Thanks a fool in paradise.
Posted on 07/29/2021 7:42:14 PM PDT by blueplum
Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years, an international team reported on Wednesday.
The find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in North Africa of the Acheulian stone tool industry associated with a key human ancestor, Homo erectus, researchers on the team told journalists in Rabat
Before the find, the presence in Morocco of the Acheulian stone tool industry was thought to date back 700,000 years.
New finds at the Thomas Quarry I site, first made famous in 1969 when a human half mandible was discovered in a cave, mean the Acheulian there is almost twice as old.
The 17-strong team behind the discovery comprised Moroccan, French and Italian researchers, and their finding is based on the study of stone tools extracted from the site.
Moroccan archaeologist Abdelouahed Ben Ncer called the news a “chronological rebound”.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Homo habilis? The Handyman! of course!
thank you, I just learned what a homo habilis was nicknamed, but then I found rudolfensis, which (who?) I’d also never heard of
“While scientists used to think that H. habilis was the ancestor of Homo erectus, recent discoveries in 2000 of a relatively late 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis (KNM-ER 42703) and a relatively early 1.55 million-year-old H. erectus (KNM-ER 42700) from the same area of northern Kenya (Ileret, Lake Turkana) challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, this evidence - along with other fossils - demonstrate that they co-existed in Eastern Africa for almost half a million years.”
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-habilis
Originally considered to be H. habilis, the ways in which H. rudolfensis differs is in its larger braincase, longer face, and larger molar and premolar teeth. Due to the last two features, though, some scientists still wonder whether this species might better be considered an Australopithecus, although one with a large brain!... While their teeth were only slightly smaller than those seen in robust australopithecines, H. rudolfensis didn’t have the heavily-built jaw and strong jaw muscle attachments seen in robust early humans....
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-rudolfensis
Oh, they finally found Helen Thomas!!
They just make it up. Just like when you go to a National Park and they have signs everywhere saying billions of years.
No they didn’t find her, just her kitchenware from her starter house.
Thanks a fool in paradise.
That’s one scary dude.
What? Does he have a package between his legs?
Don’t touch my junk, man.
5.56mm
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