Up, breakfast and the morning paper. Sprinkles and rain is coming.
Somewhat surprised on the weather, glad I have the front lawn mowed. The unmowed can’t be seen from the street. (I like unmowed even though Word says it isn’t. Strangely, it reminds me of undead, which, by golly, is recognized by Word ‘spelling’. What does ‘undead’ even mean? Living?) . . . According to M-W ‘undead’ means, first, a vampire; and second, a zombie. That’s funny. I was never much into either one even though science has found a way to wiggle into each enough to spice the mystery.
I couldn’t get to sleep last night so I climbed into the chair and watched last week’s “Beyond Belief” about twins on ABC’s iPad icon. I used to think there was something mystical about identical twins in particular, but I’m leaning on DNA these days, that and habits of living together for most of their early lives. Not much different from living with someone for forty years, you pretty much know what’s going on in your partner’s head by body language first and by very subtle voice tone. Familiarity not mysticism wins the day in my book.
I agree, orndorff. You know what a ‘familiar’ is. – Amorella.
Good joke, Amorella.
Go ahead, say it.
I was thinking, ‘Your sense of humor is your saving grace,’ but somehow it didn’t seem like the right thing to say, well, think, in this case.
Why?
I knew it. I knew you were going to ask ‘why’. I think it is just to irritate me; to get my goat, so to speak. To rip open my facade when it comes to ‘mystic business’ because with you I have questions as to who you are and where you are from, even if you are implanted solely by my imagination.
That would be it, boy. Arrogance either way, it can’t be helped. Relax and post.- Amorella.
You had your bath and cleaned up with new meds on your ivy. Eventually you are going out to lunch but where, no one seems to know. You suggested Chipotle/Panera, but ended up at Five Guys and Fries.
I have been trying to find estimates of the number of people dead around 6 or 7 hundred BCE. So far, I have not been able to find anything I can use for even a rough estimate. I think the book has Mother living about 14,000 years ago, so in a sense, in context that would be until 700 BCE; leaving 13300 years of accumulated dead human beings.
I found this (below) in Wikipedia. All I am looking for is a rough estimate so I know how many dead I am dealing with. As I was searching I realized I needed to do an accounting of sorts of all the human beings we are presently aware of from our past at this time. This is out of due respect for all the Dead whether they are part of the fictional story or not.
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Prehistory (from Wikipedia)
All dates are approximate and conjectural, obtained through research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, genetics, geology, or linguistics. They are all subject to revision due to new discoveries or improved calculations. BP stands for “Before Present.”
Lower and Middle Paleolithic
▪ c. 200,000 BP - Anatomically modern Homo sapiens appear in Africa.
▪ c. 300,000 BP to 30,000 BP - culture in Europe.
▪ c. 75,000 BP - Toba Volcano supereruption.
▪ c. 70,000 - 50,000 BP – Homo sapiens move from Africa to Asia. In the next millennia, these human groups' descendants move on to southern India, the Malay islands, Australia, Japan, China, Siberia, Alaska, and the northwestern coast of North America.
Upper Paleolithic
▪ c. 32,000 BP - Aurignacian culture begins in Europe.
▪ c. 30,000 BP / 28,000 BC - A herd of raindeer is slaughtered and butchered by humans in the Vezere Valley in what is today France.
▪ c. 28,500 BCE - New Guinea is populated by colonists from Asia or Australia.
▪ c. 28,000 BP - 20,000 BP - Gravettian period in Europe. Harpoons, needles, and saws invented.
▪ c. 26,000 BP / c. 24,000 BC - Women around the world use fibers to make baby-carriers, clothes, bags, baskets, and nets.
▪ c. 25,000 BP / 23,000 BC - A hamlet consisting of huts built of rocks and of mammoth bones is founded in what is now Dolni Vestonice in Moravia in the Czeck Republic. This is the oldest human permanent settlement that has yet been found by archaeologists.
▪ . 20,000 BP or 18,000 BC - Chatelperronian culture in France.
▪ c. 16,000 BP / 14,000 BC - Wisent sculpted in clay deep inside the cave now known as Le Tuc d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what is now the border of Spain.
▪ c. 14,800 BP / 12,800 BC - The Humid Period begins in North Africa. The region that would later become the Sahara is wet and fertile, and the Aquifers are full.
