'Old Man Of Chad' Confirmed As First Hominid

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-7-2005

[mhx]

Hanging Chad jokes commence!

[SouthTexas]

I thought that would have been Al Gore.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Long lost twin brother of Keith Richards. ;)

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Toumai (Picture too)

[sinanju]

I saw the skull on BBC world news. Not much to go on there. The big issue was the angle at which the spine attached to it. At an angle would mean a knuckle-walker, up-and-down would mean a biped. There have been some mighty parlous fossils specimens that whole theories and reputations have been built on. Soon to be overturned by the next big discovery.

One of my favorites is the arguments over the most primitive stone tools, i.e., were they naturally or manually chipped?

[Rocky]

Obviously, the other chimps killed him because of his odd-shaped head.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Please, everyone! Have a little respect for my great great ... great grandfather.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Earliest Found" not "First." Their headline writers need some editing.

[Centurion2000]

Maybe they should just name this guy .... CHAD ?

[lambo]

Isn't there a limerick that commences:

"There was an Old Man of Chad"?

If not, shouldn't there be?

[Verginius Rufus]

I loved you all the summer through
I thought I'd found my dream in you,
But now it's over and done,
'Cause that was yesterday
And yesterday's gone.

We walked together hand and hand
Cross miles and miles of golden sand
For me you were the one
But that was yesterday
And yesterday's gone.

We had such happiness together
I can't believe it's gone for ever and ever.

Wait till summer comes again.
I hope that you'll remember when
Our love had just begun.
I loved you yesterday,
But yesterday's gone.

--Chad Stuart

[blam]

"One of my favorites is the arguments over the most primitive stone tools, i.e., were they naturally or manually chipped?"

Yup. George Carter was continuously finding stone axes, etc. He would take them to archaeologists and they would say that they were manmade stone tools...until, he told them he found them in California. These 'axes' he found came to be known as Carterfacts.

"The most controversial site is Saint Eble, just below Mont Coupet, in southcentral France. Here one finds quartz fragments that look manmade to some archeologists, but seem products of natural fracturing to others. These crude objects are what some American archeologists call "Carterfacts," after G. Carter, who has found similar rock fragments in the Americas and dates them much, much earlier than 12,000 B.P.

[leadhead]

Isn't there a limerick that commences: "There was an Old Man of Chad"

Thought everyone knew it:

The once was an Old Man of Chad
Who drove creationist quite mad
With the slope of his spine
He made them all whine
"Despite all our learning, we've been had"

[Constitution Day]

Just had to ping ya.

[microgood]

Digging up bones is no way to go through life.

[Migraine]

But Prof Brunet presents a virtual reconstruction of the original look of the skull, based on a technique called computed tomography1) "virtual reconstruction"? You can make a computer image look like whatever you want it to.
7 million years old? Based on what dating method?

These guys wax rhapsodic at the drop of a skullcap.

[sinanju]

Ahh! But I know of at least one anthropologist who is convinced that Homo Erectus and early hominids DID live in the Americas hundreds of thousands of years ago BEFORE the ice ages but that the great glaciers scoured away all trace of their existence.

[blam]

"Ahh! But I know of at least one anthropologist who is convinced that Homo Erectus and early hominids DID live in the Americas hundreds of thousands of years ago BEFORE the ice ages but that the great glaciers scoured away all trace of their existence."

I'm one of those:

Calico: A 200,000 Year Old Site In The Americas?

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP - HOMINID MYTH