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In 2015 I took an extended trip to Scotland and Scandinavia with a brief stop in Helsinki tacked on to the end of the trip’s schedule. Because I visited them all on a single trip and because of their geographic …

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Often, in researching the topics I include in this blog, I unearth topics that inevitably take me down a path that eventually becomes informationally extinct. Sometimes vague traces remain in the archive of my mind and other times there are …

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Sometimes I don’t know when to stop. In supplements two and three of the Moscow segment of my Olympic cities tour, we met some likely H. erectus hominins at Dmanisi and some early modern humans at Kostenki. But Dmanisi is …