Mesolithic
Neolithic
▪ c. 8000 BC / 7000 BC - In northern Mesopotamia, now northern Iraq, cultivation of barley and wheat begins. At first, they are used for beer, gruel, and soup, eventually for bread. In early agriculture at this time, the Planting stick is used, but it is replaced by a primitive Plow in subsequent centuries. Around this time, a round stone tower, now preserved to about 8.5 meters high and 8.5 meters in diameter is built in Jericho.
Chalcolithic
▪ c. 3700 BC - Cuneiform writing appears and records begin to be kept.
c. 3000 BC - Stonehenge construction begins. In its first version, it consisted of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
From: Wikipedia “Prehistory”
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Timeline of human evolution
160.000 years ago: Homo sapiens in Ethiopia, Awash River, Herto village, practice mortuary rituals and butcher hippos. Potential earliest evidence of behavioral modernity consistent with the continuity hypothesis including use of red ochre and fishing.
150,000 years ago: Mitochondrial Eve is a woman that lived in East Africa. She is the statistically expected most recent female ancestor common to all mitochondrial lineages in humans alive today. Note that there is no evidence of any characteristic or genetic drift that significantly differentiated her from the contemporary social group she lived with at the time. Her ancestors were Homo sapiens and her mother had the same mtDNA.
70,000 years ago: Appearance of mitochondrial haplogroup L2. Behavioral modernity, according to the "great leap forward" theory.
60,000 years ago: Y-chromosomal Adam lives in Africa. He is the most recent common ancestor from whom all male human Y chromosomes are descended. Appearance of mitochondrial haplogroups M and N, which participate in the migration out of Africa Homo sapiens that leave Africa in this wave start interbreeding with the Neanderthals they encounter.
40,000 years ago: Migration of South Asia. M168 Migration mutation (carried by all non-African males). Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. M. t-haplogroups U, K.
40,000 years ago: Migration to Australia and Europe (Cro-Magnon).
25,000 years ago: The independent Neanderthal lineage dies out. Y-Haplogroup R2; mt-haplogroups J, X.
12,000 years ago: Beginning of the Mesolithic/Holocene. Y-Haplogroup R1a; mt-haplogroups V, T. Evolution of light skin in Europeans. Homo Floresiensis dies out, leaving Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution
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I realize this hasn’t answered my question or mortality rates but in putting this done and reading over careful I am put into the flow of the human species on Earth. I suppose it is ‘romance’ but input is coming from mind and I assume heart or soul because I can ‘feel’ the general flow, the sequence, almost river-like from then to now. A meandering not so wide river, less wide than the Ohio at Cincinnati, but wider than the Little Miami at Milford, Ohio with few rapids and small waterfalls along the way.
The Little Miami at Milford, Ohio
And
The Ohio River at Cincinnati (from N. Kentucky)
Poetic imagery accepted. A goo
d place to post. Almost time for the national news. – Amorella.
Dusk, just after twenty-one hundred hours. Earlier you and Carol went for a drive up beyond Lebanon, Ohio and stopped for a melon and four ears of fresh corn. Then, once home and after a good dinner of new corn on the cob, the news, and last night’s Masterpiece Theatre where again, Poirot, solved the murder, this time of a child drowned with the apple in a pot during a Halloween party.
I would like to come to some estimate at the number of the Dead between 14,000 years ago and 700 BCE. The estimates for today are much easier to come by. Slowly I am drawing myself a larger picture and figures, even the roughest of estimates along the way, will make it more credible to the reader. I am thinking of Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and how he used mathematics for emphasis to transpose his satirical fantasy into a kind of reality for those in the business of buying and selling food for the marketplace.
You have the Internet at your disposal. Perhaps you can discover some numbers that can be made to work.
To count a heartansoulanmind with a number seems somewhat blasphemous, like a body count after a losing battle with life, but people like to count things. Lord, what do the dead mathematicians and actuaries; those sincere lovers of numbers, do for pleasure?
Count their blessings, boy. – Amorella.
You are such a wit, Amorella. I shall continue searching tonight and tomorrow. If nothing reasonable is found I’ll move on and come back to it later.
Sounds like a plan. Later, dude. Post. – Amorella.
Surprisingly, to me, I have the information in twelve pages of about five sources in about an hour. I will have to go through this and come up with estimates tomorrow.
I will work with you on this so that it meets the criteria for the realm of plausibility for the books, and I will add an aside when the time comes that all humans from the point of Mother Eve (DNA-wise) will eventually be included in book six, at least roughly. Post. – Amorella.
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