100,000-year-old human skull found

China Daily ^ | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

That just triggers recollections of a deeply disturbing image. In fact, I don't even have to post the image itself, everyone will just hallucinate her face, possibly with some odd, surreal, dreamlike alterations.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

In fact, I told them twice.

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory
Stephen Chen
Thursday, January 24, 2008
South China Morning Post

...an anatomically modern Homo sapiens nearly 100,000 years old. If the estimate is correct and if the skull, broken into 16 pieces seemingly by a powerful strike, demonstrates a feature of the East Asian population, then one of palaeoanthropology's paradigms - "Out of Africa" - may be shattered... Chinese palaeoanthropologists have unearthed some evidence in the past few decades - some teeth, bones, flint tools and domestic animal remains. But what they found was scant, partial or indirect compared with remains found in Africa - an arid, less populated and largely exposed continent where conditions for fossil preservation and discovery are nearly perfect... The preliminary result of optically stimulated luminescence dating completed by Peking University shows that the age of the skull ranges from 80,000 to 100,000 years.

[Dustbunny]

I believe very little of what comes out of China. Proof of what they say needs to be verified by outsiders. They are Communists and all Communists are excellent liars.

[blam]

Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory

That should have been the headline on the lead article. (It will get lots more attention)

[colorado tanker]

Color me skeptical. The DNA evidence seems strongly supportive of out of Africa.

[BGHater]

Please add me to your GGG list. Thx.

[SunkenCiv]

There isn’t any DNA evidence that does that. There has been plenty of spin in that regard, though. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

It won’t be long before the dating is condemned, starting with Chris Stringer. Speaking of replacement, he needs that.

[SunkenCiv]

Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human;
Points To Modern Health Issues
Science Daily | 12-7-2007 | University of Texas at Austin.
Posted on 12/07/2007 8:10:26 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1936456/posts

[blam]

"The DNA evidence seems strongly supportive of out of Africa."

Yup.

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)

Maybe humans from Asia migrated to Africa...then, Toba killed everyone except those who went to Africa. That would explain the DNA. We need some really old human DNA, huh?

[colorado tanker]

?Maybe humans from Asia migrated to Africa...then, Toba killed everyone except those who went to Africa. That would explain the DNA. We need some really old human DNA, huh?

Yup, that would explain it, alright. :-))

[SunkenCiv]

sidebar:

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[SunkenCiv]

Fossilised skull may end row over origin of 1.3bn Chinese
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Thursday January 24, 2008
The Guardian
Additional reporting by Chen Shi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2245680,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,332218485-108142,00.html