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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Can you share any instances of who specifically wants us to live in mud huts?
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
I won’t post the gorilla picture, but...
http://www.albumartexchange.us/2009/11/search-for-the-worst-homo-erectus.html
Was it Don?
most likely.. Yes
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.
3 interglacial periods ago? Very cool.
Like “Lake Titicaca”? (Peru)
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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.
Verry good!
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.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/changing/journey/
Photographs from late 18 and early 19 hundreds of Siberian peoples.
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
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.
LOL Stupid Eskimos selected against.
> 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.
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.
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.
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