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Shell Art Was Carved By Homo Erectus Up To 540,000 Years Ago
hngn.com ^ | Dec 03, 2014 02:31 PM EST | By Rebekah Marcarelli

Posted on 12/03/2014 12:28:44 PM PST by BenLurkin

The shells are engraved with geometric "zigzag" patterns that predate the weathering process that caused the shells to become fossilized. The study eliminated natural occurrences or animals as the inscribers, suggesting they were created by the ancient hominids. To make their findings the researchers used two dating methods the researchers used two dating methods, which revealed the shells were carved between 430,000 and 540,000 years ago.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; homoerectus
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To: Vaquero
those who want us to live in mud huts

Can you share any instances of who specifically wants us to live in mud huts?

41 posted on 12/03/2014 2:28:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: JimRed

Mmmm.

Not really all that convincing. The shell is supposed to be 500,000 years old, and there is naturally going to be some weathering, but how do we know that the scratches are maybe only 10,000 years old?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nature13962_SF5.html


42 posted on 12/03/2014 2:30:40 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: central_va

I won’t post the gorilla picture, but...
http://www.albumartexchange.us/2009/11/search-for-the-worst-homo-erectus.html


43 posted on 12/03/2014 2:33:25 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MeshugeMikey
who was it who first told Carol to Troll Ancient The Yuletide anyway?

Was it Don?

44 posted on 12/03/2014 2:36:06 PM PST by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: Brandonmark

most likely.. Yes


45 posted on 12/03/2014 2:42:47 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: BenLurkin
South Bay Freepers might remember this guy.
46 posted on 12/03/2014 2:54:10 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: JimSEA

I think you’re right but it’s not just speech. Wouldn’t these markings indicate some capability for abstract thought? Abstraction allied with speech is really what separates us from other animals.


47 posted on 12/03/2014 3:02:30 PM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: BenLurkin

3 interglacial periods ago? Very cool.


48 posted on 12/03/2014 3:04:02 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: etl lll

Like “Lake Titicaca”? (Peru)
= = = = = = = =
Yes,.....that is somewhat of a ‘two-fer’.

However, after I hit send before I remembered one of the ‘common’ words I was trying to think of..

‘titillate’

Kind of like the ‘old days’ when a ‘good’ Catholic lad would think he was cute by saying darn or shoot or ANYTHING that may get an adult to peer around the corner(of their eye) at you.


49 posted on 12/03/2014 3:20:13 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: chajin

Verry good!


50 posted on 12/03/2014 3:37:35 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: JimSEA

This whole gradualism bit can be carried much too far.

Decades ago I read an article about Eskimos and how they moved into the Arctic and over centuries developed their tools and garments needed to survive under such condition.

Even though I was just a kid, I realized that if they didn’t have most of that stuff the first winter, they wouldn’t live through it.


51 posted on 12/03/2014 3:41:32 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/changing/journey/

Photographs from late 18 and early 19 hundreds of Siberian peoples.


52 posted on 12/03/2014 3:54:21 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum...)
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To: BenLurkin

The current regime wants us to be totally beholding to govt. live in our mud huts as he throws us the occasional bone as we toil in the Kings fields


53 posted on 12/03/2014 4:28:01 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Natufian

I sure you’re right. Abstract thinking for sure. Our big brains (including Homo Erectus) required family and “tribe” relationships that were pretty complex. Most kids in most species are ready to go after a year or two. Our brains aren’t formed by then.


54 posted on 12/03/2014 5:27:56 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Sherman Logan

LOL Stupid Eskimos selected against.


55 posted on 12/03/2014 5:30:07 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: tsomer

> I wondered when somebody would get this discussion headed in the right direction.

I had to choose between Jesus in shells or Elvis in shells. I went with Elvis. Sadly, I could find nothing in velvet and shells.


56 posted on 12/04/2014 6:13:21 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: Monkey Face; colorado tanker

I’m sure that someone will find that some Homo Erectus also carved a chevron on cave wall somewhere, and it will be in some previously unsuspected part of the world, *that’s* how mobil that species was.


57 posted on 12/04/2014 1:52:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: JimSEA; SunkenCiv; no-to-illegals; All

I think every time we have one of those Ice Ages which are about 100,000 years apart we have a major decline in whatever civilization has been developed. It then takes tens of thousands of years for civilization to begin to rear its fuzzy head. Also, since Ice Ages suck up a lot of water, any civilization of people living along shorelines pretty much gets covered up when warming sets in again.


58 posted on 12/06/2014 12:32:09 AM PST by gleeaikin
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