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Posted on 12/17/2003 4:00:53 PM PST by blam
Early man's carvings found in Germany
Small figurines believed to be carved from mammoth ivory more than 30,000 years ago have been discovered in a cave in southern Germany.
Among the earliest undisputed artworks ever found, they are providing new clues into the migration and religious beliefs of early humans.
The figurines depict a water bird, what appears to be a horse's head and a lion-man.
The one-inch lion-man is similar to a near one-foot-long figurine previously found in a nearby valley, which had been cited as evidence of shamanism - the belief that spirits can be influenced by priests known as shamans.
Birds, especially water birds, are known to be favourite shamanistic symbols, which means "advocates of the shamanistic hypothesis are going to be very happy about these finds," said study author Nicholas Conard.
The two-inch bird is extremely lifelike, with a well-formed head and eyes and the neck stretching out as if in flight. Conard said the figurine appears to be the oldest known representation of a bird, although an owl depicted in a French cave may be as old.
While early man is often seen as brutish, the findings add to evidence that "the first modern humans in Europe were in fact astonishingly precocious artists," University of Liverpool archaeologist Anthony Sinclair wrote in a commentary accompanying the paper. Both appear in the journal Nature.
The researchers believe the figurines, found in the Hohle Fels cave in the Ach Valley, were created by early anatomically modern humans and not their Neanderthal predecessors.(BS, there's no way they can know this.)
Radiocarbon dating used to date the carvings is inexact, but the objects were almost certainly made between 28,000 and 35,000 years ago, and probably between 32,000 to 34,000 years ago, Sinclair said.
© Associated Press
Story filed: 18:01 Wednesday 17th December 2003
Early euroweenies.
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LOL, gosh I love seeing someone that actually uses his brain, rather than just numbly reading what's in front of him and nodding his head! "Researchers believe..." is not science. Good catch.
--Boot Hill
This is just another version of the old Evol-Doer line: "Sudden appearance and fully formed"
Interesting fact for the day! Evolution is the most dominant religion on the planet, with over 3 billion followers, and clerics in white lab coats.
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FGS
Come on, evolution has nothing to do with religion. If God showed up on the evening news and announced he'd created the world through A) immediate creation OR B) evolution OR C) some combination, you would still wake up the next morning confronted with the same questions of morality and salvation of the soul.
re·li·gion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-ljn) n.
1. a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creat[ing]or and govern[ing]or of the universe
1. b. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
No one has ever observed anything evolve, period. It is a belief system with no scientific proof. At best, the accolytes of Evolution use inferences based on supposed evidences and call them proof. But these proofs only prove their prejudices, not of cold scientific observation.
Based on what, animal instinct? I think not. In the beginning, there was God who created it all; some of which may or may not have evolved. Takes faith in something in any case; there's no proof I'm aware of. The evos want to replace God with muck and lightning; THAT's the problem.
FGS
Evolution might be number two; football is number one.
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