Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual

LiveScience ^ | 11/30/06 | Robert Roy Britt

[LibWhacker]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

So ... at the very dawn of humanity ... there was this snake ...

[Wormwood]

"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.

[Just another Joe]

GGG ping?

[cripplecreek]

They don't call them shamans for nuthin.

[sheik yerbouty]

It's in the Book!

[Dont Mention the War]

Looks like a rock to me.

[caver]

I see rocks.......

[L98Fiero]

"And so it begins."

Heh. Indeed.

[Young Werther]

LORD VOLDEMORT!

[Alter Kaker]

Not possible! This was 64,000 years before the world was created... right? Don't you people know anything? :-)

[rock_lobsta]

Looks like a carving of a 60 inch plasma and Hooters wings to me...

[PogySailor]

The First Human Ritual:

"Not tonight dear, I have a headache."

Which lead directly to the worlds oldest profession ;-)

[Lando Lincoln]

Goofy post....don't you know that there weren't any years before they were created? ;>)

[Red Badger]

I don't see the snake............

[Red Badger]

I don't see the snake. I see a duck, but not the snake.........

[taxed2death]

....hmmmm, my guess would have been writing ones name in the snow with pee.

(sorry)

[Redcloak]

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain?

[Froufrou]

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..."

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

ROTFL!

I actually LOL'd