday, 12-Apr-12 01:54:34 UTC from web-
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@carcino #FineLadies problem?
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@scribus Tell me about it yo. http://ur1.ca/8zif0
Thursday, 12-Apr-12 02:20:21 UTC from web
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@scribus Arjen Lucassen, dude. Ayreon...
Thursday, 12-Apr-12 01:58:47 UTC from web-
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@missloki That awesome. Guessing there's still lots we don't know about?
Thursday, 12-Apr-12 04:12:04 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@renovatedkitchen Yeah, the fossil record isn't quite complete and our science isn't perfect. We've made some pretty insane advances in science and that's really helped us be able to date and analyze remains and get a better picture, but there's still so much we don't know.
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@renovatedkitchen I don't know that off the top of my head. I know that there is remarkable evidence of tool making in pre-homo hominins, but I don't know the specific genus. And there are cave pantings in Europe that were probably done by Cro Magnon
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