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Earliest known engravings found on a clam shell
Los Angeles Times ^
| December 4, 2014
| Deborah Netburn
Posted on 12/04/2014 6:52:25 PM PST by EveningStar
Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor.
The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were carved at least 430,000 years ago by a Homo erectus, an extinct hominid with a brain only slightly smaller than those of modern humans, researchers say.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: engraving; homoerectus
To: SunkenCiv
To: EveningStar
Right it wasn’t shark teeth ... ;)
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:02:47 PM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: EveningStar
It’s actually the earliest known evidence of climate change. It’s a graph of the co2 produced by their camp fires
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:02:59 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: EveningStar
... Homo erectus, an extinct hominid with a brain only slightly smaller than those of modern humans....
The author hasn't heard of the Fergeson protestors?
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:08:37 PM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!a)
To: EveningStar
Homo erectus. Isn’t that what happened at the last Barack Obama/Reggie Love get together?
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:16:13 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:17:51 PM PST
by
Dogbert41
(All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
To: EveningStar
Apparently it was this guy's phone contact list.
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:19:53 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: EveningStar
Back then, they used clam shells for lottery tickets. Poor Og didn’t win the new stick.
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posted on
12/04/2014 7:25:54 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ex91B10
... Homo erectus, an extinct hominid with a brain only slightly smaller than those of modern humans....
The author hasn't heard of the Fergeson protestors?Close enough. I was going to posit "Did they mean liberals?"
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posted on
12/04/2014 8:53:33 PM PST
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: EveningStar
It’s just some seagull getting the clam out.
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posted on
12/04/2014 8:54:23 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
To: EveningStar
The two letters are IM, as in:
I'M SORRY I ATE THIS RAW.
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posted on
12/04/2014 10:32:51 PM PST
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: Dogbert41
To: Dogbert41
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posted on
12/04/2014 10:41:10 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: EveningStar
That ain't so much, however if he would have proceeded “I M” with “I think, therefore”, then ya got something big time :)
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posted on
12/04/2014 10:44:42 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: EveningStar
Translated as “Legal tender for all debts, public and private”...
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posted on
12/05/2014 4:17:00 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: EveningStar
It says “Eat at Long John Silver’s.”
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/05/2014 4:26:10 AM PST
by
Bratch
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