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didn't anyone think that they could be flung like a javelin? LOL. They did.... which would sort of mean that Heidelbergensis was more advanced that HNS which does not make a lot of sense since HNS was supposed to be the descendant of Heidelbergensis. I've noted before that I'm not overly convinced ...

Now they determine that they could throw spears after all. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46988459 Neanderthals 'could kill at a distance' Neanderthals may once have been considered to be our inferior, brutish cousins, but a new study is the latest to suggest they were smarter than we ...

This thread is 10 years old. Few of the people in it are still around.

Not a clue. Hard to tell much from a single photo, though.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/java-man-not-so-old-after-all The oldest human remains in Southeast Asia aren’t as old as we thought they were. An Indonesian-Japanese team of scientists has overturned a decades-old estimate of Homo erectus remains from Central Java in Indonesia, shaving off...

Hard to keep up with the explosion of knowledge of early humans.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/archae ... man-story/

Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story

You replied to a 3 year old thread. Try to get a little more current.

Looks more like a duck to me.

It's a trip down memory lane!

I did a little comparative research.

In 1701 the Royal Navy launched HMS Royal Sovereign, a 100-gun first rate ship of the line. It's keel was 141 feet. Even HMS Victory, built in 1756, had a keel of only 151 feet.

Kind of puts this bullshit about Noah's "ark" in perspective!

They've failed to identify any concrete.

Stop trying to shoehorn facts into their fantasy. You can be such a killjoy, Circ!

Actually quite a lot of study went into that and there are variations, of course. Flinders-Petrie estimated 4 million blocks, for instance. But for the most part the range is between 2 and 2.8 million stones which is significant but until someone comes up with a reasonable explanation of how they ma...

The Japanese experiment was real enough, which was the whole point of quoting that passage. There was a Nat Geo special on it many years ago and they utterly failed. Far more recently Mark Lehrner claimed that he would use ancient technologies to remove and carve an obelisk. He ended up using jackha...

Larson is back, sort of.






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New cartoons mixed in with some classics.

I recall reading an essay by an engineer who indicated that in order to support the weight of the stones and men pulling them the ramp envisioned ( a straight to the top ramp) would have been an even larger building project than the pyramid itself but would have to have been built of materials which...