Stone Age Code Red: Scarlet Symbols Emerge In Israeli Cave

Science News ^ | 11-8-2003 | Bruce Bower

[blam]

Ping.

[marsh2]

If I recall correctly, red ochre was commonly used on masks of the dead in South American cultures as well.

[farmfriend]

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[Agnes Heep]

Investigators now say that red ocher found in Qafzeh Cave's oldest sections supports the controversial theory that symbolic thinking, a hallmark of modern-day human thought, arose deep in the Stone Age.

In fact, we never would have gotten to the Stone Age without it.

[Theophilus]

"90,000"

Considering that humans are the best propigators, manipulators and adapters in the world, you could project that if humans were writing 90,000 years ago, the world population would be 900,000,000,000 not 6,000,000,000. America would have been linked 85,000,000 years ago and we would be living in paved technological splendor!

"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

[VadeRetro]

Qafzeh is mentioned here as the first site outside of Africa for robust but anatomically modern humans. I used to have a good web page bookmarked with pictures of some of the Qafzeh fossils but it seems to be gone.

[Eternal_Bear]

You forget the effects of the Toba explosion 75,000 years ago. That reduced the human population to a handful.

[Buckworthy]

In Australia, the Bradshaw-period red ochre rock drawings I've seen date back to 40,000 BC. They are elongated paintings of humans, animals and symbols. The techniques they used permieated the ink inches deep in the rock, and are still unknown.

[genefromjersey]

OH-OH !!

Red Clay People Alert !!

Does this mean the First Americans (the ones who followed similar funerary practices all up and down the east coast of North and South America) were Jewish ? Palestinian ?

[montag813]

In Australia, the Bradshaw-period red ochre rock drawings I've seen date back to 40,000 BC. They are elongated paintings of humans, animals and symbols. The techniques they used permieated the ink inches deep in the rock, and are still unknown.

The Bradshaw-period also produced 4 Super Bowls. Truly a historic time.

[Jumpmaster]

{Does this mean the First Americans (the ones who followed similar funerary practices all up and down the east coast of North and South America) were Jewish ? Palestinian ?} Maybe. Could be results of early school-busing.

[montag813]

Does this mean the First Americans (the ones who followed similar funerary practices all up and down the east coast of North and South America) were Jewish ? Palestinian ?

There is no such thing as a "Palestinian". Remember well that Arafat was born in Cairo, and his last two PM-designees were born in Syria and Jordan--all well before the "creation" of Israel in 1948.

[Jeff Gordon]

90,000 years

Sorry, but this can not be true. I read someplace on FR that the earth and universe were only 6000 years old.

[blam]

"Qafzeh is mentioned here as the first site outside of Africa for robust but anatomically modern humans. "

Thanks. I like that. I may post it later as a 'stand-alone' article.

[genefromjersey]

If there's "no such thing as Palestinian",who on earth were those folks occupying the turf during the British mandate ?
You know : the ones who were so opposed to Jewish refugees coming in from Europe prior to the UN recognition of an Israeli state ? The ones who had a Grand Mufti who advocated resumption of the Holocaust ???

[Ff--150]

bump for our 90,000 year old missing links, who liked lipsticks as well...

[VadeRetro]

Don't know what was wrong earlier. Here's one good site.

Another one.

A Dr. Ben Waggoner Slide Show on "The Fossil History of Us." (Just found this one.)

[4CJ]

bump for our 90,000 year old missing links, who liked lipsticks as well...

But did they pierce their tongues?