Javanese Fossil Skull Provides New Insights into Ancient Humans

Scientific American ^ | 28 February 2002 | Sarah Graham

[Junior]

Exactly!

[Dataman]

What does the evo model's ability to predict have to do with whether the prediction was related to man, dog or squid?

I guess it's you that doesn't get it (Once more, as you say). Your statement, Once more, you read but do not comprehend, does indeed apply to your response.

[Junior]

Oh ye of willful ignorance. The being in question does not lie directly upon the lineage leading to modern man, being isolated from those H. Erecti who gave rise to H. Sapiens. The basic prediction is that they would not have features associated with H. Sapiens that are not shared by our lineal H. Erecti. However, this particular branch has a feature of modern skulls evidently not found in our direct lineal H. Erecti.

[Timmy]

Let me guess. They were short, had large front teeth, and carried cameras everywhere they went.

[PatrickHenry]

Related to Australias Mungo Man?

I donno. We had a short-lived Mungo Man thread a week ago. If you reach any conclusions, let us know:
New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History.

[blam]

Yup. I know. I posted one here even earlier. See my comments here.

Date For First Australians

[blam]

"This suggests that the species lived on the island continuously for more than a million years, contrary to the hypothesis that distinct, consecutive migrations to the area occurred."

This is BS. We all know that during each Ice Age all these islands are recombined with the Asian Mainland through the Sunda Shelf. Sunda Shelf

I just completed reading a book, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders, by Dr Robert Scoch (PhD, Geology and Geophysics)and he speculates that all the world's pyramid cultures originated there. He thinks the folks that lived on the Sunda Shelf (as it went underwater at the end of the last Ice Age) in a number of waves, migrated to Mexico,the middle east, Europe and etc. Also, he says that if there was an Atlantis, it is probably on the submerged Sunda Shelf.

BTW, he says that the 'underwater pyramids' off the coast of Japan are natural formations. He also expects the 'underwater city' off the coast of Cuba to be a natural formation.

[PatrickHenry]

Also, he says that if there was an Atlantis, it is probably on the submerged Sunda Shelf.

A long way from Plato's stomping grounds. I guess rumors really got around in those days.

[blam]

"A long way from Plato's stomping grounds. I guess rumors really got around in those days."

History is filled with 'stories' of sea people. Solon said that Atlantis sank under the waves, wouldn't that produce sea people? Look at the similarities of Noah's and Gilgamesh's flood stories, no doubt they have common origins....The Gilgamesh story predates Noah's by many, many years.

The oldest and largest pyramid ever discovered is in South America, not Egypt. Tell me you haven't ever wondered about the commonality and similarities of the world's pyramids.

[blam]

Eden In The East

[CobaltBlue]

Hi Blam - a while back somebody (maybe you?) posted a link to a really great map of the world during the last Ice Age, showing how much land was exposed. I have been looking for it to no avail.

I would really appreciate it if you or anyone else could repost the link. Thanks.

[PatrickHenry]

Tell me you haven't ever wondered about the commonality and similarities of the world's pyramids.

I really haven't. The pyramid shape isn't all that remarkable, and if the labor supply and stone supply are both available, it's a rather obvious, brute-force way of building a tall structure, apparently within the technological abilities of some early societies. The pyramids in South America are platforms, intended to be mounted by stairs for priestly functions at the summit, and are thus quite different in function from the pyramids in Egypt. Not all that much "commonality," really. I don't absolutely rule out the possibility of some form of contacts between these cultures, but the pyramids on both sides of the ocean aren't at all conclusive. Not even persuasive, at least to me.

[Buckeye Bomber]

What is the point of this comment? I see little to none.

[blam]

"The pyramids in South America are platforms, intended to be mounted by stairs for priestly functions at the summit, and are thus quite different in function from the pyramids in Egypt."

You mean like this Ziggurat in Mesopotamia? The early Egyptian pyramids were stepped like those in South America.

Ziggurat

[blam]

"I would really appreciate it if you or anyone else could repost the link. Thanks."

I did have it bookmarked but, it's missing. Later, I will look through my bookmarked threads....it's posted there somewhere. Remind me if I don't get back to you.

[PatrickHenry]

You mean like this Ziggurat in Mesopotamia?

Grumble, mumble. I'm gonna think about it some more.

[blam]

"Grumble, mumble. I'm gonna think about it some more."

Just speculation, mind you. I'm not completely sold on the idea either....does make one think.

[gitmo]

You're missing the amazing commonalities of the pyramids, no matter where they are located. Somehow, the ancients were able to make every single pyramid on Earth to point 180 degrees away from the center of the planet. Some people claim they did this without any modern equipment or the vantagepoint of a spacecraft.

If some were pointing toward the center of the planet, and some at oblique angles from the core, then one could make the claim that other similarities were simply coincident. But the precision of this orientation defies explanation.

[PatrickHenry]

I'm not completely sold on the idea either....does make one think.

Interesting coincidence. Not inexplicable, however. It's quite possible that unconnected societies could develop the same basic geometric shape for the same function. It will take many more data points to make a credible case for a genuine commonality of the cultures. Like language, art, mythology, weaponry, trade items, etc. You understand.

[Alas Babylon!]

I got it for ya!

Ice Age Sea Level Map