Posted on 08/09/2017 11:04:13 AM PDT by blam
Most people don't spend their free time imagining what it would be like to get on the subway and sit across from a 300,000-year-old person. But anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin isn't most people.
In June, Hublin published two papers in the highly-respected journal Nature suggesting that the first Homo sapiens that is, the first members of our species lived 100,000 years earlier than previously thought in a place that no one would have expected. They also had faces that looked surprisingly like ours.
Im not sure these people would stand out from a crowd today," said Hublin on a call with reporters shortly before his research was published.
Hublin's findings, while controversial, were generally greeted by other researchers in the community with excitement about the other kinds of research opportunities that could be opened up by this new idea.
"It really sets the world alight in terms of the possibilities for understanding the evolution of Homo sapiens," Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, told Business Insider in June. "It certainly means that we need to rethink our models."
Hublin is one of several anthropologists and archaeologists who are combing the planet for evidence that could rewrite various aspects of ancient human history. Together, they are answering burning questions about our origin story, from when and where the first Homo sapiens emerged to how the first people braved the icy passage between what is today Siberia and North America and when they did it.
"It definitely challenges what most people learned in high school," Mikkel Winther Pedersen, a geogeneticist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark
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Yep and the controversy continues. They shutdown Calico because it was getting so deep it was dangerous. the trenches were 30 feet deep in some places yet they were STILL finding lithics.
I was personally able to be involved with that dig and handled quite a few of those at the time. In fact I am very good friends with the one who was put on the job of discrediting all those and shutting it down.
“Why?”... “Because I need to keep my Gov job”.
I can PM you the link to a photo project of those lithics if you like. If I share it in public it will get shut down ASAP.
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interesting stuff.
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