Bulgarian Archaeologists Preserve Skeleton of '1st European Man'

Novinite.com ^ | June 9, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski together with "Hristo", the 8000-skeleton before its transfer to the Vratsa Museum. Photo by Darik Radio

The 8000-year-old skeleton of a young man found near the village of Ohoden has been taken to the Regional History Museum in Vratsa.

The skeleton, already dubbed by the Bulgarian media as “the first European”, was discovered recently by archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski who specializes in paleolithic settlements. It belonged to a 35-year-old man with a height of 165 cm.

This is the fourth 800-year-old skeleton found in the Valoga region near Ohoden, and the first one belonging to a man.

“We are uncovering a so far unknown prehistoric culture in Northwest Bulgaria which corresponds to the settlements in today's Serbia along the Morava River. One of the aims of our studies is to test the theory about the so called “Danube Road” of the spreading of the first settlements with economic production,” archaeologist Ganetsovski said.

[SunkenCiv]

;’) The best part is, beer was invented about 5000 years before someone invented cups, so the cavemen had to guzzle it straight from the still. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

prehistoric lake europe site:freerepublic.com

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[Tainan]

Interesting visual comes to mind.
Ogg & Gogg hard at work chipping out a large stone vat to keep their beer in.
Ogg watches Gogg and suddenly sees a bamboo, maybe something else, stick is hollow in the middle.
Insert light bulb above Oggs' head.
Next pic, Ogg is chopping a larger bamboo/wood piece and making a cup.

Beer...The Mother of Invention!


Remembering the inventiveness of dope smokers making pipes and roach clips, I don't think it took 5000 yrs before the "cup" made its appearance...;)

[gleeaikin]

Though this is an interesting link, it is not what I remember. The Geographic article was in the 1970s. The site was a settlement mound accumulated to a height of 50 feet. The people had build on the same location all those years, and I think they estimated that each foot represented debris from about a hundred years of living. Since it had not been lived on continuously the final figure was either 8,000 or 6,000 old. I do seem to remember it was in Bulgaria.

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