Concretion from Alaska.
Concretion from Lake Superior.
Posted on 06/30/2008 8:26:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca by a French-Moroccan team co-led by Jean-Paul Raynal... This mandible is the oldest human fossil uncovered from scientific excavations in Morocco. The discovery will help better define northern Africa's possible role in first populating southern Europe. A Homo erectus half-jaw had already been found at the Thomas I quarry in 1969, but it was a chance discovery and therefore with no archeological context... The morphology of these remains is different from the three mandibles found at the Tighenif site in Algeria that were used, in 1963, to define the North African variety of Homo erectus, known as Homo mauritanicus, dated to 700,000 B.C. The mandible from the Thomas I quarry was found in a layer below one where the team has previously found four human teeth (three premolars and one incisor) from Homo erectus, one of which was dated to 500,000 B.C. The human remains were grouped with carved stone tools characteristic of the Acheulian civilization and numerous animal remains (baboons, gazelles, equines, bears, rhinoceroses, and elephants), as well as large numbers of small mammals, which point to a slightly older time frame. Several dating methods are being used to refine the chronology.
(Excerpt) Read more at alphagalileo.org ...
Interesting article, but why the emphasis on stone tools?
Ancient rock “carved faces” found: Sign of lost race, or geological processes?
BBC News/Science | Monday, 20 October, 2003 | Dr David Whitehouse
Posted on 10/20/2003 9:58:38 AM PDT by yankeedame
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1004461/posts
Erectus Ahoy (Stone Age Voyages)
Science News | 10-22-2003 | Bruce Bower
Posted on 10/22/2003 12:28:49 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1006058/posts
First Mariners
Archaeology | Volume 51 Number 3 May/June 1998 | Mark Rose
Posted on 09/25/2004 12:44:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1226673/posts
Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull
Associated Press | 8/22/05 | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI
Posted on 08/22/2005 9:43:45 PM EDT by anymouse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1468611/posts
Neanderthal Man Floated Into Europe, Say Spanish Researchers
The Guardian (UK) | 1-16-2006 | Giles Tremlett
Posted on 01/16/2006 6:13:24 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559199/posts
What’s the objection to emphasing the evidence they actually find?
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Ooh, weird... double post... that’s not supposed to happen like that...
OK! I see. Thanks for the additional info.
Concretion from Alaska.
Concretion from Lake Superior.
Acheulian Goddess
The Oldest Human Image
Until the past few decades, the famous Willendorf Goddess, carved of bone 30,000 years ago, was held to be the earliest human-crafted work of art and veneration.
The Acheulian Goddess predates Willendorf by an amazing quarter-million years, and may be as old as 800,000 years! It is remarkable to note the similarities between the Willendorf and the far older Acheulian.
Both figures are distinctly female, great-breasted with featureless head and discrete limbs. Using flint tools, the maker of the Acheulian Goddess intentionally adapted an existing small stone, which already had breast-like Mother Goddess features, by adding incised grooves delineating the head and arms. Like Willendorf, the Acheulian appears to have a groove suggestive of the sacred vulva.
This Paleolithic image offers breathtaking evidence that our worship of the divine feminine could have extended up to 250,000 years deeper into hunter-gatherer antiquity than previously suspected! In the face of this discovery, 3,500 years of current patriarchy pales to insignificance.
Clearly the old, ecology-centered goddess values have been with us for a vaster sweep of time than our recent misadventures of war and exploitation. And now we choose to reclaim those older values.
Sacred Source is proud to be the only available source for this reproduction, which is based on drawings and photographs from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archeology, where the original is housed. Hold her in your hand to feel her shape, fecundity and power.
[232,000 - 800,000 BCE] Ganges Clay. #AC
Amazing.
Comparing concretions to the Acheulian Goddess, sorry about the obscure post...but I do that all the time.
Thanks!
I used to date a woman like that.
Archaeologists uncover caveman bling
May 7, 2008 - 6:28AM
AFP
RABAT - Archaeologists have uncovered shells used for finery by prehistoric man 85,000 years ago in a cave in eastern Morocco, the country’s heritage institute said today.
A research team led by archaeology and heritage institute (INSAP) member Abdeljalil Bouzouggar and Nick Barton from Oxford University found the 20 perforated shells in a cave near Taforalt between March and April this year.
The Nassarius gibbosulus shells are the type prehistoric man would have worn, according to a statement from the Moroccan Ministry for Culture.
In 2007, Bouzouggar and Barton discovered 14 perforated shells in the same cave.
“This discovery shows that the making and use of objects of finery is very anchored in the traditions of Morocco’s prehistoric people,” said Bouzouggar, in whose opinion the country is the original centre of artistic and symbolic creation.
Objects of finery discovered in Morocco are “now considered to be even more ancient than those discovered in Algeria, South Africa and in Palestine”, said the culture ministry.
Known as the “cave of pigeons”, the 30-metre deep and 10-metre high cave is situated 50km from Morocco’s Mediterranean coast.
'Oldest sculpture' found in MoroccoA 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture... The object, which is around six centimetres in length, is shaped like a human figure, with grooves that suggest a neck, arms and legs. On its surface are flakes of a red substance that could be remnants of paint. The object was found 15 metres below the eroded surface of a terrace on the north bank of the River Draa near the town of Tan-Tan. It was reportedly lying just a few centimetres away from stone handaxes in ground layers dating to the Middle Acheulian period, which lasted from 500,000 to 300,000 years ago... A 200,000-300,000-year-old stone object found at Berekhat Ram in Israel in 1986 has also been the subject of claims that it is a figurine. However, several other researchers later presented evidence to show that it was probably shaped by geological processes.
by Paul Rincon
new article, similar, almost posted the whole thing again.
Acheulian human remains found in Morocco
ed by Fang Yang
Xinhua
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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