Posted on 01/23/2008 11:48:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years was unearthed in Henan last month, Chinese archaeologists announced yesterday... The Henan find was made after two years of excavation at the site in Xuchang. Archaeologists have worked on an area of 260 sq m, merely one-hundredth of the Paleolithic site... The fossil consisted of 16 pieces of the skull with protruding eyebrows and a small forehead. More astonishing than the completeness of the skull is that it still has a fossilized membrane on the inner side, so scientists can track the nerves of the Paleolithic ancestors... The pieces were fossilized because they were buried 5 m near the mouth of a spring, whose water had a high content of calcium. Besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils, and stone and bone artifacts were found in the small area in the past two years. The pieces of the human skull showed up just when archaeologists were going home for the Spring Festival... The Paleolithic site was discovered in 1965, when IVPP scientists found animal fossils and stone artifacts from soil dug for a well. Excavation started in June 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at china.org.cn ...
Thanks!
In fact, I told them twice.
Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory...an anatomically modern Homo sapiens nearly 100,000 years old. If the estimate is correct and if the skull, broken into 16 pieces seemingly by a powerful strike, demonstrates a feature of the East Asian population, then one of palaeoanthropology's paradigms - "Out of Africa" - may be shattered... Chinese palaeoanthropologists have unearthed some evidence in the past few decades - some teeth, bones, flint tools and domestic animal remains. But what they found was scant, partial or indirect compared with remains found in Africa - an arid, less populated and largely exposed continent where conditions for fossil preservation and discovery are nearly perfect... The preliminary result of optically stimulated luminescence dating completed by Peking University shows that the age of the skull ranges from 80,000 to 100,000 years.
Stephen Chen
Thursday, January 24, 2008
South China Morning Post
I believe very little of what comes out of China. Proof of what they say needs to be verified by outsiders. They are Communists and all Communists are excellent liars.
That should have been the headline on the lead article. (It will get lots more attention)
Please add me to your GGG list. Thx.
There isn’t any DNA evidence that does that. There has been plenty of spin in that regard, though. :’)
It won’t be long before the dating is condemned, starting with Chris Stringer. Speaking of replacement, he needs that.
Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human;
Points To Modern Health Issues
Science Daily | 12-7-2007 | University of Texas at Austin.
Posted on 12/07/2007 8:10:26 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1936456/posts
Yup.
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
Maybe humans from Asia migrated to Africa...then, Toba killed everyone except those who went to Africa. That would explain the DNA. We need some really old human DNA, huh?
Yup, that would explain it, alright. :-))
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
Fossilised skull may end row over origin of 1.3bn Chinese
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Thursday January 24, 2008
The Guardian
Additional reporting by Chen Shi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2245680,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,332218485-108142,00.html
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