Thanks for the pings and comments. I guess Petraglia has never heard of all the proceed-from-bias archaeology that has been going on for over a century, in search of the must-be-there human ancestors.
Then there's this: "Archaeologists have been very busy in the Near East and Europe for 150 years, with continuous excavations. If the same amount of work happened in Africa, we might find more and older burials," said Michael Petraglia, coauthor of the study and a professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
The inevitable dig.
And nothing else. No significant signs of ancient culture or technological advancement in the past 100,000 years.
Thanks for the pings and comments. I guess Petraglia has never heard of all the proceed-from-bias archaeology that has been going on for over a century, in search of the must-be-there human ancestors.
That’s not a dig it’s a statement of fact. It’s good that parts of Europe and Asia have an enthusiastic population of people who encourage anthropolgy. But, if you want to look for early modern humans, Africa is the place to go. With the situation in many parts of Africa, any investigation will have to wait.
This burial is of a modern human (Homo sapiens) dated at 78K BP. It pushes the boundary of what we know about early modern human behavior.
Has he never heard of the Rift Valley—The Cradle of Mankind— and all the fossils found there? Or Raymond Dart’s Taung Baby in South Africa?
