Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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The Pinnacle Along the Appalachian Trail

Live Reporting / December 5, 2024 / environmental history, religion, U.S. natural parks

This giant pile of rocks lies close to an outlook called The Pinnacle along the Appalachian Trail, and is an example of a “cairn,” albeit…

Toxic Death Cap Mushrooms

Ancient History, Live Reporting / December 10, 2024 / environmental history, history of food, political history, Rome

Displayed here are the “Amanita Phalloides,” the “Death Cap” mushrooms responsible for 90% of fatalities caused by mushroom poisonings in the world today, and favored…

a skull without a lower jaw, plaster fills in the eyes and nose and shells are place into the eyes

Neolithic Death Rights

Ancient History / July 24, 2024 / anthropology, archaeology, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, pre-history, religion, social history, women's history

Might I introduce to you Monsieurs and/or Madames skulls “D 111” and “D 112”? For such boring names, these heads – carefully plastered, tended to…

Meadowcroft Rockshelter

Ancient History, Live Reporting / November 21, 2024 / anthropology, archaeology, Natural Parks, pre-history

The earliest date that humans first settled in the Americas is something anthropologists do not agree upon – yet. Although whole-genome DNA processing might someday…

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