The Narmada Basin Palaeoanthropology Project in central India
Posted on 08/16/2012 6:41:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Through the largest exploration exercise ever undertaken, M S University's Department of Archaeology and Ancient History along with United States' Stone Age Institute will unearth evidence of our own ancestors.
MSU and Indiana-based Stone Age Institute at Gosport have joined hands for the 'Narmada Basin Paleoanthropology Project (NBPA)' with the target to collect all the paleoanthropological evidence within the last two million years.
"This project may throw new light giving credence to the belief that the Narmada Valley could have been the centre of human evolution," says professor K Krishnan, head of MSU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
The project for the period of five years has its roots in the discovery of a vertebrate fossil record including the only pre-modern human fossil known in South Asia from -- the Narmada Basin.
In 1980s, former director of Geological Survey of India (paleontologist) Arun Sonakia had created a sensation surprising the world with his discovery of the "only human fossil in Asia" from near Hoshangabad in Central Narmada Valley Basin in Madhya Pradesh which he said was that of a homo erectus (predecessors of today's human). In recent times, however, archaeologists have argued that although the discovery has been variably attributed to different species of homo, its age remains uncertain...
"Study at Narmada Basin is important because of its geographical location which is very strategic for migration of animal population from North to South and East to West. It is not only rich in fossils and archaeological sites, but it has a long history of human occupation and this region is facing submergence due to dam construction," says Chauhan.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
Now back to the science part...
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Interesting!
>>LOL never reveal what ads show up on your browser because most websites and bowsers tailor the ads that appear on the pages you open,<<
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and from FR:The Scars of Evolution:"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan
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Thank you for posting this.
Did they find an old post with a sign that read “Eden” on it?
No, but someone found the “Eden” sign, which had been painted over the “Narmada Valley” sign.
My pleasure.
This hypothesis is interesting. The earliest known traces of civilisation are in sumeria-elam. There are hindu stories of a great continent to the south of India where probably the Elamite-Sumerian-Dravidian people originated in.
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