The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Natural History Museum London.
Posted on 04/08/2020 7:41:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery.
The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of the early human species Homo heidelbergensis and was estimated to be about 500,000 years old...
Discovered in 1921 by miners in Zambia, the Broken Hill remains have been difficult to date due to their haphazard recovery and the site being completely destroyed by quarrying.
Using radiometric dating methods, Professor Grün’s analyses now puts the skull at a relatively young date, estimating it is between 274,000 and 324,000 years old.
Publishing their findings and methodology in Nature, Professor Grün said “the new best age estimate of the fossil impacts our understanding of the tempo and mode of modern human origins.”
“The Broken Hill human fossils are now within the time range of the early Middle Stone Age, challenging assumptions that only Homo sapiens made these stone tools in Africa.”
The research also suggests that human evolution in Africa around 300,000 years ago was a much more complex process, with the co-existence of different human lineages.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.griffith.edu.au ...
The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Natural History Museum London.
Three human-like species lived side-by-side in ancient Africa
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
2 April 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52133534
Oh no!
OOPART!
Someone shot that caveman dude right over his left earhole with a gun.
Doesn’t surprise me at all that it is younger than formally believed. After all, very primitive Homo floresiensis, “Flores Man,” i.e.: Hobbits were around when Cro-Magnon man walked the Earth.
[snip] In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Caucasus. The Mesolithic has different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. It refers to the final period of hunter-gatherer cultures in Europe and Western Asia, between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic Revolution. In Europe it spans roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BP; in Southwest Asia (the Epipalaeolithic Near East) roughly 20,000 to 8,000 BP. The term is less used of areas further east, and not at all beyond Eurasia and North Africa. [/snip]
So, no, not Mesolithic, Middle Paleolithic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolithic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Paleolithic
Ron Brown?
More evidence that the paleo diet makes you look a lot older than you really are.
Ron Brown?
*****
Never know.
And I mean, Never. Know.
(Hillary is still out there, somewhere)
I think I saw this skull on an episode of CSI-Paleo.
Looks like a 9mm got him.
Fun read. I was hoping for a Hobbit illustration though ...
Heidelberg is in Germany. How did a German get to Zambia 274,000 to 324,000 years ago?
The skull used to be called Rhodesian Man, because Zambia’s name before independence was Northern Rhodesia. However, later on the anthropologists decided that Rhodesian Man was just an African version of another fossil that had already been discovered, Heidelberg Man.
:^D
Thanks B, have it open in another tab to read tomorrow.
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