Disaster May Have Killed Ancients

BBC ^ | 5-19-2004 | Paul Rincon

[RussianConservative]

Well technically you are not true, woman are good sex slaves (so kill ugly ones) and kidy is good on retail market also as property.

[katana]

Homo Westvirginensis

[SkyPilot]

They concluded the 350,000-year-old death chamber may have held the victims of a disease outbreak or a massacre.

How about a flood?

[Junior]

Amen. Some folks make up words when they don't know that a real word exists that covers the concept, or when they wish to appear more learned -- an example of the latter would by a Navy Lt. Cmdr. I knew who used the word "observate" instead of "observe."

[Junior]

How about no evidence of such in the cave.

[headsonpikes]

After I posted, I thought that perhaps the infelicitous 'robusticity' was actually some sort of technical word expressing an index of bone thickness, or whatever.

Even so, it's an ugly word, like 'orientate'. (cringe!)

[VadeRetro]

I mean, a neanderthal is one thing, but that thing is basically an ape.

Upper left in this pic is a chimp, skull A. Homo heidelbergensis is skull I.

[VadeRetro]

Before anyone else tries to spank me for not sourcing, might as well post the labels to the above figure from here:

• (A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
• (B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
• (C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
• (D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
• (E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
• (F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
• (G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
• (H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
• (I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
• (J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
• (K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
• (L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
• (M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
• (N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern

[judywillow]

Your item I looks better than the chimp but not by much; the picture Blam posted looks worse than the chimp.

[Jaded]

Also people who can't speak the King's own English. They say things like "conversate". Unfortunately, eventually the words will become acceptable in polite society and get space in Merriam-Webster.

[VadeRetro]

Your item I looks better than the chimp but not by much; the picture Blam posted looks worse than the chimp.

I think both pictures are of the same find, the Broken-Hill Skull.

[ASA Vet]

Your flood occurred 343,000 years later and in a different area.

[smcmike]

Sarcasm?

[jennyp]

I suspect this was an ancient wedding party, and like a flying dinosaur fell on them. (At 2:45AM)...parsy.

LOLOL!

[jennyp]

I think D is an ancient alien. Notice the eerie blue glowing, uh, stuff, packed inside its skull. In fact I'll bet the stuff pulsates & hums when you see it in person. Whatever you do, don't ever touch that skull!

[jennyp]

Note: Skull F is also an alien, but its blue substance has lost all its dangerous energy rays. It's safe to touch.

[VadeRetro]

The aliens no doubt took over the body of some ancient habiline hominid. In fact, this has been known for some time because the movie Horror Express, 1972, perhaps the only time Telly Savalas ever worked with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, explored exactly that possibility. The ancient hominid thing gets dug out of the ice in Siberia and comes back to life. Soon the invisible alien life force jumps out of it, however, and starts taking over modern humans.

"One of us, the monster? But we're British!"

[Consort]

Necropolis

Charnel house and ossuary
Burial chamber and cemetery.
Crypt, vault, and tomb
Catacomb, niche, inhume.

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