[blam]

A challenge to the 'out of Africa' theory? I recently read of a 2.25 million year old human site in China, I don't think this is it.

[pabianice]

Exciting if true. But consider the source.

[jlogajan]

Modern humans appeared, what, 150,000 years ago? And we all share a common ancestoral individual that had to exist somewhere specific, even if similar individual pre-modern humans had spread about more widely.

[blam]

I find this interesting considering that the oldest inhabits of Africa (still survivng today, albeit mixed race now) are the Han and Kung! Bushmen. They are bronze colored, have Asian facial features and their children have a tell-tell 'Mongoloid spot'. They are physically different than the Bantu (Black Africans) who invaded their historical territory. The Bushmen have oversised buttocks and the females have a unique 'apron' over the genitalia. These unique physical features are recorded in ancient Egyptian writings.

[Jim Noble]

I bet these ancestral hominids were very good at math.

[Bahbah]

Thanks for the post. This is just fascinating stuff.

[Junior]

Bump.

[blastdad51]

I refuse to argue with those who claim they can trace thier ancestry back to a bunch of monkeys. My parents are of a somewhat higher lineage

[JimRed]

November, 4001 AD- Scientists excavating ancient transit tunnels in billion year old bedrock prove technologically advanced society existed before dinosaurs...

[I'm ALL Right!]

bump to read later

[Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi]

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[RightWhale]

What are they trying to prove in China? That they are racists?

[PatrickHenry]

Get in here; it's been too long since we had a stimulating thread.

[medved]

The latest archaeological discovery at the Old Stone Age ruins in Yangyuan County, north China's Hebei Province, proves that human activities began in east Asia some 2 million years ago, archaeological sources said. Chinese archaeologists unearthed more than 800 stone tools and animal skeletons left over by the ancients at historical ruins in a stratum dating back around 2 million years.

The problem, other than the usual and obvious problem of circularity inherent in dating strata from fossils and then dating fossils from strata, is that the people making these claims for timeframes are the same people who tell us that dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago, and that is now KNOWN to be BS:

[Straight Vermonter]

If I remember correctly many Asian archeologists have had this belief for a while based largely on ancient skeletons found in Indonesia.

[blam]

Bump for you.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past.

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