Yeah, it sez "48,000 B.C.E.".
Posted on 01/20/2019 5:53:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...and it was worn by a man!
The suspicion is that the tiara - or diadem - was made by Denisovans who are already known to have had the technology 50,000 or so years ago to make elegant needles out of ivory and a sophisticated and beautiful stone bracelet.
The tiara maybe the oldest of its type in the world.
It appears to have had a practical use: to keep hair out of the eyes; it's size indicates it was for male, not female, use.
Another theory, although related to tiaras made 20,000 years later by people living around river Yana in Yakutia is that they could have denoted the family or tribe of ancient man, acting like a passport or identity card...
Marks on it show it had 'wear and tear' before being discarded as broken in a cave that is seen by archaeologists as one of the most significant treasure troves of early man anywhere in the world.
There were, though, no religious symbols or ornaments on the woolly mammoth tiara - made at a time when the giant species still roamed Siberia with ancient man as a predator.
The Palaeolithic tiara can be dated to between 45,000 to 50,000 years, and was worn by a man with a large head, according to researcher Alexander Fedorchenko, from Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
The mall must have been closed, and the husband just remembered that tomorrow was her birthday?
I’d rather have one of Queen Elizabeth’s.
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Interesting.
A crown of posies would bring out his eyes.
It would only be horny if a female wooly mammoth tiara happened to be near by.
The Twink is strong with this one.
I would love to see them!
I was thinking it could as easily be a handle of some sort. Tie it to a "bucket" or pouch of water to make carrying easier. The headband seems impractical 'cause it would keep slipping down from sweat. Maybe you could pull your hair back and tie the headband string at the nape of your neck.
Can you say “HOMO”? He’s way too pretty to be straight!
Are they sure? The Denisovans were big fellas and gals going by their finger and teeth fossils.
Part of one finger bone was the initial find, since then three teeth, the last one being a child's milk tooth. The genome is all we've got, there's not enough for morphologists to work out, other than they were somewhat similar in size to us.
It may well have been a burial item, some adornment of the body of the deceased. The whole cave could have been a charnel house, for all we know, wouldn't surprise me. There's been a "cave man" model in use pretty much since the discovery of cave art, and Erectus remains were found walled up inside caves, and the first (and many subsequent) Neandertal remains. It's be analogous to saying that the Egyptians lived in their tombs.
Thanks trisham.
Yeah, it sez "48,000 B.C.E.".
Link didn’t work.
Oh, sorry, I thought my poor old machine was having the trouble, guess the whole thing is blocked, inactive, or something.
Thanks ... funny.
Oh, and good thing I speak French.
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