Modern Humans Made Their Point

Science Magazine ^ | 2005-04-22 | Ann Gibbons

[null and void]

*shrug* I studied engineering.

When Quest for Fire premiered, I saw it at a theater in Hollywood. When the heroes returned to the tribe, and were met by the heavies, they used spear throwers.

I was so startled by this that I said ALTATLS!! out loud.

Got an odd look from my date and a couple people around us...

[null and void]

Ray day dingalinga Chong?

[Old Professer]

The spear point was invented when the first caveman sat on a thorn.

[Cultural Jihad]

I don't [see] the point of this piece except for the afrocentrism. There's no science at all here.

Supposedly no one is supposed to mention that modern man originated in Africa?! Is there some study purporting that afrophobes see everything as afrocentric?

[BenLurkin]

Now I'm getting carried away . . .

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[blam]

"I was so startled by this that I said ALTATLS!! out loud."

I did the same. I said, "they got it right", out loud, when I was watching the movie The Last Samurai. The Last Samurai was one of the tallest guys in the movie...that was because they were Ainu.

[null and void]

I guess we're stuck being Abby Normal. I think it's all the chemicals in the wafer fabs...

[BenLurkin]

Yes -- I enjoyed that movie. Of course I was much younger then and presumably my tastse have matured . . .

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

please.

now cite carbon dating for the stones that were chipped into arrowheads..........and follow it up with carbon dating for the labor in question on said stones.

Absent that, this is more afrocentrismic therapy.

[DJ Taylor]

"I was so startled by this that I said ALTATLS!! out loud."

You probably got the odd looks because you mispronounced ATLATL.

[null and void]

*snrk* No typo goes unpunished...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin, for the ping. Will ping the list when I get back home.

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[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

Archaic Genes in Modern People?
Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Elizabeth Culotta
Posted on 04/23/2005 8:30:41 PM PDT by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1389975/posts

[Cultural Jihad]

Professional anthropologists might have a better explanation, but I believe science uses carbon dating or other methodologies on the surrounding matter, not on the stones themselves.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Professional anthropologists might have a better explanation

yeah.....esp french egyptologists and their faithful, right?

[Cultural Jihad]

yeah.....esp french egyptologists and their faithful, right?

I'm very sorry that you are not making much sense. Shea and Brooks don't sound French to me. Must be . . . Parisian afrocentric names, eh?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

I guess you haven't looked into afrocentrism seriously, as I have. Its institutional origin is largely french "egyptologists", and the largest and most fervent propagators of the myths are here in the US......I guess you COULD blame it on Leakey's showmanship after finding the oldest skull on earth just sitting on that rock in the sun around the bend, waiting for him to find it and write its history. Kinda like telling a story around a circle, nome sain?

[Cultural Jihad]

Why not start a thread assailing afrocentrism if it so all-important to you for some obscure reason? (sheesh)

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

OK, go ahead :)