Kiffians, Tenerians, and Awe
This morning I’ve been reading stories in the New York Times, Science Daily, and National Geographic, all based on the findings of Paul Serno and his colleagues and presented in a paper on PLos ONE. They tell of people who lived and died in the Sahara when the Sahara wasn’t dry, and the articles gave me that awe-filled, castles-in-the-air feeling that was so much more common in childhood, when the whole arc of human history seemed to whoosh up and past like a train.
Says John Nobel Wilford in the Times article:
A girl was buried wearing a bracelet carved from a hippo tusk. A man was seated on the carapace of a turtle.
And in the photo above, two children reach out to their mother for thousands of years.
Whoosh.