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Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual
LiveScience ^
| 11/30/06
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 11/30/2006 11:14:15 AM PST by LibWhacker
![](http://images.livescience.com/images/061130_python_01.jpg)
A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals.
Scientists had thought human intelligence had not evolved the capacity to perform group rituals until perhaps 40,000 years ago.
But inside a cave in remote hills in Kalahari Desert of Botswana, archeologists found the stone snake [image] that was carved long ago. It is as tall as a man and 20 feet long.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: botswana; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; human; python; ritual; thefullmonty
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To: LibWhacker
So ... at the very dawn of humanity ... there was this snake ...
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:18:05 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: LibWhacker
"The shaman, who is still a very important person in San culture, could have kept himself hidden in that secret chamber . . . When he spoke from his hiding place, it could have seemed as if the voice came from the snake itself. The shaman would have been able to control everything. It was perfect.
And so it begins.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:19:01 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(Self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly - Ronald Reagan)
To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:20:33 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Wormwood
They don't call them shamans for nuthin.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:23:22 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:25:22 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:25:56 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: Wormwood
"And so it begins."
Heh. Indeed.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:28:10 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
(The media as a self-licking ice-cream cone)
To: LibWhacker
LORD VOLDEMORT!
To: LibWhacker
Not possible! This was 64,000 years before the world was created... right? Don't you people know anything? :-)
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:29:17 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: LibWhacker
Looks like a carving of a 60 inch plasma and Hooters wings to me...
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:31:51 AM PST
by
rock_lobsta
(Offending liberals since 1993)
To: LibWhacker
The First Human Ritual:
"Not tonight dear, I have a headache."
Which lead directly to the worlds oldest profession ;-)
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:32:30 AM PST
by
PogySailor
(Media bias? What media bias)
To: Alter Kaker
Goofy post....don't you know that there weren't any years before they were created? ;>)
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:36:51 AM PST
by
Lando Lincoln
(Democrats: The marriage of ignorance and arrogance.)
To: LibWhacker
I don't see the snake............
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:37:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: cripplecreek
I don't see the snake. I see a duck, but not the snake.........
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:38:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: LibWhacker
....hmmmm, my guess would have been writing ones name in the snow with pee.
(sorry)
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:40:33 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Wormwood
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain?
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:40:36 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: Wormwood; LibWhacker; ClearCase_guy
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..."
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:41:23 AM PST
by
Froufrou
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:44:38 AM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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