Posted on 06/18/2011 2:21:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Last year, while a Penn team of archaeologists was working in Morocco, members uncovered a treasure beyond anything they'd imagined - a skeleton of a child from 108,000 years ago. They don't know what killed him at about age 8, but his remains are believed to be one of the most complete ever found of this period... One of the earliest sites where people left evidence of artwork and symbolism is in Morocco, where a team led by Penn Museum's Harold Dibble found the child... that died 108,000 years ago, as shown by various dating techniques... From analyzing the teeth, Dibble's team estimated he or she was 6 to 8 years old... a boy... The young age of the child is also of scientific interest, he said. "As far as I know, this is the first juvenile from that crucial time period." ...Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin... "Maybe instead of a little garden of Eden in South Africa as the source population for extant humans, the situation in Africa 100,000 years ago was more complicated, with many other groups showing evolution toward what we call behavioral and anatomical modernity," ...One thing that impresses Hublin is that the shell beads from Morocco and southern Africa are made from similar species. "It's amazing to think that at the distance of several thousand kilometers, humans had been developing behaviors that are so similar."
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These body snatchers make me sick. I don’t care what the kid died of. Let him rest in peace....
I’m pretty sure he’s not there
One thing that impresses Hublin is that the shell beads from Morocco and southern Africa are made from similar species. “It’s amazing to think that at the distance of several thousand kilometers, humans had been developing behaviors that are so similar.”
Or maybe there was intracontinental trade.
Only if we get a complaint from the kid's parents.
If nothing else....”He’s dead Jim”.
Let him rest in peace.
A Pennsylvania archeologist named Dibble
Has theories with which you could quibble
But a sex columnist named Flam
Never believed them a scam
Whatever Dibble would dribble she’d scribble.
Soooooooo
uhhh . . .
which part of the bones did the
anxiety/distress/unpeace
register in . . . particularly without a functioning brain?
That was pretty impressive, particularly on short notice.
GROAANNN or rimshot ... I can’t decide
/bingo
If an archaeologist of a future species finds me in the rock I say dig me up, scrape my bones for DNA, measure my cranium capacity, and put my ring on display in a museum. This is as close to immortality as a person can achieve.
My first efforts were more salacious after checking out the glam Ms. Flam, the sex columnist, but this being a conservative website and all...
"Leave Hef alone!"
Penn team uncovers living skeleton of ‘world’s oldest child’ in White House
Might I suggest the cremation diamond route. You are cremated, the ashes are compressed to form a diamond... Choose your color. My preference is to be set into a belly dancers jewelry. Then women will wear you in their belly buttons for the ages.
LOL, I have heard of that. With my luck I would be pawned by a great-grandson and some guy would fashion me into a nose ring.
Well, I’ve checked out some pix... this reminds me of Joni Mitchell’s “The Same Situation”.
:’D
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