Posted on 09/26/2011 7:51:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The exceptional discovery of burials about 9,000 years old - probably containing the oldest human remains ever found in Corsica (France) - will allow a better understanding of the history of early settlement of the island and of the Mediterranean.
On a hill near the village of Sollacaro, Southern Corsica, nestled under a huge ball-shaped block of eroded granite which served as a shelter for prehistoric peoples, the location has been excavated by a team of archaeologists from several French universities, assisted by a Danish colleague...
Having uncovered the bones of four or five adults, a teenager, and a baby spread over an area of a few square meters on the site of Campo Stefano during the past several months, efforts in recent weeks have revealed the almost complete skeleton of another adult...
Evidence of human life in Corsica during the Mesolithic had already been uncovered, including the discovery in 1973 of the 'Lady of Bonifacio'. The entire skeleton of this woman is now exhibited at the Museum Levie (Southern Corsica). The date of her burial is estimated at 6500 BCE. Another individual burial was discovered in the Cap Corse.
The first bones removed at Campo Stefano - well preserved despite the high acidity of granitic soils - can be carbon-dated to a period from 7400-6800 BCE. The remains will be the subject of extensive studies in various laboratories, including the University of Bordeaux - and may eventually be displayed at the Museum of Prehistoric Sartene, in Southern Corsica.
(Excerpt) Read more at stonepages.com ...
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I whiled away a lot of time playing Caesar II years ago. This comes to mind because "Corsica and Sardinia" was one of the provinces one could govern, and the software would tell ya. |
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Tastes like chicken.
Oh no, not another 9,000 year old mob hit.
“But I don’t like baby brother.”
“Shut up and eat what’s put before you.”
;’)
So, using some deduction, on the last thread, something 2 million years old couldn’t have been over 10K years old, so this makes this find only a few hours old?
lol
“Shut up and eat that soup before it clots”
You're asking Civ? WTH???? ASK THE EXPERT. :-))
So these archaeologists are tearing Napoleon’s bones apart?
Bodies are probably still warm.
Better get Duckie to get a liver temp!
This is what happens under ObummerCare.
Corsica was Roman and later was ruled by various Italian governments before the French glommed onto it. It is an interesting “what if” if Corsica had been Italian or independent at the time of the French Revolution. No Napoleon?
If the Big Mo had been smothered in the cradle, there would have been no Obama, and no 9/11, among many other consequences.
:’D
Incorrigible doesn’t do you justice. ;’) :’D
Ah, I love the smell of blood soup... ;’)
"That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there! "
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