Posted on 08/23/2009 7:08:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Abstract: In Eurasia, the period between 40,000 and 30,000 BP saw the replacement of Neandertals by anatomically modern humans (AMH) during and after the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. The human fossil record for this period is very poorly defined with no overlap between Neandertals and AMH on the basis of direct dates. Four new 14C dates were obtained on the two adult Neandertals from Spy (Belgium). The results show that Neandertals survived to at least 36,000 BP in Belgium and that the Spy fossils may be associated to the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician, a transitional techno-complex defined in northwest Europe and recognized in the Spy collections. The new data suggest that hypotheses other than Neandertal acculturation by AMH may be considered in this part of Europe. [American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 138 Issue 4, Pages 421-428, Online: November 10, 2008, Received: 23 July 2008; Accepted: 12 September 2008]
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author list: Patrick Semal, Helene Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Cecile Jungels, Damien Flas, Anne Hauzeur, Bruno Maureille, Mietje Germonpre, Herve Bocherens, Stephane Pirson, Laurence Cammaert, Nora De Clerck, Anne Hambucken, Thomas Higham, Michel Toussaint, and Johannes van der Plicht
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The gives the RC date as 36,000 years b.p., and a well-known ex-FReeper estimates the calibrated age to be more like 40,000 years b.p. |
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I can understand why Spy magazine chose to use that name rather than Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician Magazine.
They think yer dead!
LOL!
BP - is that the new politically correct talk for anti-Christians?
Heck, I feel fine.
“BP - is that the new politically correct talk for anti-Christians?”
BP = Before Present
It’s shorthand for saying 30 to 40,000 years ago. Nothing nefarious about it that I know of.
It refers to “before present”; in radiocarbon dating ‘present’ is 1950, the year used as the baseline because that’s when RC dating was pioneered.
If BP were anti-Christian, it would stand for “Before Pilate” or maybe “Before Paul”. But A) it isn’t anti-Christian, B) SunkenCiv isn’t anti-Christian, and C) nothing about this topic is anti-Christian.
Thanks for your explanation. I was familiar with the anti-Christian BCE, but I wasn’t familiar with BP, except in the context of large oil companies.
Thanks. See my reply to SC above.
I haven’t felt ya, so I can’t argue.
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