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Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)
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| 5-29-2004
| Ahmad F. Zahra
Posted on 05/29/2004 5:45:23 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/29/2004 5:45:23 PM PDT
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blam
To: farmfriend
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posted on
05/29/2004 5:46:19 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; A.J.Armitage; abner; adam_az; AdmSmith; Alas Babylon!; ...
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posted on
05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
To: blam
This has more media attention than the Iraqi WMDs buried there. Figures.
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posted on
05/29/2004 5:48:50 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: blam
The language on the tablets ... cuneiform?
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posted on
05/29/2004 5:52:26 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: blam
Clay tablets and copper? The 80,000 year old stuff doesn't add up to me.
To: blam
Didn't Jean Auel write about this in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and successive stories in the same series?
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:00:32 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Live well and prosper. Beam me up, Scottie....)
To: colorado tanker
"Clay tablets and copper? The 80,000 year old stuff doesn't add up to me." Not all sites date back to 80k ya.
"... has unearthed 46 archeological sites that date back to 80,000 years B.C."
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:01:58 PM PDT
by
blam
To: alloysteel
"Didn't Jean Auel write about this in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and successive stories in the same series?" Don't know.
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:03:13 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
They discovered the ruins were 80,000 years old when a worker at the dig noticed the inscription on some pottery believed used for storing olive oil"Best if used by..." ; )
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:03:51 PM PDT
by
kritikos
(Truly true truth)
To: kritikos
'Born on' dates for their ale don'tcha know.
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:22:26 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: blam
80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:34:48 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(The "FreeRepublic French" would rather our grandchildren decide which culture is to survive.)
To: blam
any mention on those tablets about places to hide wmds?
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posted on
05/29/2004 6:36:59 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: blam; MHGinTN; colorado tanker; ASA Vet
A couple notes which hopefully will help answer some questions that have been raised: Copper in its natural form was used before copper was used in smelted form during the Bronze Age. Also, the Ebla tablets discussed in the last two paragraphs of the article are old news that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the new finds discussed earlier in the main body of article, other than apparently that the archaeological team was doing digging related to Ebla research when they happened to stumble onto the other finds which are the subject of the article. The Ebla tablets are from a much later period than the finds which are the subject of the article. And yes, they are written in cuneiform--the Ebla scribes imported Sumerian cuneiform and used it to write in Sumerian as well as Eblaite, a Semitic language.
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posted on
05/29/2004 7:27:48 PM PDT
by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Fedora
Good. Thanks for clearing that up.
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posted on
05/29/2004 7:36:11 PM PDT
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blam
To: ASA Vet
80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?...for that still believe in their college western civ. text books.
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posted on
06/08/2004 5:34:51 PM PDT
by
rightofrush
(right of Rush, and Buchanan too.)
To: ASA Vet
80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible? According to...?
To: Ichneumon
According to some super-naturalists.
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posted on
06/08/2004 7:55:53 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(The "FreeRepublic French" would rather our grandchildren decide which culture is to survive.)
To: ASA Vet
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posted on
06/08/2004 8:00:32 PM PDT
by
mandingo republican
(Baal worshipers I tell ya! They are all Baal worshipers! - FREE HONG KONG, CUBA, IRAN!!!!)
To: blam
First the article mentions 80000
BC not the leftist anti Christian
BCE often used, as it has been at least since the middle ages - let us keep our culture.
Second, according to the latest theory, based on DNA and meteorite evidence, there was a major catastropy 74000 years ago which deminished the amount of DNA diversity, and by inference, the amount of humans lurking around in antiquity. It is possible the finds are 80K years old...but I doubt it as the article mainly cites extraneous material, not the basis of the alleged age.
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posted on
06/15/2004 9:42:19 PM PDT
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
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