[The Magical Mischief Tour]

African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human

Taliban calls find unislamic, threatens jihad...

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Oh yea, click on the source link for the rest of the article, I was too lazy to paragraph out the remainder...

[Dallas]

I never believed in evolution until I saw James Carvelle on TV....

[Dialup Llama]

Now dont be diggin up any monoliths ok?

[Gordian Blade]

More than 70,000 years ago...

In an interview by telephone from the cave site, Dr. Henshilwood said: "We're absolutely convinced of the dating of the tools. Analysis of them makes us confident that what we have is evidence of a bone-tool industry, not just occasional pieces." [From the original article.]

Uh, oh. Gird your loins for an assault from the creationists.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Isn't this about the point where the people who say the Earth is 150 years old, and that the Sun revolves about it, are supposed to chime in?

[drstevej]

Homo sapiens arrived there from Africa about 40,000 years ago.

Do you ever resent being called a HOMO sapien? Wouldn't HETERO sapien sound better?

[Cleburne]

Ah, that can't be right. We know humans wandered around for hundreds of thousands of years doing nothing, apparently, then steadily (or perhaps not so steadily) burst out of some primitive lingo, and eventually progressed to that shining glory, modern man. Obviously this find is fake, as it's far to old-we all know man was so primitive back then.

[blam]

Bump for a later read.

[medved]

More than 70,000 years ago, people occupied a cave in a high cliff facing the Indian Ocean at the tip of South Africa....

Bullshit. The maximum possible range of radiocarbon dating is les than that and there is no other way to date human artifacts to such an age even in theory. Moreover, rc dating makes numerous uniformitarian assumptions, most notably that the ratios of carbon types in the atmosphere have always been as they are now, and tht assumes that no pervasive and rapid change has ever occurred, and that is known not to be the case.