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Posted on 08/06/2025 1:03:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...archaeological evidence at one site called Madjedbebe in the far north of Australia's Northern Territory suggests the area may have been occupied much earlier -- at least 65,000 years ago.
Archaeologists recovered human-made artifacts, including stone tools and ocher "crayons," from the Madjedbebe rock shelter and published their findings in a 2017 study. One difficulty in dating the artifacts, however, was the copious amount of sand on the floor of the rock shelter, which can move easily and cause artifacts to fall farther down, making them look older than they are.
Although the research team took steps to counteract this issue and landed on a 65,000-year-old date, Madjedbebe's occupation timing is still uncertain because it is by far the oldest archaeological site in Australia, making it an outlier.
"It doesn't necessarily mean that the data is wrong," O'Connell said, "but it does mean that if the data is right, the people responsible for Madjedbebe are not ancestral to any significant degree to modern Sahul populations."
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A map of what Australia and Pacific Islands may have looked like during the last ice age.Image credit: Alamy
IOW, Neandertal was already in Australia before 50K ago; orrrr, our Neandertal ancestors and our other ancestors mated more than once and/or well before 50K years ago; orrrr, the idea that humans settled Australia and then no one else arrived for 64,500 years is a ninny idea.
Neanderthals appear to be a closer genetic link to BigFoot than Humans (i.e. Adam & Eve)
You know what that means...
More GRANT MONEY.
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“Humans did not arrive in Australia 65,000 years ago, and likely didn’t reach the land down under until around 50,000 years ago, a controversial new paper reports.
“The reasoning behind the finding is that modern humans didn’t mate with Neanderthals until around 50,000 years ago, but Indigenous Australians have a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. So, the first Australians could not have arrived until after humans mated with Neanderthals.
“But we can’t yet rule out archaeological evidence that places humans on the continent much earlier than genetic models do, other experts say.”
Today’s conventional wisdom is tomorrow’s old wives tales.
Personally I think that someday they will find that they made it to the Americas. Just haven’t looked enough.
The Bering straight was open many times, not just ~ 20K years ago.
Corresponds to the "Eve Theory of Consciousness" - some humans developed the ability for recursive thinking and therefore had an evolutionary advantage.
The collapse of Neanderthal populations followed not long after. Neanderthal DNA in humans in of mitochondrial origin, which points to the question whether humans and Neanderthal were the same species. Only male mules are sterile. Were male human Neanderthal hybrids sterile? Did the Neanderthal population collapse for this reason?
I was looking at this study to elucidate this a bit and was disappointed. Their sample is to small to support the inferences they are making - a turf battle in an academic niche focused on minutae.
“Neanderthals appear to be a closer genetic link to BigFoot than Humans (i.e. Adam & Eve)”
Yes, Neanderthals and modern humans did interbreed. Analysis of ancient human DNA has shown that most people outside of Africa carry between 1% and 2% Neanderthal DNA. This indicates that when modern humans migrated out of Africa and encountered Neanderthals in Eurasia, they interbred, resulting in offspring carrying genes from both groups.
https://www.google.com/search?q=neanderthal+mated+with+humans
They had 65,000 years to build cities and a civilization but instead it took British convicts to build in a few years. What were the natives doing all these years?
Blowing didgeridoos and then sucking on them once stuffed with burning psychotropic substances.
65,000 year old date? Talk about a cougar.
Goes back to the Bible. God did not say “let us create a creature and call it man”, He said “let us create man in our image”. Sounds like “man” was already a known commodity and the difference being that man as we know him is created in the image of God. A triune being made up of body, soul, and spirit.
So what went on here on this earth between Genesis 1 and 2, only God really knows, but “scientists” dig up parts of it and mistakenly think it has something to do with us. Like the Bible also states, “thinking themselves wise, they became fools”.
Thanks for your post.
The point I was making humans (i.e. Adam & Eve) did NOT evolve from Neanderthals’ or apes.
Since there is no Bigfoot DNA, obviously you’re lying.
Yeah, dating one would tend to give one paws.
They painted stuff on cliff faces, but not 65K worth.
Huffing petrol.
How do you know? Do you have a Bigfoot DNA sample?
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