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Mesolithic house reconstruction at UCD, Dublin A wonderful archaeological reconstruction from my UCD

Mesolithic house reconstruction at UCD, Dublin


A wonderful archaeological reconstruction from my UCD colleagues. Really wish I could have been there to help with it! This house fundamentally questions much of what we think we know about Mesolithic settlement in Ireland and Britain.


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You are a mammal. A very very long time ago, you were a fish. You decided that you shouldn’t stay in the water and should go on land, because land is safer because all of your predators are in the water. Oops! You need lungs for that. Okay so you make some lungs, and then some legs. You still need the water though, so you stay by it and go in and out.

Now you are an amphibian. Welcome to being a salamander. But this seems really inconvenient - you lay eggs but you live on land and in water. It would probably be easier to stick to one. So you decide to make your eggs have a hard protective shell, to keep the water in. Thats a good idea! Now do the same thing to your body. Now you have skin. Skin is actually pretty fragile so lets add some protection. Slap some scales on.

Welcome to being a reptile. Its a land full of giant insects. So you stay small and bide your time until the insects get smaller. And then you get bigger. And bigger. Until you’re the biggest thing on land. You look like a lizard but you act like a mammal. You hunt your prey. Some of your prey hunts plants. Works out nice. But it could be better. You still need the sun to warm you up. So why don’t you start making your own warmth?

Welcome to being warm blooded. You start to grow weird long, thin scales that is called fur, while other reptiles start to get crazy big. You decide its better to stay small for now. You can hide. You can run. Your neighbors keep growing, getting bigger, and their skeletons fill up with air pockets. They also make body coverings, but they’re long and flat. They are called dinosaurs. Some of them stay cold blooded and stay near the water, getting harder scales and needing less food to keep up their metabolism. These are crocodilians.

You stay small until space decides to blow up the planet. All the big reptiles are gone, so you take over and get bigger now. You decide its easier to grow your eggs inside of you and give birth to live babies instead of waiting around a nest for that time. But they cant really eat, so you create a special gland for milk. The little reptiles that are left have learned to fly, and now are called birds. Some of the other side stay small. Turn into lizards, snakes, turtles and the crocodiles are still here somehow.

Blah blah blah you start walking on two legs and losing hair. Now you are a person. You are a human being. You have been a reptile, and you have been an amphibian and a fish. But now you are you! And I think thats pretty cool.

The only animal type you didnt get to be was a bird, and thats because they had a better idea at the same time and got to it first. Bummer.

Who’s the true king?

Tyrannosaurus rex= Tyrant lizard king

Magnapaulia= B I G P A U L

How to ruin your reputation and IQ with one sticker

The usual pet for a Disney villian, or evil pirate, is a crow or a parrot. But seriously, some toucans just look designed to be some cackling lovable villian of madness

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