The material may be that old.....but that doesn’t mean the carvings are that old. Any “when” is an assumption. That’s what has always bothered me about their work.
I chalk this up (for now) to headline writing / clickbait as this has nothing to do with evolution. It is a marker in the geographic spread of humankind and that is sufficiently interesting of itself. By what I read on line, this was likely between 2 glaciation eras in Poland as the last one is dated to around 21k years ago.
Wow! More than 40,000 years before Earth was created.
Too bad some of the punch holes are missing. If one had the exact number a numerical relationship might be made.
Horse hockey.
From it...
...The Stajnia Cave plate is a personal 'jewellery' object that was created 41,500 calendar years ago...
SNORT.
Science, of any type, today is an utter frakin’ joke, if not a mockery.
“That makes it the earliest piece of ornate jewelry ever found in Eurasia,...”
“Ornate”? Its got a hole and some indentations.
Supposedly the Homo Sapien branch of the tree of life emerged ~200,000 years ago (some sources think nearer to 300,000). And equally supposedly, they were in essence physically identical to modern humans, which, among other things, means an equally developed brain. So they would have had the same intellectual capacity as we do today.
Which is why I am disinclined to believe that after 160,000 years, this was the best early modern humans could do. I am more inclined to believe they made art even more sophisticated than this long before this but either it didn’t survive or we simply haven’t yet dug in the right places.
It bears mention that Gobekli Tepe wasn’t unearthed until 1995. And Gobekli Tepe proved that the African diaspora occurred at least 5000 years earlier than previously thought. So if an entire city could remain hidden for that long, how elusive might the odd piece of jewelry be?
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