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What is the secret of the Pit of Bones?
The First Post ^ | November 21, 2007 | Sean Thomas

Posted on 11/26/2007 11:01:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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It is my understanding that the Mediterranean Basin was composed of two large lakes in times past. I also have read that the ocean has been as much as 400 feet lower during various ice ages. If during one of the previous ice age mixima in the past million years there was mostly dry land with only a relatively small passage of water from ocean to Mediterranean I am sure it would have been possible for hominids to swim or raft across. Furthermore, how do we know that the current channel depth was not caused by erosion from rising ocean levels rushing in to fill the entire M basin? Perhaps it was much less deep in times past.


21 posted on 11/27/2007 9:25:13 PM PST by gleeaikin
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Before the “dam” broke, it was all dry land in the area between Africa and Spain, but that was prior to about 5.5 million years ago, when (presumably) there would have been no one around to walk across the landscape or live down there. The sealevels fell during glaciations, but the decline was greater as one got closer to the poles. Thus, the Bering Strait is very much deeper than the straits, but in recent years research has shown that the seabed used to be dry land, and very similar to current landscapes on either side of the water. :’)

Humans didn’t need the water to get shallow and narrow to cross on vessels, they had it goin’ on even 800K years ago.


22 posted on 11/27/2007 9:49:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, November 27, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Mammoth Herds ‘Roamed Fertile Bering Strait In Ice Age’
Ananova | 6-5-2003
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A New View of the Bering Land Bridge
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by Ned Rozell
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http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF13/1304.html


23 posted on 11/27/2007 10:09:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, November 27, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Whoops, “an average depth of 30–50 m (100–165 ft)”, but the point I was trying to make was, the seabed was exposed where the waters are now much deeper than this.


24 posted on 11/27/2007 10:11:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, November 27, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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In the mountains of northern Spain, archaeologists discovered a pit of bones 100ft underground. They soon realised they had a mystery on their hands when DNA analysis showed the bones didn't belong to modern humans nor Neanderthals - they were something new altogether and it looked like they had been murdered.

Video and animation: Dominika Ozynska and Adrian Hartrick

Commissioned by: Florence Craig
Have archaeologists found the missing link?
January 25, 2021 | BBC Reel
Have archaeologists found the missing link? | January 25, 2021 | BBC Reel
This topic was posted 11/26/2007, just an update to the message.

KEYWORDS: atapuerca; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neanderthal

25 posted on 07/19/2022 3:58:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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26 posted on 07/19/2022 4:03:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Well, a few listed up above were not in the keyword, or vice versa. Whoops.

27 posted on 07/19/2022 4:09:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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