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Fossil Skull Casts Doubt Over Modern Human Ancestry [Homo heidelbergensis]
Griffith University ^ | April 2, 2020 | Etueni Ngaluafe

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 ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: brokenhill; godsgravesglyphs; homoheidelbergensis; middlepaleolithic; paleolithic; piltdownman; qanon; zambia
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The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Natural History Museum London.

Natural History Museum London

1 posted on 04/08/2020 7:41:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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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


2 posted on 04/08/2020 7:42:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh no!

OOPART!

Someone shot that caveman dude right over his left earhole with a gun.


3 posted on 04/08/2020 7:44:06 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: MHGinTN; Roman_War_Criminal
Does this picture look like anything we have ever seen before? 😁
4 posted on 04/08/2020 7:45:47 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Flew the DA-20 and T-6. One more aircraft to go.)
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To: Grimmy

I wrote about that skull here:

http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/genesis/gen05.html#Rhodesian


5 posted on 04/08/2020 7:56:48 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


6 posted on 04/08/2020 7:58:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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[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


7 posted on 04/08/2020 8:02:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Grimmy

Ron Brown?


8 posted on 04/08/2020 8:03:13 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: SunkenCiv

More evidence that the paleo diet makes you look a lot older than you really are.


9 posted on 04/08/2020 8:03:54 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: SunkenCiv

10 posted on 04/08/2020 8:08:03 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Palio di Siena

Ron Brown?

*****

Never know.

And I mean, Never. Know.

(Hillary is still out there, somewhere)


11 posted on 04/08/2020 8:08:07 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

I think I saw this skull on an episode of CSI-Paleo.


12 posted on 04/08/2020 8:28:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Grimmy

Looks like a 9mm got him.


13 posted on 04/08/2020 8:29:44 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SunkenCiv

14 posted on 04/08/2020 8:37:30 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Berosus

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


15 posted on 04/08/2020 8:40:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


16 posted on 04/08/2020 8:46:59 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

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.


17 posted on 04/08/2020 9:28:38 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: edwinland
:^D

18 posted on 04/08/2020 9:48:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Berosus
Thanks B, have it open in another tab to read tomorrow.

19 posted on 04/08/2020 9:49:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

20 posted on 04/08/2020 9:50:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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