Dr. Peter Venkman: "You're right, no human being would stack books like this."
Posted on 07/11/2018 5:31:47 PM PDT by simpson96
Modern humans' distant relatives left Africa earlier than previously thought—rewriting a key chapter in humankind's epic prequel, according to a discovery unveiled on Wednesday in Nature.
Nearly a hundred stone tools found at the Shangchen site in central China may push back the spread of our ancient cousins—hominins—out of Africa by more than a quarter million years.
The toolmakers lived at Shangchen on and off for 800,000 years between 2.1 and 1.3 million years ago, leaving behind tools that are unprecedented outside of Africa. The site's oldest tools are roughly 300,000 years older than Dmanisi, a 1.8-million-year-old site in the Republic of Georgia with the oldest known fossils of our extinct cousin Homo erectus.
“Finding artifacts that you knew were around two million years old—and therefore the oldest outside Africa—was for me, as a palaeoanthropologist, really exciting,” says study coauthor Robin Dennell, a professor at the University of Exeter.
“More people have climbed Everest than found stone tools that old.”
“I’ve always said that once the Chinese researchers start looking for evidence on a similar scale as all the money spent in Africa, things will turn up!” exclaims Gerrit van den Bergh, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wollongong who wasn't involved with the study.
“It again shows how little we actually know.”
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More precisely, it's a politically correct form of modern mythology.
I think of this every time I read of some new discovery.
Dr. Peter Venkman: "You're right, no human being would stack books like this."
Maybe Man is older than we think. And maybe, there have been lots of iterations over the millennia.
This has happened before. It will happen again.
200 years after a catastrophic virus, man would be making tools from stones again.
My S I L is in Africa right now.
He cannot wait to get out. His hand tools leave brass casings.
GGG Ping...
that's not completely true. It seems that even sub-saharans have some Neanderthal genes -- much fewer than East Asians (who have the most) and west Eurasians. It seems that some members of the family went back to Africa after fooling around with the Neanderthals
I hope he slots a bunch of floppies....
Its kind of weird. I will get a text message in the middle of the night telling the locals are tossing mortar rounds at them...but they keep missing and hitting their own people.
He facetimes with my daughter all of the time.
My MIL remembers sending her husband off to WWII in 1942 and not seeing him for 3 years. And only hearing his voice as he was about to get on a ship to go to Africa.
Its a new way to go “to War.”
Where exactly do you draw the line on what is “human” and what is not?
It’s a question that has long plagued me.
Acts 17:26.
Thx.
Look at those faces and figure it out.
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