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Modern culture emerged in Africa 20,000 years earlier than thought
Los Angels Times ^ | 30 July 2012 | By Thomas H. Maugh II

Posted on 08/04/2012 11:31:28 AM PDT by smokingfrog

Modern culture emerged in southern Africa at least 44,000 years ago, more than 20,000 years earlier than anthropologists had previously believed, researchers reported Monday.

That blossoming of technology and art occurred at roughly the same time that modern humans were migrating from Africa to Europe, where they soon displaced Neanderthals. Many of the characteristics of the ancient culture identified by anthropologists are still present in hunter-gatherer cultures of Africa today, such as the San culture of southern Africa, the researchers said.

The new evidence was provided by an international team of researchers excavating at an archaeological site called Border Cave in the foothills of the Lebombo Mountains on the border of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and Swaziland. The cave shows evidence of occupation by human ancestors going back more than 200,000 years, but the team reported in two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they were able to accurately date their discoveries to 42,000 to 44,000 years ago, a period known as the Later Stone Age or the Upper Paleolithic Period in Europe.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; bordercave; civilizations; godgravesglyphs; godsgravesglyphs; science
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1 posted on 08/04/2012 11:31:42 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

So all the other guys are wrong and these folks are right. When are they going to admit....”We don’t know”....


2 posted on 08/04/2012 11:34:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: smokingfrog

But it hasn’t reached Compton yet.


3 posted on 08/04/2012 11:36:10 AM PDT by Random Access
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To: smokingfrog
Once again I have to call Bull$hit. Nothing about modern culture came from Africa. Especially South Africa. Once again, name me one, just one successful subSarahan African country.
4 posted on 08/04/2012 11:37:08 AM PDT by Tupelo (TeaPartier ..... but no longer a Republican)
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To: smokingfrog
Wait a minute.Regardless of where this happened...in the Rift Valley or just west of London....I think if we're talking 44,000 years ago it's a little presumptuous to use the word “modern”.
5 posted on 08/04/2012 11:37:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: Tupelo

South Africa and Rhodesia=- but the tribes who built those successful cultures were forced out by rasist thugs


6 posted on 08/04/2012 11:39:03 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: smokingfrog

Primitivism and communism -- two world views that work well together.

7 posted on 08/04/2012 11:40:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
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To: Random Access
But it hasn’t reached Compton yet.

Of course it has.Folks in Compton can work a Blackberry as well as anyone.A report on last year's London riots says that the thugs (most of whom,IIRC,were "of color") used Blackberrys to coordinate their looting and burning.

8 posted on 08/04/2012 11:42:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!)
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To: smokingfrog
modern humans were migrating from Africa to Europe, where they soon displaced Neanderthals.

RACISM!

9 posted on 08/04/2012 11:44:17 AM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SunkenCiv

40,000 year old culture FYI

10 posted on 08/04/2012 11:48:32 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: smokingfrog

Mr. San Man...
Bring me a dream...
bom, bom, bom, bom...
11 posted on 08/04/2012 11:52:01 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Pollster1

Labels for picture:

Objects found in the archaeological site called Border Cave include
a) a wooden digging stick;
b) a wooden poison applicator;
c) a bone arrow point decorated with a spiral incision filled with red pigment;
d) a bone object with four sets of notches;
e) a lump of beeswax; and
f) ostrich eggshell beads and marine shell beads used as personal ornaments.

(Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda Backwell / July 30, 2012)


12 posted on 08/04/2012 11:52:06 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Gay State Conservative

http://blogs.gartner.com/jenny-sussin/files/2012/05/cave-man-social-media-mashable-comic-640.jpg


13 posted on 08/04/2012 11:56:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tupelo
Once again, name me one, just one successful subSarahan African country.

Rhodesia.

When it was "Rhodesia".

14 posted on 08/04/2012 11:56:57 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: smokingfrog

“Modern culture emerged in southern Africa at least 44,000 years ago”

I thought we were still waiting...


15 posted on 08/04/2012 12:04:54 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: smokingfrog
"Modern culture emerged in southern Africa"

ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE AGES

Roman Architecture 27 AD

African Architecture 2012 AD


16 posted on 08/04/2012 12:05:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: smokingfrog
The antediluvian civilization was global. Most traces of it are under 400 feet of water today.
17 posted on 08/04/2012 12:06:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Tupelo

Just because there are no successful cultures in sub-Saharan Africa now does not mean that some kind of society did not arise there 44,000 years ago. Societies rise and fall based on their predominant philosophical ideas which change over time.


18 posted on 08/04/2012 12:07:56 PM PDT by albionin (A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
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To: smokingfrog

Right and witness how far they’ve come with flash mobs, molestation and killing of whites by black mobs, our increased black populations in prison, their disgustingly high rate of dropouts in high school, their clinging to only one type of political persuasion, etc.

They’ve come a long, long way. What a bunch of nonsense!


19 posted on 08/04/2012 12:12:28 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Tupelo
Once again, name me one, just one successful subSarahan African country.

Atlanta?
Camden?
Chicago?
Detroit?
Gary?
Newark?
Oakland?
Washington, DC?
Well - they feel like different countries.....


20 posted on 08/04/2012 12:15:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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