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Title: Discovery in Israel Could Change View of Man’s Origins--Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they say are human teeth up to 400,000 years old.
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Published: Mar 12, 2011
Author: DAVE BOHON
Post Date: 2011-03-12 09:51:26 by gengis gandhi
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Discovery in Israel Could Change View of Man’s Origins | Print | E-mail WRITTEN BY DAVE BOHON WEDNESDAY, 29 DECEMBER 2010 14:00 1 Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they say are human teeth up to 400,000 years old. A spokesman for Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology said the find could represent the oldest evidence of the human species yet uncovered and could challenge the established scientific assumption that humans originated in Africa. Avi Gopher, the expedition’s lead archaeologist, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the teeth were found in a cave east of Tel Aviv that was in use up until about 200,000 years ago, and were “scattered through the layers of the cave, some in the deeper part, that is to say from 400,000 years and through all kinds of other layers that can be up to 200,000 years. The oldest are 400,000 years old.” Gopher said the discovery, which was first made in 2006, challenges the widely held scientific view that Africa was the birthplace of modern humanity. “It is accepted at the moment that the earliest Homo sapiens that we know is in east Africa and is 200,000 years old, or a little less,” he told AFP. “We don’t know of anywhere else where anyone claims to have an earlier Homo sapiens.” Gopher, whose team has been excavating the prehistoric Qesem Cave in central Israel for the past four years, said that while they cannot be certain of the significance of their finds without further research, dating of materials inside the cave indicate that the human remains found there are the oldest uncovered anywhere. “This conclusion may be of great importance because it may be a first hint at changing some of the paradigms [used to think about] human evolution,” he said. However, some scientists remain skeptical of the find, speculating that the remains are most likely of prehistoric near-human Neanderthals. “According to today’s accepted scientific theories,” reported the Associated Press, “modern humans and Neanderthals stemmed from a common ancestor who lived in Africa about 700,000 years ago. One group of descendants migrated to Europe and developed into Neanderthals, later becoming extinct. Another group stayed in Africa and evolved into Homo sapiens—modern humans.” One such researcher, Sir Paul Mellars, a prehistory expert at Cambridge University, called the possibility that the remains are human “very tenuous and frankly rather remote,” explaining that because teeth can be an unreliable indicators of origin, an analysis of skull remains from the cave would provide a more definite identity of the species. But a scientific report published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology noted that none of the teeth from the cave “shows a suite of Neanderthal characters, [although] few traits may suggest some affinities with members of the Neanderthal evolutionary lineage.” The report concluded that “the balance of the evidence suggests a closer similarity with the Skhul/Qafzeh dental material,” referring to other archaeological sites in Israel where other fossils of early modern Homo sapiens were discovered. Gopher said he remains confident that his team will ultimately uncover skulls and bones confirming that the teeth are modern human remains, predicting that the discovery could go as far as changing the “whole picture of evolution.” Photo of ancient tooth discovered east of Tel Aviv: AP Images
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#1. To: flintlock (#0)
release the Jesus ponies, damn you... Release them I say! We must ride to Avalon!
Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction. The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it...Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction...Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. The Bhagavad Gita
Give me a fucking break. Seriously. This is just phase one of the campaign to make Israel the center of the fucking world. If you dig deep enough in any part of the world, you'll find all kinds of interesting things. I'd be more interested in digging deep down in Iraq, more than Israel any day.
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I used to watch his cartoons as a kid!
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Release them I say! Cry havoc and let slip the Jesus Ponies of war! ODIN!!!
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
You're not far off. "The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
Good golly, Miss Molly!
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
============================================= That is EXACTLY what evolution is .. PURE SPECULATION AND THEORY. Why not make it into a religion? Hitler would be very proud of the Jews, studying how the human race evolved, and all that. ;>)
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
It must be. As if!
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Hitler was the co-founder of Israel, after all.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
If you dig deep enough in any part of the world, you'll find all kinds of interesting things. I'd be more interested in digging deep down in Iraq, more than Israel any day. 400,000 Years is far from the oldest human remains and/or artifacts ever found. While lamestream archaeology and anthropology keep trying to sweep it under the carpet there have been multiple finds that date as far back as the Miocene which dates from 5.3 to 23.8 MILLION years ago. It is just that to accept such a date interferes with Holy Darwinism and throws the preferred scientific fairy tale out the window.
hehe
Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction. The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it...Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction...Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. The Bhagavad Gita
#2. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
#3. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
Avi Gopher
#4. To: gengis gandhi (#1)
release the Jesus ponies, damn you...
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist, gengis gandhi (#2)
I'd be more interested in digging deep down in Iraq, more than Israel any day.
#6. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they say are human teeth up to 400,000 years old.
#7. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
However, some scientists remain skeptical of the find, that the remains are most likely of prehistoric near-human Neanderthals. “According to today’s accepted scientific theories,” reported the Associated Press, “modern humans and Neanderthals stemmed from a common ancestor who lived in Africa about 700,000 years ago. One group of descendants migrated to Europe and developed into Neanderthals, later becoming extinct. Another group stayed in Africa and evolved into Homo sapiens—modern humans.”
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
This is just phase one of the campaign to make Israel the center of the fucking world.
#9. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#7)
Hitler would be very proud of the Jews, studying how the human race evolved, and all that.
#10. To: TommyTheMadArtist, gengis gandhi (#2)
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Seriously. This is just phase one of the campaign to make Israel the center of the fucking world.
#11. To: Flintlock (#4)
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