Posted on 08/09/2017 11:04:13 AM PDT by blam
Most people don't spend their free time imagining what it would be like to get on the subway and sit across from a 300,000-year-old person. But anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin isn't most people.
In June, Hublin published two papers in the highly-respected journal Nature suggesting that the first Homo sapiens — that is, the first members of our species — lived 100,000 years earlier than previously thought in a place that no one would have expected. They also had faces that looked surprisingly like ours.
”I’m not sure these people would stand out from a crowd today," said Hublin on a call with reporters shortly before his research was published.
Hublin's findings, while controversial, were generally greeted by other researchers in the community with excitement about the other kinds of research opportunities that could be opened up by this new idea.
"It really sets the world alight in terms of the possibilities for understanding the evolution of Homo sapiens," Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, told Business Insider in June. "It certainly means that we need to rethink our models."
Hublin is one of several anthropologists and archaeologists who are combing the planet for evidence that could rewrite various aspects of ancient human history. Together, they are answering burning questions about our origin story, from when and where the first Homo sapiens emerged to how the first people braved the icy passage between what is today Siberia and North America — and when they did it.
"It definitely challenges what most people learned in high school," Mikkel Winther Pedersen, a geogeneticist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark
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Ancient skulls that mirror ours? I don’t know; most of the people I know or encounter don’t seem to have ancient skulls. Except maybe Uncle Rufus.
Sounds like a funding scam. I have a theory that there are more theories than there are so called “Scientists”
Maybe it wasn't icy.
Forbidden Archaeology.
I see them at Walmart all the time.
Chicago’s West side is full of them.
I have a theory that "scientific" theories always track political imperatives.
I have a theory that “scientific” theories always track political imperatives. ....
And large sums of money.
Michael Cremo.
Since I believe the Bible is true, what effect would gravity have on bones after 600 years of living?
I have a theory that "scientific" theories always track political imperatives.
I have a theory that political imperatives always track the money.
I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together
With so much invested in the “out of Africa” scenario, too little thought has been put to the reality that homo erectus left Africa a very long time ago and even evolved into the “hobbits” in Southeast Asia. Why wouldn’t other groups of early human ancestors have evolved into something resembling us. Maybe the first Homo Sapiens “returned to Africa” rather than originated there?
So, ancient skulls had cell phones attached to them?
Yep, the redating of the San Diego site confirmed it. And I have personally been handed crude tools similar to Oldowan and Achulean found in situ and produced well before Clovis. We came more than once, the first time was during the last interglacial prior to this one.
And the lithics at Calico are pretty hard to ignore even though they have all been deemed as geofacts. Many of these would absolutely require the “Hammer and Anvil” method. Nature does not know how to do this one.
All we have to do is continue to dig past and under the flood silt layer and we will find more. But for some “superstitious” reason we do not allow this and Funding is threatened or cut off if we try. :)
It’s called knowledge control. They know but don’t want us to know for some reason...
Absolutely... But it’s heresy to even think about open dialog about this possibility. Yet the Amazon was a huge sustainable agricultural operation manipulated by man before man was in the new world. My great uncle followed a man made road from the coast of Brazil through the Andes to Lima Peru that still “doesn’t exist”. It just ain’t adding up. But there are more and more willing to reassess these finds with objectivity. :)
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