MSU New Sonoma
Anthropology 110
Pre-Modern Terrestrial Socialization

Until recent years, technology has limited our ability to comprehend the behavior of humans that lived around the turn of the millennium. More than fifty years later, many scholars and academics have struggled to explain the wave of self-destructive behavior exhibited by the recently identified subset of humans known as homo sapiens avarus that characterized the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Computer simulations have produced plausible and reasonably accurate models of interaction in the relatively abstract realms of behavior political and economic terms. However, current programming language struggles to dive deeper into the social lives of the long-embattled homo genus. Calculating social behavior has proven a difficult or impossible task for the Supercomputers. Liquid quantum intelligence drives, though capable of making probabilistic decisions to within a millionth of a percentage point's accuracy, are no more capable of predicting homo sapiens avarus' decision matrices than they were before acquiring consciousness.

Refusing to submit myself to their defeat, this aspiring anthropologist proposes a different approach to studying our recent ancestors. From primitive computer drives recovered at a terrestrial excavation site in the heart of the U.S. State of Northern California, I have recovered credible written documentation of then-modern homo sapiens' behavior and thought.

Our group cannot say with certainty whether the author (or authors) of these accounts belonged to a homo sapiens subset such as avarus or whether they belonged to the genetic lines which survive today. I would like to express optimism that our group will be capable of beginning to answer this question by the end of this study, which will publish in stages as we carry out thorough investigation of the materials we've recovered.

Though the site where we recovered our source of information is more than 55 million kilometers distant, I've never felt closer to our recent ancestors than I have during the months spent poring over these accounts. I will present the writings as I find them, in their raw state. Our group will annotate the excerpts as necessary in attempts to identify common threads and explain homo sapiens' behavior (when possible.)

Without further ado, let us begin the study.