But there's a creeping Anywheresville to the modern arrivals.
The influences of other, more modern, arrivals were being felt during my visit – locals hummed with excitement about the imminent opening of their first supermarket.
Some new arrivals, like the Modern itself, will eventually reopen in Manhattan, but by setting up shop in Queens even for just a few years, they, too, have made a statement about a borough that rightly or wrongly splashed into the national consciousness with the couch-potato know-nothing culture of Archie Bunker, rather than with any cutting-edge art scene.
Actually, the borough has quietly been evolving for years as a locale for artists and museums, of which the Modern's arrival is only the latest sign.
Autochthonous mtDNA lineages of ISEA, Melanesia and Australia support a long-term in situ development and date the first modern human arrival to >48 kya [ 3, 5, 14, 26, 28- 30, 32- 34].
"That's really recent in terms of anatomically modern humans". The arrival of the new labiodentals may have driven a fresh diversification of language across Europe and Asia.
Whereas most of these postwar musicians worked out their individual styles through personal explorations within the central modern tradition, the arrival of saxophonist Ornette Coleman and trumpeter Donald Cherry constituted an even more radical break from the recent past.
Diez and his colleagues argued that the painting was so old, in fact, that it might predate modern man's arrival in this part of the world, and thus may actually be the work of a Neanderthal.
Such evolution, which entails the independent development of cultural innovations typically found in subsequent cultures of the Upper Paleolithic, would have been truncated, before the CI event, by the arrival of modern or Neanderthal-modern hybrid populations bearing the Proto-Aurignacian material culture.
The picture that seems to be emerging from the new dating is that the arrival of modern humans added to their problems, according to Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
