Fossil Skull Casts Doubt Over Modern Human Ancestry [Homo heidelbergensis]

Griffith University ^ | April 2, 2020 | Etueni Ngaluafe

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Anschluss.

[SunkenCiv]

She turned all men into Hetero Heidelbergensis.

[papineau]

Heidelberg is in Germany. How did a German get to Zambia 274,000 to 324,000 years ago?

Ve haff vays...

[gleeaikin]

Heidelberg man discovered in Germany is reported to be much older if I remember correctly, 300k to 500k years old.

[PIF]

Heidelberg is in Germany. How did a German get to Zambia 274,000 to 324,000 years ago?

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He went on a safari ...

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[TangoLimaSierra]

Fun read. I was hoping for a Hobbit illustration though ...

This is all I could find;

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Black eyed children?

Nice LARGE eye-sockets there!

[Mark17]

Possibly. 😁

[minnesota_bound]

I am thinking it was an alien that killed the humanoid

[SunkenCiv]

Is it even possible? Yes, it is.

[DEPcom]

“Is it even possible? Yes, it is.”

Really, Where was that photo taken.

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like an airport, I found it on Giorgio’s feed somewhere. :^)

[gnarledmaw]

To my understanding, it was swallows.