Posted on 02/20/2023 8:57:11 PM PST by zeestephen
ROTFL!!!
> The Younger Dryas wiped out a heck of a lot of humans 11k+ years ago.
well i have a bone or two to pick with this younger dryas guy then
MSN.com is a news aggregator.
MSN.com paid Discover for the right to publish the article.
MSN.com curates the best and most interesting articles every day so you and I do not have read 50 different news sources trying to find them ourselves.
MSN.com also buys and publishes dozens of articles that are locked behind pay walls, articles that would be inaccessible unless we individually subscribe to that particular website.
Just my opinion - people who despise MSN.com, which is the third most visited English language news site in the world, have a very peculiar mania.
Why?
Maybe there was a world wide event like oh I don’t know maybe a flood
Re: "choice nugget of hogwash"
11,700 years ago, the Earth was slowly but steadily warming from the last Glacial Maximum, which occurred about 20,000 years ago.
In a period of just a couple decades, ice cores in Greenland show that the average temperature in Greenland dropped by 18 degrees F!
An event like that today would probably kill hundreds of millions of humans, because of crop failures and a shortage of energy for heating.
Agh! Zagmahg borrow flint and flaker. Never bring back.
Too late, I’ve already posted instructions to upload a virus to the mothership.
The Elder Dryas was apparently totally bereft of parenting skills.
Modern Homo Sapiens did not show up until 200,000 years ago.
This discovery took place just a couple hundred miles from where the Lucy fossils were discovered.
Lucy was more ape than human.
The tools were just flaked rocks.
Carbon dating only works for organic molecules and can only date accurately to about 50,000 years ago.
The discovered tools were found in the East African Rift area in the northeast region of the African continent.
There have been perhaps 100 or more parts of the African Rift that have been dated since 1970, including the famous Lucy fossils.
It is always possible that the dating is wrong - but, it is NOT just a one time measurement of an area that has never been analyzed before.
Zagmahg lost mine tools. This dig man found. Want back.
In my town in the PNW they were making a park on the river and discovered the earliest known tools in the area - dating to about 10,000 years ago or so. Shortly after the land bridge.
Yeah - the photos showed what anyone else would call a rock - but there were slight tell-tale signs on them. Pretty cool to walk along the river and think about humans fishing, foraging, etc. that long ago.
We were raised as Roman Catholic. I began studying archaeology / anthropology, and am fascinated by how we figured out shhhtuff in the past. The Mayans tracked the planet Venus for over 400 years. The Nazca lines in South America are no aliens, and no mystery. If you stand on the high hills on one end of the Nazca Valley, you can see what looks like a spider, with lines drawn through it. If you bother to spend enough time investigating and observing, you learn that the spider is what we call the constellation Orion. The lines through the spider are for Orion at different times of the year.
Whatever God did and created is not for us to say. He provided, some of us, with the brains to investigate and figure shhhtuff out. Hypothesis, theories, maybe, perhaps. Some things we know for sure. Take....say...gravity. Every where we go, on Earth, gravity generally works the same way. If I ever drop a hammer and it does not fall, I’m running for the hills (if I can).
Back to Archeology / Anthropology. When I first began studying, ‘they’ said humans came across the Bering Straight to Alaska about 10,000 years ago. I immediately knew that was probably wrong, but we just keep investigating and gathering more information.
We will keep being curious, keep investigating until God calls us home. Or maybe, just maybe, his plan is for some of us to reach for the stars, and visit the rest of his creations. Anyone who states they absolutely KNOW God’s plan, well, be careful. I have faith that God has a plan, and someday I just might learn more. After he calls me home, he just might say...”stay tuned” and I will be just fine with that too.
More like 126 billion. Do the math.
Maybe its not a tool at all but a rock that broke and was tossed aside as defective.
“Cheap Chinese junk...”
Let's start with a pretty obviously small population - say 1000 individuals.
Very slow population growth because of high mortality and very limited resources. Population growth of .00034%
By 4,000 BC, the population was maybe 27 million.
There is the math for you.
In reality, growth was anything but constant, with many increases and decreases as glacial ages and plant and animal resources varied, and very, very slowly, technological increases (fire, clothing, weapons) accumulated.
Not simply being sarcastic. Confirmation bias is a real thing.
Why not send us directly to the source article when you want to post an article at freerepublic instead of having us support MSN and end up having to go to the source anyway if we want the complete article with photos and related articles the source has done?
Currently reading “”Forbidden Archeology” by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson, 1993.
Some of the fossil records go back as far as 2-3 million years and maybe as far back as 55 million years and I am only to page 137 of 800 plus pages of well documented discourse.
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