Ethiopia Archaeologists Make Important Fossil Find

Reuters - UK ^ | 3-5-2005

[blam]

Ethiopia Archaeologists Make Important Fossil Find

Sat Mar 5, 2005 12:03 PM GMT

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Archaeologists studying human origins in eastern Ethiopia have discovered 12 fossils that appear to be older than the famous fossil "Lucy," the team leader said on Saturday. "The discovery of 12 early hominid fossÿil specimens estimated to be between 3.8 to 4 million years old will be important in terms of understanding the early phases of human evolution before Lucy," Ethiopian archeologist Yohannes Haile Selassie told a news conference.

"It is hoped that the new discoveries will allow scientists to connect the dots, furthering our knowledge of the time period in human evolution," he added.

Lucy is Ethiopia's world-acclaimed archaeological find. The discovery of the almost complete hominid skeleton, estimated to be at least 3.2 million years old, in 1974 was a landmark in the search for the origins of humanity.

Yohannes said the new find was made approximately 37 miles north of the site where Lucy was discovered in the eastern region of Afar.

The excavated specimens included parts of one individual's skeleton, complete with ribs, vertebrae and pelvis, he said. Animal remains were also uncovered.

Twenty years after Lucy was unearthed, archaeologists dug up the remains of a chimpanzee-sized ape, estimated at 4.4 million years old, in the same Afar region.

[wyattearp]

I wonder what hominid leg would taste like.

Tastes like pork. Hence the term "long pig."

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[js1138]

Another logner thread on the subject.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358022/posts

[Fedora]

On possible identities of the location of Ophir, see commentary on Genesis 10:29 here:

http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?action=displayanchor&pentid=P250

Ophir

The place from which King Solomon brought gold; 1 Kings 9:28, 10:11. Cf. Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12. From the context, it is a place on the Arabian peninsula. Some identify it with El Ophir, a town in Oman. Josephus, however, identifies Ophir with Aurea Chersonesus, belonging to India (Antiquities 8:6:4). The Septuagint translates Ophir as Sophia, which is Coptic for India. There was indeed an ancient city known as Soupara or Ouppara in the vicinity of Goa on the western coast of India. Later authors identified Ophir with the New World (Rabbi Azzaria de Rossi, Meor Eynaim, Imrey Binah 11; David Gans, Nechmad VeNaim 3:75; Tzemach David 2:1533; Seder HaDoroth 5254).

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Aw c'mon, we descended from pigs 60 million years ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1350203/posts

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