Posted on 12/25/2015 9:13:40 PM PST by Fractal Trader
It’s been an exciting year for human evolution with several discoveries dramatically rewriting major episodes of our ancient past.
Some of this progress stems from major advances in fields like ancient genomics, while much has resulted from new fossil and archaeological discoveries made in Africa and China.
What’s interested me the most has been the discovery of archaic humans living in northern China until perhaps 70,000 years ago and the oldest anatomically modern humans in the region appearing at least 80,000 years ago.
This is because they fall squarely within my own area of research: human evolution over the past few hundred thousand years in East Asia and Australasia.
In 2012, we announced the discovery of the ‘Red Deer Cave people’ in Southwest China, a mysterious human group we identified from cranial and jaw bones and teeth from two cave sites located in Southwest China.
Today, a team I co-lead with Professor Ji Xueping of the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and involving colleagues from a range of institutions in China and Australia, announced the discovery of yet another highly unusual bone from the Red Deer Cave people. And it seems to confirm they were a mysterious group of pre-modern humans.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...
Hope this isn’t old news....
It’s *old*, alright...14K old. ;)
How can you take an artifact and determine its age without knowing any of the environmental circumstances?
Even if they averaged only 100-110 pounds, that femur doesn’t look nearly as sturdy as a modern bone.
I remember when it was FINALLY hashed out that American Indians were neither Indians from India, nor were they "native" to this continent.
American Indians are descendants of Siberian hunter groups who MIGRATED here like everyone else. That was ignored by the mainstream media because it made the American Indian less sympathetic to the world.
They then claimed to be the FIRST Americans. That turned out to be untrue as well.
The first people on this continent hunted the mastedon elephant. They dug deep pits to trap them then drove the creatures into the pits.
There the men slaughtered the beast. A few men WERE killed in the process.
It was noted that the skulls of these mastedon hunters were OBLONG. Oriental Asians (as opposed to Indians from India) have ROUND heads. Since there were no round skulls found, anthropologists knew that Caucasian types hunted the giant mastedon...and therefore the WHITE MEN or Euromen were the FIRST humans on this continent.
The media will ignore THAT data, for sure. It's what they do: ignore what suits them. And, having European humans here first was/is/always will be just too much for the Left and all those who worship ANYone who is NOT a white European male.
Neanderthalus. How did they get in the door?
So are anthropologist speculating on how these Caucasians traveled to North America to hunt mastodons? Prehistoric safari deals?
The same way you find one bone and think you’ve discovered an entirely new human species.
Is that Piltdown Man on the right?
http://easttexasindianartifacts.blogspot.com/2015/12/mysterious-14000-year-old-leg-bone-may.html
That is one sorry looking femur.
Has anyone seen John Kerry’s Scuba Diving Toupee?
It was right on this nightstand a minute ago!
It’s English...you can tell by the teeth!
Just kidding folks, don’t hit me.
Daryll Hannah was in Clan Of The Cave Bear (1986). She got a lot of exposure and a lot of criticism for that film. Roger Ebert didn’t care for it, although, like a good critic, he studied the film very closely.
How likely is it that you’d find a statuesque blond girl ‘taking control’ of her surroundings while alone in a jungle and living another day to tell about it?
Low, but unusual circumstances make good stories.
Neatly trimmed hair and beard. When will they find the barber shop?
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