Posted on 04/30/2011 1:18:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
About 700,000 years ago, at a time when China's climate was chillier than it is today, a group of Homo erectus lived in a cave system in Zhoukoudian China.
They had a striking appearance. With a heavy brow ridge, large robust teeth and a brain size approaching our own, these people had long since left Africa, their ancestors travelling thousands of kilometres into East Asia.
Until recently scientists believed that they lived in more recent times, perhaps only 500,000 years ago. That idea was repudiated two years ago in the journal Nature, when a team of scientists used aluminum/beryllium dating to show that Peking Man was about 700,000 years old...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Chen Shen, of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada, have been re-examining the tools that Peking Man used...
"The new study suggests that Peking Man lithic technology was not simple as previously thought," writes Dr. Shen in the abstract of a paper presented at a recent Society for American Archaeology conference. "The micro-wear evidence indicates many typed tools were made for specific tasks related to processing animal substances."
That's not all. Peking Man didn't just know how to butcher animals, he also knew the best way to hunt them -- with the business end of a stone pointed spear.
"Importantly, most pointed tools were probably hafted, and this provides arguably the earliest evidence for the composition tools in the Chinese Middle Pleistocene," writes Shen.
(Excerpt) Read more at unreportedheritagenews.com ...
A replica of the skull of Peking Man. New research indicates that this group of Homo erectus used spears and sophisticated butchering tools. Photo by Yan Li, CC Attribution share-alike 3.0 unported
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Labor costs were cheaper there, I guess.
WEAPONS made our species.
Maybe he didn’t adapt to the cold. Bye, bye erectus.
Fossils are just a snapshot. Erectus is ancestral to everyone living today — at least in Asia.
The cold didn't bother him.
Been going on for longer than we realized....
So that is where all the weapon making jobs went. Damn free trade!
Peking Man sold cheap weapons to another larger tribe for cheap. The other tribe became indebted to Peking Man and unknowingly became slaves to Peking man;s tribe. The larger tribe says it doesn’t want the weapons but still bought from peking Man.
Now that larger tribe has a leader who’s “not really’ from that tribe but another dumber tribe. That leader’s wife is uglier than the tribe leader..like sasquatch.
That is probably why they came up with the "one child" policy.
Since Peking Man was a fraud...hoax...the point of this story “not”!
No, but Peking Duck got the knife!
;’)
Peking Man was not a fraud or a hoax... the point of your post “not”!
I’m sure you’re speaking allegorically.
Clinton probably sold them the technology to do it
I think you have Peking Man confused with Piltdown Man, which was in fact a hoax.
Yeah, I’m not convinced this guy’s ancestors necessarily came out of Africa.
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