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I left Phoenix where it was nice and warm to come to new york and freeze my tail off!

Whose bright idea was it to put the holidays in December?

Hey, I thought you guys were going to keep religion outa this discussion. Besides you know d----- well why.

Leona Conner wrote:Hey, I thought you guys were going to keep religion outa this discussion. Besides you know d----- well why.

Tell that to the Kansas School Board, Leona!
(http://edition.cnn.com/US/9908/12/kansa ... tion.flap/).
Unfortunately, there are too many people that can't separate science from religion.
Our own 'Jean Marie' is another archetypal example: http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewtopic.php?t=59, http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewtopic.php?t=50, http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewtopic.php?t=54.

I've read some of the stuff from her. Won't go into it right now, but wish I had been a member back then. I think after the Holidays I'll start a discussion on that time line thing. Especially since I need to re-read all those pages she quoted from that author (name currently gone from memory, old timers you know) because from some of what I read sounds like he's trying to follow Immanuel Velikovsky's Theory.

This may be in wrong spot sorry if so cheers Terry.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:45:31 +0800
From: "Steve Corsini" <sjcarc@upnaway.com>
Subject: [Ausarch-l] New Scientist Article: Did humans colonise north
Europe earlier than thought?
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Not the best photo of artefacts I've ever seen.

[Steve Corsini]

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Did humans colonise north Europe earlier than thought?
a.. 18:00 14 December 2005
b.. NewScientist.com news service
c.. Rowan Hooper

Caption: Flint tools discovered in Pakefield were evidently crafted from
riverside stones and may have been used to cut meat (Image: Harry
Taylor/Natural History Museum)
Humans may have colonised northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than
previously thought. Stone tools found in eastern England suggest that humans
were there at least 700,000 years ago.

"We don't know for sure what species it was," says team member Chris
Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, "but my bet is it's an
early form of Homo heidelbergensis or Homo antecessor."

H. heidelbergensis is known to have been present in central Europe about
500,000 years ago. Bones were first discovered in 1907 near Heidelberg,
Germany, and have since been found in France and Greece. Hominin remains
about 800,000 years old have been found in Spain and Italy, indicating that
early humans had colonised southern Europe by this time. These early humans
have been classed as another species, H. antecessor, though arguments remain
over whether it is a really separate species to H. heidelbergensis.

The 32 stone tools, made of black flint and many of them still sharp, were
discovered by amateur archaeologists at Pakefield, Suffolk. They have been
dated using several methods. Firstly, the magnetic polarity of
iron-containing minerals in the sedimentary rocks where the tools were found
is aligned north-south, just as it is today. The Earth's magnetic field
underwent a polarity reversal 780,000 years ago, so the site must be younger
than that.

Full Text at NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8464

Posted by
Robert Karl Stonjek



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Thanks for the link. Have to agree about the photo of the tools. Even enlarged many looked like plain old rocks and the other looked very primitive. But then I guess they weren't terribly sophisticated 700,000 years ago and we shouldn't look for too much in their artifacts.

fossiltrader wrote:This may be in wrong spot sorry if so cheers Terry.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:45:31 +0800
bla bla bla bla

Indeed, Terry!
How about deleting 98% of that BS and leaving the stuff that DOES matter?

Mr. Rokcet Scientist....
Could you be more specific?
One man's BS is another man's fertilizer.

Mr Rokcet this is how we work it called data do you think the items come from the ground pre-labeled i have time merely to supply the information i get not translate.I would suggest if it too much for you go back to reading tabloids I dont have the time or patience for your childishness so please have a nice day but think carefully before chasing an academic career. cheers terry.

He's a twat...what part of that inews/!

or even is NEWS?!

fossiltrader wrote:Mr Rokcet this is how we work it called data do you think the items come from the ground pre-labeled i have time merely to supply the information i get not translate.I would suggest if it too much for you go back to reading tabloids I dont have the time or patience for your childishness so please have a nice day but think carefully before chasing an academic career. cheers terry.

You're rambling. Didn't your elementary school teacher teach you how to write simple English prose?
If that is "how you work", small wonder archeology is in full stagnation!

I get 1000$ a day to write properly here well take what you can get.

Lets try to keep it civil, ya'll. Sniping at each other accomplishes nothing.

I agree. There have been a lot of "That's BS!" remarks which
don't help. How about information instead?

But sometimes you guys are really witty!