Editor's Note, October 13, 2023: This article originally misstated the remains were found more than a half century ago. We apologize for the error.Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture, with ARCCH permit
Posted on 10/22/2023 10:08:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Study co-author Margherita Mussi, an archaeologist at Sapienza University in Rome, and colleagues combined two techniques: argon-argon dating and a recently completed paleomagnetic dating analysis to fine-tune the site's ages. The fossil and Oldowan artifacts with it had previously been dated to 1.7 million to 1.8 million years ago, but revised ages now place them at some two million years old. The team also used advanced imaging technology to study the fossil and suggest which species it represents...
"Now we know, back to two million years ago, it's part of the array of environments that H. erectus occupied in Africa at that time," he adds. "But also it's the foreshadowing of all the different kinds of environments that H. erectus would move into and populate." By about 1.7 million years ago, they were found in China at 40 degrees north latitude, a pretty cold environment. And by about the same time, they were found in the Caucasus in what is now the country of Georgia, another cooler environment where Europe meets Asia...
The fossil was found with a variety of Oldowan tools. These tool types, which our distant ancestors began making at least 2.6 million years ago, were basic, including hammerstones for bludgeoning and sharp flakes that were struck off larger cores to provide a sharp cutting edge.
But in only slightly younger layers, relating to 1.95 million years ago, researchers unearthed some of the oldest known examples of early Acheulean lithic technology. Acheulean hand axes and cleavers represent a more sophisticated type of production. They were created by taking a large stone flake and painstakingly shaping it into an ax head by repeatedly striking and breaking smaller pieces off the edges.
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Editor's Note, October 13, 2023: This article originally misstated the remains were found more than a half century ago. We apologize for the error.Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture, with ARCCH permit
Miller Time?
Of all the scientific names they could have chosen, they HAD to pick “Homo erectus”??
The headline sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
Every man loves tools but without beer, there is no high life.
You reminded me of Archie Bunker’s definition of Homo Sapiens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pRMsbHepw
LOL! Can you imagine that show starting out today? The DemoMarxistNazis would be rioting
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They (homo erectus) survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago in their last stronghold of Java, Indonesia.
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We won’t match that. We won’t come close. First appearance of homo sapiens 300ishK years ago in Morocco. Only 1.7 million more years to take the record.
Yup.
LOL!
Lol!
Nope, especially if fools keep putting leftists and RINOs in power. I doubt we will even make it to the 2030s
An exceedingly unfortunate name.
They should sue.
Pete Shelley - “Homosapien”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
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