Fossil from the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain. Photograph by Javier Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films/Washington Post
1 posted on
07/03/2014 4:02:58 AM PDT by
Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
07/03/2014 4:03:15 AM PDT by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
“... indicating they used their teeth as gripping tools..”
Does Mic Jagger use his mouth to “grip” things...one shouldn’t jump to conclusions to prove a point about skull formation...
3 posted on
07/03/2014 4:05:47 AM PDT by
BCW
(Amazon Books: "Babylon's Covert War" - the Iraq conflict explained in detail - by JH White)
To: Renfield; SunkenCiv
From the article:
"A key finding is the date of the fossils:
Six distinct techniques converge on an estimated age of roughly 430,000 years old.
One technique dated crystals of calcium carbonate that had built up on skulls at the bottom of shallow pools.
Another dated the light colored mud that sits atop the red mud in which the fossils are embedded. This precise dating makes the Sima fossils the oldest in the Neanderthal lineage and confirms that the ancestors of modern humans and the Neanderthal line diverged more than 430,000 years ago."
4 posted on
07/03/2014 4:11:19 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: Renfield
Helen Thomas photo in 5, 4, 3, ...
5 posted on
07/03/2014 4:26:17 AM PDT by
FroggyTheGremlim
("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
To: Renfield
“But has not yet given this new population a species name”
I hereby nominate the name
“Redskins”
7 posted on
07/03/2014 6:08:22 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Renfield
I wonder how many of their “findings” are simply supposition.
8 posted on
07/03/2014 6:10:36 AM PDT by
Rannug
("all enemies, foreign and domestic")
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