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 ...
So all the other guys are wrong and these folks are right. When are they going to admit....”We don’t know”....
But it hasn’t reached Compton yet.
South Africa and Rhodesia=- but the tribes who built those successful cultures were forced out by rasist thugs
Primitivism and communism -- two world views that work well together.
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.
RACISM!
40,000 year old culture FYI
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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)
Rhodesia.
When it was "Rhodesia".
“Modern culture emerged in southern Africa at least 44,000 years ago”
I thought we were still waiting...
ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE AGES
Roman Architecture 27 AD
African Architecture 2012 AD
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.
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!
Atlanta?Well - they feel like different countries.....
Camden?
Chicago?
Detroit?
Gary?
Newark?
Oakland?
Washington, DC?
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