Discovery Could Change Dates For Human Arrival On The Great Plains

News Wise ^ | 2-15-2005 | University Of Kansas

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[smith288]

12,000 or 11,000...it was a helluva long time ago...

[mountainlyons]

I hope that they are doing a better job than the bunch that came up with "Nebraska Man" which turned to be one "pig" tooth!

[Lee Heggy]

If they find a huge yellow beak and yellow feet with blue feathers Jayhawkers will be more insufferable than ever.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Discovery Could Change Dates For Human Arrival On The Great Plains"

When I moved here, everyone in my hometown of Seattle assumed I was the first.

B.C.

Fargo, ND

[doc30]

12,000 or 11,000 years ago is impossible. God created the Earth only 6000 years ago. This is more proof that liberal colleges are corrupting society with their blatant falsehoods. This is also proof that C-13 dating doesn't work.

</ creatoid sarcasm >

Seriously, this is a very cool find.

[theFIRMbss]

>the oldest evidence of human occupation in Kansas
>>If they find a huge yellow beak and yellow feet with blue feathers

Archeologists are struggling to explain the decorative footware . . .

[franksolich]

Just out of idle curiosity, sir, what was the "Nebraska man" that turned out a fraud?

[Verginius Rufus]

Pretty neat. They don't find any Clovis-age material in France until the 480s A.D.

[Messianic Jews Net]

Nebraska man (Hesperopithecus haroldcookii) and his wife and family complete with imaginative cave were carefully drawn by a tabloid publication which was then waved around at the Snopes trial to prove common ape-man descent in 1925. In 1927 the fossil evidence (one tooth) was reunited with an extinct pig's skull, from which everyone later admitted the tooth originally came.

Nebraska man's tooth was the blunt instrument with which Darrow killed Bryan.

[blam]

Creationist Argument: Nebraska Man

Nebraska Man illustration by London News

[franksolich]

I was wondering, because I never heard of the "Nebraska man" before; do not recall it being mentioned in any books about the Scopes trial that I read.

[mountainlyons]

Nebraska man was a whole race of prehuman man so that the Americans could have a claim to early man on this continent. They had pictures painted of the a humanoid that they said was what they thought it would look like. When it turned out the only "bone" they had for the whole race turned out to be a pig's tooth so the whole thing was dropped. There are several other frauds in anthropology but they are hard to find.

[Messianic Jews Net]

Thanks for the help, apparently my memory of cave was an interpretation of the rocks in the right margin (see clearer photo). And thanks for the article. The link therein makes clear that whatever hammering Darrow did was off the record and that Osborn's hammering was abruptly withdrawn just before the trial (due to his own doubts). The point stands: Osborn, Smith, and Gregory all tentatively identified the tooth as hominid, Osborn partly because he wanted to show up Bryan, and Smith partly with illustrator Forestier's romanticism. This with other proofs validly demonstrates overready acceptance of a cherished hypothesis.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[stuck_in_new_orleans]

*insert "Alabama Man" South Park reference

[ApplegateRanch]

Good Lord! I have a copy of that picture in an old text book!

My California grammar school was discarding (sacrilege: BURNING!) out-dated texts, back in the 50's, and I "rescued" a few that looked interesting. I was in 6th or 7th grade at the time.

The one that had that picture was a late 1800s/early 1900s "natural science" text. It is still packed away, in one of the many boxes of books.

[Dustbunny]

I am sure that they will eventually discover even older sites.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Discovery Could Change Dates For Human Arrival On The Great Plains

Not unless the discovery includes a time machine. Humans pretty much arrived when they arrived 8-}