Posted on 04/25/2021 8:08:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
About 800,000 years ago in what is now Spain, cannibals devoured an early human child who became known as "The Boy of Gran Dolina." But new analysis of these ancient remains has revealed a surprising twist: the child was a girl.
The child was a Homo antecessor, an early hominin species that lived in Europe between 1.2 million and 800,000 years ago. Discovered in 1994 in the Gran Dolina cave in northern Spain's Atapuerca Mountains, the species is known primarily from fragments of bones and teeth, which hampered researchers' efforts to determine the sex of H. antecessor individuals.
Recently, scientists... examined teeth from two Gran Dolina individuals: "H1" and "H3". H1, whose remains defined the H. antecessor species, was about 13 years old at the time of death and was long presumed to be male. The second individual, H3 — The Boy of Gran Dolina — died at the age of 11 years old and was also thought to be male...
The girl would have been between 9 and 11 years old when she was killed and eaten, according to the study. And she wasn't the only victim; the remains from 22 H. antecessor individuals in Gran Dolina displayed signs of being cannibalized, with bones showing cuts, fractures where they had been cracked open to expose the marrow, and even tooth marks, Live Science previously reported.
One possible explanation for this ancient cannibalism is that humans were easier to catch and more nutritious than other animals, researchers wrote in 2019 in the Journal of Human Evolution. Compared with other types of prey, "a lot of food could be obtained from humans at low cost," CENIEH researcher Jesús Rodríguez, lead author of the 2019 study, said...
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
It was the invention of one guy, apparently, and when the only tool is a hammer, all problems start to look like a nail, 'r somethin'.
Human teeth marks and broken bones to suck out marrow? That’s human predator...
At what height does a hill become a mountain?
Would the elevation you select as the firm by-definition dividing line be different if you were from, say, relatively low relief Britain “The Appalachians are HUGE!”, or from Nepal?
Yep. Here you go:
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-coronavirus-infected-people-thousands-years-ago.html
It’s telling that they didn’t find any masks in the cave.
At my age, it begins about halfway up.
I prefer to remind people that the ancient Greeks regarded the sphere as the perfect shape.
I’m in GREAT shape!
The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion ranges from 11,750 to 10,350 BC
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003358947790031X
The real last great event occurred in 10,800 BC - a 100 year period on continual comet fragment strikes centered on the North American Ice sheet, wiped out all the Mega Fauna, turned North Africa into an arid region, and caused the Younger Dryas Age - the coldest time in the Quaternary Period.
So, if that theory is right, keep your eyes on the night sky this fall when the Earth enters the same comet debris field (the Taurids) ...
The Lake Mungo event was about 12,000 years before Gothenburg, and the Mono Lake event was about 12,000 years before that.
Do you happen to know if the Taurids are on a 12,000 orbit?
I hate my sisters guts!
Shut up son, and eat what mom set before you!
What is that a picture of?
And the fava beans.😗
The Neanderthal, as proposed by the author of the article on the link.
Do you happen to know if the Taurids are on a 12,000 orbit?
We pass thru them every year, but which part? There is supposed to be a widely scattered area of small debris and a dense part from the original 100 mile diameter comet.
We pass through the scattered area and it makes a nice light show in the sky on clear nights. But the dense part with rocks 1 or more miles in diameter is speculation; all of it might have been sucked up in 10800.
But no one knows what the dense part orbital timing is, even if it still exists. Or the comet Eneke may have been even larger than proposed. There is only a small part remaining 4.8 miles diameter, comes around every 3.2 - 3.3 years, may have been responsible for the Tunguska event of 1908, calcium spikes indicate debris field but a 2019 effort to find some found none (black body perhaps). Next perihelion is 2022, next closest Earth approach is 2046
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke#Meteor_showers
Comet Enke and its debris is on a 3.3 year orbit.
The longest orbit numbered comet I could find is 365.5 years
That’s not a Neanderthal if he can’t get that right then I doubt anything else he says is accurate.🤔
LOL!
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