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If HSN only interbred with HSS but rarely and is responsible for our large brains, then no matter how frequently or infrequently the two species made it to the altar, we must all be hybrids of the two species. Either that or there must be a lot of half empty skulls around. If we are all hybrids, as ...

Fortunately you can't still be burnt at the stake for heresy, so here goes. I have long believed that HSS and HSN must have interbred as the easiest way of explaining the sudden flowering of art and the very different skeletal build amongst Europeans at least. All othe explanations seem to me to be ...

I can knap flint, but after seeing that image I think I'll crawl away into a corner. It's not a tool, it's art!

True we do appear to have got off track here, but for me, as a newbie on the forum any discussion helps me to know my co-respondents better. If nothing else it helps us not to offend, any fool can make enemies.

Beware! The men in black are everywhere War Arrow.

Change the date, change the locality and you have Egypt. Somethings never change, I sometimes wonder if the Discovery programmes that I watch so avidly simply increase the market for these artefacts.

I live even further west than that War Arrow, in fact much further west and I'd be in Ireland. If you're interested, check the Welsh coast line along Cardigan Bay till you find Cardigan, 4 miles north you'll find Tremain, (if you use a large scale map), 15 houses, 1 church, blink and you'll miss it!...

I have no problem with religion, only with those who corrupt it to their own, usually, evil ends. Sorry for this second post, my idiot computer said it hadn't sent the first one.

My point was that mystical solutions were probably applied to that for which people could offer no 'rational' explanation, and applying an open mind to their difficulties we either have to produce a 'logical' explanation or concede that they might just have something going for them. I have no quibbl...

I agree Min, that's what I meant when I said that some bigwig would use people's beliefs to their own ends, like some of these Muslim nuts our two countries are currently plagued with.

Yeah! If only my local bookshop got past gardening, UFO's, and cook books I would. My neck of the woods was the last in the UK to receive broad band and is just beginning to enter the 20th century. But it is nice and quiet and friendly to be fair.

Yep! Unless you want to blame the gun?

There's nothing wrong with most religions, it's the people who practise them that cause the trouble.

It's not just Rome or PC America War Arrow, did you watch the the Walking with Dinosaurs series? Fascinating, it was. Accurate, we---ll. What annoyed me was the way the programme went from proven fact, through good theory to plain guess work! But it is an unfortunate fact that much talk on the 3 epo...

Having in my youth considered entry into the CofE I finally beat a hasty retreat when I discovered the politics and hypocrisy that was so deeply imbedded within. My reason for such a path was the understanding that seeing the future, as I have, and with absolute and verifiably accuracy, the church s...