illustration depicting 3 women from Europe’s earliest cultures. The Aurignacian people. By Tom Björklund.

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  1. This photo needs to be shared more, there is nothing more pleasing for ears than hearing the panicked screeching of triggered racists.

    Edit: ok, now I don’t understand what’s the downvotes for. Are there really so many racists on r/europe?

  2. >The Aurignacian (/ɔːrɪɡˈneɪʃən/) is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with European early modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago

    looks about right.

  3. I suppose you know you’re a mum when the first thing you think is “yay, baby wearing!”🙈😂
    I love facial reconstruction so much—just being able to glimpse into the past and see what people probably looked like (I know it’s not 100% perfect) is so amazing ☺️

  4. I’m 100% sure they where not modern day African. It makes 0% sense since it basically says Africans didn’t evolve.

    Which is ironic because the author clearly tired to be progressive yet made it like Africans are the least evolved race and stuck in stone age.

  5. What happened to these people? Most of our languages derive from Proto-Indo-European. Did the PIE’s drive out these people? Or conquer them and impose their language on them?

  6. A lot of science publications were eager in promoting the idea that fairly recent Europeans were essentially black, but this was based on [bad, or at least incomplete, science](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/). The more common thinking now is that people of this era had a skin tone more similar to modern Middle Eastern populations.

    The reason as to why you likely haven’t heard about this change in thinking is because some outlets are fearful that it would embolden far-right extremists, [seriously](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731673-200-does-cheddar-man-show-there-is-such-a-thing-as-bad-publicity/).

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