[[—“Ardi” was not spread over 1.5 km; the remains of numerous separate Ar. ramidus finds are spread over an area of 1.5 km. (The AiG article posted previously made the same mistake of confusing the 36 or so other Ar. ramidus finds with ‘Ardi’. I wonder if this is the beginning of another urban legend reminiscent of “Lucy’s knee”.)]]
Sorry- but everythign I find on this states that IN ADDITION, more pieces to 36 other ‘individuals’ were found IN THE SAME AREA of 1.5 km- again- if you have info stating the one they put together and are talkign about was al lfound in a nice neat little area- then present it- I find no such statement, and every indicatio nthat al lthe pieces were ifnact spread over hte 1.5 km ALONG WITH more pieces they beleive belonged to other individuals
“Sorry- but everythign I find on this states that IN ADDITION, more pieces to 36 other ‘individuals’ were found IN THE SAME AREA of 1.5 km- again- if you have info stating the one they put together and are talkign about was al lfound in a nice neat little area- then present it- I find no such statement, and every indicatio nthat al lthe pieces were ifnact spread over hte 1.5 km ALONG WITH more pieces they beleive belonged to other individuals”
—Well, I’ve found nothing that implies anything as ludicrous (outside of Creationist sources) as the bones of a single individual being spread out over an area of 1.5 km. I’d be interested to see what your sources are.
Right now I’m looking at the map and pics they have in Science mag where they map out precisely where each piece of Ardi was found. It looks like most of the major pieces of Ardi were within an area of about 3 meters, with a few scraps spread out over another 3 meters or so. I don’t know if you’d consider that a “nice little area”, but ~6 meters is a whole lot less than 1500.