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A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France ( inhabited 176,000 years ago )
The Atlantic ^
| May 25, 2016
| Ed Yong
Posted on 09/29/2020 3:54:54 PM PDT by Candor7
..............After drilling into the stalagmites and pulling out cylinders of rock, the team could see an obvious transition between two layers. On one side were old minerals that were part of the original stalagmites; on the other were newer layers that had been laid down after the fragments were broken off by the cave’s former users. By measuring uranium levels on either side of the divide, the team could accurately tell when each stalagmite had been snapped off for construction.
Their date? 176,500 years ago, give or take a few millennia.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
TOPICS: Education; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: cave; dating; dumbert41; dumgi; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; stalactites; stalagmite; stalagmites
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To: TigersEye
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:29:12 PM PDT
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Fungi
To: Candor7
So easy a cave man can do it.
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:36:19 PM PDT
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: bandit123
Im not saying it was Alien’s - But it was ALIENS!!!! For shame, you didn't try for the picture? How much did that guy make on that 'do'?
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09/29/2020 4:38:46 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(2020, VOTE your principles, VOTE your history, VOTE FOR ALL AMERICANS, VOTE colorblind!)
To: Candor7
The first documented circle jerk?
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:39:05 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: Candor7
For reference...
Per wiki...
The Cave of Altamira (Spanish: Cueva de Altamira) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.
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09/29/2020 4:53:26 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Fungi
I was trying to be kind about it.
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:54:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(In all things ... trigger discipline.)
To: Rurudyne
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:56:40 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma)
To: Candor7
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:57:00 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Fungi
French wine-aging control is very strict!!!
To: frank ballenger
Coors was all they had, it was before beer was discovered.
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:58:07 PM PDT
by
Cold Heart
(Portland Voted for IT)
To: Candor7
They found nuclear power and died from radiation poisoning!
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posted on
09/29/2020 4:58:45 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: moovova
#25. The Cave of Altamira - the site of Picasso’s earliest cubist and abstract art. Worth a fortune!
To: Candor7
and on the wall a framed copy of Obama’s real BC...
To: frank ballenger; Candor7
“They found my old camp site!”
“The pile of 48 empty Coors cans led the researchers straight to you and your buddies.”
My first trip to Israel was in 1990 (I landed on the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait - lots of flyovers and sonic booms), and on one particular day I left the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. Not 25 feet from the gate was a pit about 8’ x 8’ and maybe 15-20 feet deep, surrounded by a very flimsy fence of mesh. So, of course, I had to peak down there. Coke cans - ancient Coke cans used by my ancestors some 2,000 - 3,000 years ago. Amazing what you find underground, isn’t it!
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09/29/2020 5:10:35 PM PDT
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Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: Deaf Smith
stalagtights
It sounds like something prisoners of war would wear instead of lederhosen.
To: posterchild
Hit your head too many times on stalacties, you will break them off.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:20:45 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
To: Ancesthntr
Good story.
Fellow Israel Supporter,
F B
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:20:49 PM PDT
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frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: MRadtke
Some things don’t change.
To: SES1066
I tried like 6 times on preview to make the pic of big hair pop up and failed, even reviewed how to do it with the img src stuff.
Copied and pasted then inserted my url but to no avail.
back to the html sand box for me. It appears that I am not smarter than a fifth grader.
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09/29/2020 5:35:09 PM PDT
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bandit123
(This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through)
To: Dogbert41
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:38:00 PM PDT
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Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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