'Oldest star chart' found

BBC NEWS ^ | Tuesday, 21 January, 2003, 10:50 GMT | By Dr David Whitehouse

[Nick Thimmesch]

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[Nick Thimmesch]

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[Lancey Howard]

Excellent analysis.

First, it is the number of days that must be subtracted from a year to equal the average number of days of a human gestation. This is no coincidence, says Dr Rappenglueck..... It is also the number of days that one of Orion's two prominent stars, Betelguese, is visible. To ancient man, this might have linked human fertility with the gods in the sky.

Baloney.
The "mysterious Aurignacian people" who "moved into Europe from the east supplanting the indigenous Neanderthals" some 32,500 years ago probably had more urgent priorities than keeping track of silly statistics like this, even if you believe that the earth was spinning at the same speed and the gestation period for prehistoric girls was 9 months and these people kept track of gestation periods over the years and averaged everything out to come up with a single number and... ah, heck with it.
This is off the baloney-meter.

[ASA Vet]

Mammoth tusks grow on mammoths, and mammoths don't exactly grow on a farm

They will be after a few dozen have been cloned.
Mammoth steak?

[Temple Owl]

The very politically correct Evolutionists at the Museum of Natural History in New York City have opened a show called "The First Europeans" about 400,000-year-old "grandparents" of Neanderthals, which the museum president claims were cannibals.

Apparently it doesn't matter to these scholars that the first humans did not show up in Europe until about 40,000 years ago-- 360,000 years later. But is sounds good.

[AndrewC]

They will be after a few dozen have been cloned. Mammoth steak?

Raelian?

[Slyfox]

archaeologists have suggested that the man-like figure
could be praying or dancing, or be a half-man

[Aric2000]

Have you guys seen this?

Pretty cool stuff!!

[ASA Vet]

Raelian?

Naw, from what I've seen, they're only interested in cloning little girls, not steak.
I'm not sure which will produce the larger profit.

[PatrickHenry]

I donno about this. It's one thing for ancient people to look for people-patterns in the stars. But for someone to look for star-patterns in a picture of a person?

[johnny7]

Nah... no star chart. Just looks like the dude liked to whittle.

[metesky]

Is the "sword" sheathed or is it "en garde"?

[Junior]

Homo Sapien didn't show up till then. Homo Neanderthalensis had been in Europe for a long time by then.

[SunkenCiv]

Not a ping, just a GGG update.

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Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
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[ErnBatavia]

I've always wondered how FReepers can dig up a thread that's over 2 years old!

[Smokin' Joe]

With those hip hugger jeans, that's only a half moon. On many of us it's just "plumber's butt".

[evets]

Yup yup. That's 'Orion' for sure.

I'd recognize it anywhere. /sarc

[Smokin' Joe]

primordial cribbage board.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, I've got pizza boxes older than that.