Ping!
/mark
Now, about that 6,000 year ago thing ~ ?
“Some of these fibers were woven, some were cut,
and some were dyed black, gray, turquoise, or pink.
They also discovered evidence that these people
were processing fur...”
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Factory was closed - work was outsourced to neanderthals.
The basic reality wrt rc dating is this: It is fairly accurate back to around 2500 years ago. Nonetheless beginning several thousand years ago there was a series of catastrophes, the most major being the flood and the most recent occurring around the time of the Trojan war, in which the entire nature of the solar system was altered, and all of the assumptions which rc dating uses go straight out the window past about the time of the Trojan war.
I hope they were careful about their CO2 emissions....
Why did they put that dumb picture of fabric in the article and then say it wasn’t the fibers found?
How vapid.
glad our march backwards has something to look forward to.
So that’s how long it took to recover from the last Obama style administration.
Woven cloth? Then some sort of loom and spinning equipment.
All of which takes some experience and understanding of the materials used.
Most interesting find, thanks for ping.
“A supposedly 1.8 million-year-old skull has been unearthed in the Republic of Georgia. It appears “primitive” and diminutive (much like the Flores Hobbit man fossils) and the date puts it prior to the Out of Africa event that supposedly led to the colonizing of the world by modern humans. This seems to be a “shot across the bow” by these scientists against the Out of Africa Theory.”
—I read this probably 10x and I still can’t figure out what his point is. As he says, the Out of Africa event is when H. sapiens left Africa and replaced H. erectus and eventually the Neandertals. The Georgian fossils push back the date for the earliest known H. erectus outside of Africa, and some believe the fossils are of a habilus/erectus intermediate or another side branch. But what on earth has that got to do with modern humans leaving Africa 1.6 million years later?
“According to most paleontologists, a division of labor that would allow some people to devote themselves to such activities is not supposed to occur until after the advent of farming…”
—That would be the field of archaeology, but anyway - no, they never thought such a thing. Decorative items, tools, houses, etc *far* older than this have *long* been known. Even Neandertals made such items. With farming and cities such items took a big leap in sophistication and quantity, however. And, of course, there are masterful cave paintings predating the time of this cloth. And actually, this cloth is apparently the new record for oldest cloth at ~30k years old, but it just barely beat out the previous record of 28k years old.
The earliest human dwellings (people living in artificial structures instead of caves) goes back to at least 200,000 years:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835175,00.html
(Note the date of the article)
So it’s odd to put so much importance on this find.
Most paleontologists (now’s the right time for the term) don’t believe that humans have changed much, if at all, in intelligence in the past several hundred thousand years (there are some that believe that humans made some sort of leap in cognition around ~40k years ago or so due to the arrival of the cave paintings and some increases in sophistication of human artifacts, but they seem to be a small minority). So, overall, a very odd article.
thanks for ping/heads up..
Certanly this region—the Caucausus — can claim lots of firsts.
As far as the carbon dating goes-—there are too many questions about it accuracy.