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India is moving fast

  • Now 50 million years ago, the continental plate of India collided with that of Asia, resulting in the formation of the Himalayan mountain range. The movement of continental plates is known, but the speed of the Indian can be said to be Formula 1. Every year it moves 20 centimeters, while the rest of the continental plates only make 20 or 40 millimeters.
At the National Terrestrial Science Laboratory in Postdam, Germany, the Rainer Kind team has just revealed that they have found the reason for such high speed. The key seems to lie in the depth of India’s continental plates: The plate of India is 100 kilometers long and the rest is between 180 and 200 kilometers long.140

million years ago all the continents were united, forming the giant Gondwana. When they began to divide, each continental plate took its own path, and since then it has been the Indian that has moved the most. It's obvious why.

We humans started to dive into the sea earlier than we thought.

According to a group of international anthropologists, when the 160,000-year-old hominids began to develop the customs of today’s man, they lived in southern Africa and on the seashore.

In the area of Pinnacle Point in South Africa there is an incredibly beautiful view of the Indian Ocean; now the humans who lived there 164,000 years are considered pioneers of the customs we have today. Shells of molluscs, stones used and utensils have been found in the cave, and from their study it has been established that the man of that time also lived by the sea.

Until now the relationship between man and the sea was estimated to be 100,000 years old, but the aforementioned discovery has anticipated the beginning of the history of this relationship in 60,000 years. The instruments found are mainly arrows and sticks; although their use was now estimated to have begun 40,000 years ago, according to the findings made, they began to be used 120,000 years earlier.

In addition, the use of a pigment called hematite has also been demonstrated. This pigment is related to the customs of modern humans, since it has an association with various rituals, but it has been difficult to give dates for the beginning of these rituals until now.

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