To: blam
These are fascinating articles, and most interesting.
What has to be borne in mind is that the "people" of pre-history are not the same species as those making history here during the last 6,000 years, or so. No respectable anthropologist I am aware of asserts anymore that these older species are us. "Something" unique happened about 6K years ago, perhaps using the same basic bodies as before, but we clearly ain't the same as them.
To: LostTribe
bump for further review.
30 posted on
12/17/2001 9:54:17 PM PST by
d4now
To: LostTribe
If you believe that the Neanderthals were a seperate species than the humans alive today (which I don't), then the last Neanderthal lived about 28k years ago. This is the belief of most anthropologist/archaeologists in the world today. They believe that modern humans first appeared about 150k years ago. There have been periods in human history that different species co-existed but, it was a long time ago. A good book on this subject is
Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall, released a couple years ago.
The group that we call the American Indians today first appeared in North America about 6,000 years ago and are believed to have their origins in North China.
31 posted on
12/18/2001 3:11:57 AM PST by
blam
To: LostTribe
The year 1997 saw another break through, albeit indirect, for acceptance of pre-Clovis man in the Americas By the time the ivy league academicians get around to adjusting their doctrines of human pre-history:
We will have captured and bred bigfoot
Chupacabra will be a plush childrens toy
Martha Stewart will be in world wide syndication .
Anthopologists are the worst of the worst when it comes to doctrinaire lethargy.
85 posted on
09/15/2005 7:37:30 AM PDT by
i.l.e.
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