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Humans Created Earliest Modern Artifacts in Europe, Research Shows
Science News ^ | May 12, 2020 | News Staff / Source

Posted on 05/17/2020 1:15:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

In 2015, a research team led by archaeologists from the National Archaeological Institute of Bulgaria and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology resumed work at Bacho Kiro Cave with the goals of clarifying the chronology and the biological nature of the makers of the artifacts.

The researchers uncovered thousands of animal bones, stone and bone tools, beads and pendants and the remains of five human individuals...

Using a state-of-the-art technology called Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS), they identified human bone fragments and concluded that they were at least 45,000 years old -- a period coinciding with the arrival of multiple waves of Homo sapiens into Europe.

Subsequent shape analyses of the tooth and DNA examination of the fragments determined that they belonged to Homo sapiens and not Neanderthals, whose presence was not evident among the discovered fossils.

...said team member Professor Shara Bailey, a researcher in the Department of Anthropology at New York University and the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology... "Interestingly, when relating these mtDNAs to those of other ancient and modern humans, the mtDNA sequences from Layer I fall close to the base of three main macrohaplogroups of present-day people living outside of Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, their genetic dates align almost perfectly with those obtained by radiocarbon."

(Excerpt) Read more at sci-news.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; bulgaria; dietandcuisine; emptydna; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: (1-3, 5-7) pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; (4) sandstone bead with morphology similar to bone beads; (8) the longest complete blade. Image credit: Tsenka Tsanova / CC-BY-SA

Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: (1-3, 5-7) pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; (4) sandstone bead with morphology similar to bone beads; (8) the longest complete blade. Image credit: Tsenka Tsanova / CC-BY-SA

1 posted on 05/17/2020 1:15:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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KEYWORDS: neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

in local libraries
"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

2 posted on 05/17/2020 1:16:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Humans Created Earliest Modern Artifacts in Europe, Research Shows”

So what else on earth besides aliens could have created them?


3 posted on 05/17/2020 1:20:01 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

4 posted on 05/17/2020 1:21:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: antidemoncrat
The headline is rooted in morphological bigotry.

5 posted on 05/17/2020 1:21:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

How specieist of them!


6 posted on 05/17/2020 1:24:48 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: antidemoncrat

So what else on earth besides aliens could have created them?
= = =

Democrats


7 posted on 05/17/2020 1:25:05 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: SunkenCiv
But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

Science is racist. Fossils are racist. I find it hard to believe that all of humanity is descended from just one area of this vast earth.

8 posted on 05/17/2020 1:29:43 PM PDT by SantosLHalper (Eat some bacon.No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.")
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To: Grimmy; SantosLHalper
Isn't it odd that morphology of living people can't be used to determine race, but for extinct people...

9 posted on 05/17/2020 1:56:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

democrats don’t create anything. They with mooch off others or destroy what has been built.


10 posted on 05/17/2020 2:12:17 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: SantosLHalper
"I find it hard to believe that all of humanity is descended from just one area of this vast earth."

Then don't.

I don't and many others don't either.

I suggest you consider Multiregional Origin Of Modern Humans.

11 posted on 05/17/2020 2:27:11 PM PDT by blam
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To: Scrambler Bob

Monkeys probably created them and Democrats took credit for it.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 2:34:52 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those look really like Szeletian points. maybe some of them are discarded cores. We so not know what hominid the Szeletians were, but this article implies they were homo sapiens of some variety - Aurignacians is the blanket name. However, similar stone points found elsewhere are attributed to Neanderthals. Perhaps it was a common technique shared by both hominids at the time.


13 posted on 05/17/2020 2:55:10 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Thanks PIF.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Szeletian+points


14 posted on 05/17/2020 6:08:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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and, from Aug 27, 2013:

Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14186
Edited by Erik Trinkaus, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, and approved May 22, ... Here we report four lissoir fragments...


15 posted on 05/19/2020 9:39:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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