"Cosmic clock" dates earliest human presence in Europe

CNN ^ | 06 March 2024 | Katie Hunt

[zeestephen]

Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in [southwest] Ukraine belonged to ancient humans...The researchers determined they were 1.4 million years old...No human fossils have been found at the open-air site...the study suggested it would have been Homo Erectus...The earliest human fossils unearthed in Europe are from...Spain and date back 1.1 million years...In Georgia [Caucasus], human fossils found near Dmanisi are thought to be 1.8 million years old.

[zeestephen]

Almost all the fossil and tool evidence still indicates that Hominids settled in Europe by moving from East to West.

[zeestephen]

Archaeology ping for SunkenCiv

[rxh4n1]

“Almost all the fossil and tool evidence still indicates that Hominids settled in Europe by moving from East to West.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Out of Africa” theory gets blown up some day.

[Ken H]

Neanderthal: “Any of you Homos touch my stuff, and I’ll kill you.”

[Psalm 73]

“Any of you Homos touch my stuff, and I’ll kill you.”

"Lighten up, Francis"

[zeestephen]

Last time I checked, Homo erectus fossils appeared in China and South Africa at almost exactly the same time - about 2 million years ago.

Someone had to walk a LONG way.

East or West?

Still waiting TBD (to be determined).

[Adder]

Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in [southwest] Ukraine belonged to ancient humans..

So not mammoths, then...wow...who knew?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That didn’t take long. As would be expected here on FR.

[PUGACHEV]

I just watched a video which re-examined our view of Neanderthals. You may remember the model of a sympathetic-looking Neanderthal with the smile of reason on display at the NY Museum of Natural History. It has become the modern go-to image of a Neanderthal, showing them as our peaceful, gentle cousins. The sub-text is, of course, how we warlike modern humans unjustly wiped them out. It turns out that an examination of their bones revealed that Neanderthals were swimming in steroids and testosterone, making our species girly men by comparison. They were extradonarilly heavily muscled, like gorillas, with their lower bodies adapted for sprinting with quick, violent attacks, and their bones typically displayed signs of multiple fractures and traumatic injury, brought about by close combat with large game. The bones also showed that they ate almost only meat, including possibly us.

All this paints a picture of a violent, aggressive, thuggish species, and one quite far from that museum display.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks zeestephen.

[SunkenCiv]

No link to the video?

[BenLurkin]

Not to be confused with Cosmic Slop.

[PUGACHEV]

Here you go. It’s one of an interesting series on the Neanderthal.

https://youtu.be/_zKxoM8GiO8?si=oTwUgc_uIktI2-o3

[blam]

Posted eleven years ago:

Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa, 1.8 million years ago