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08 Oct 2014, 7:16 pm

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/preh ... years-ago/


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08 Oct 2014, 10:22 pm

I like the details of the pig-deer and the hand stencils. Thank you for sharing that. :)


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09 Oct 2014, 9:53 am

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The fact that people in Sulawesi were doing the same things as contemporaries in Europe indicates cave art may have emerged independently at about the same time around the world, including Europe and Southeast Asia, added archeologist Thomas Sutikna of Australia?s University of Wollongong.


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09 Oct 2014, 11:41 am

I was reading about this yesterday. I try to follow the prehistoric archeology and thought it was a very significant discovery. Just about any discovery is advertised as important, but this one really is important as it just made a huge change to the knowledge of human culture development and spread/timeline.

The gist of one main supposition is that being so close to the Euro-models, it indicates a common source of not only the people themselves but of a common source of already exsisting art which potentially pushes the origin of art back perhaps into Africa 60,000 years ago.

Art is one of the main markers of human cognitive development and if this is true we just got advanced 20,000 years earlier then thought.



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09 Oct 2014, 3:40 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I like the details of the pig-deer and the hand stencils. Thank you for sharing that. :)


You're welcome. :)


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09 Oct 2014, 7:49 pm

Its quite interesting :)



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09 Oct 2014, 8:14 pm

Goes to show you - - anything can be new, even after 40,000 years!


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11 Oct 2014, 5:22 am

I just read how Pat Robertson and Mike Huckeby were certain the dating was off by 35,000 years. Their justification, besides their literal dating of the Bible? They figured we'd have to be smarter than we are now if the earth was any older than five thousand years, and if God had wanted people to have been on the earth any earlier, we'd have to have time machines. I swear, I am not making this up!
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11 Oct 2014, 9:13 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
I just read how Pat Robertson and Mike Huckeby were certain the dating was off by 35,000 years. Their justification, besides their literal dating of the Bible? They figured we'd have to be smarter than we are now if the earth was any older than five thousand years, and if God had wanted people to have been on the earth any earlier, we'd have to have time machines. I swear, I am not making this up!
Times like these make me yearn for a face palm emoticon.


I don't understand - just because humans were around earlier than the bible says doesn't mean there's no God.



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11 Oct 2014, 3:32 pm

androbot01 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I just read how Pat Robertson and Mike Huckeby were certain the dating was off by 35,000 years. Their justification, besides their literal dating of the Bible? They figured we'd have to be smarter than we are now if the earth was any older than five thousand years, and if God had wanted people to have been on the earth any earlier, we'd have to have time machines. I swear, I am not making this up!
Times like these make me yearn for a face palm emoticon.


I don't understand - just because humans were around earlier than the bible says doesn't mean there's no God.


With religious fundamentalists whose whole world view rests on Biblical or Koranic literalism, it might as well be the case, even to the point of rejecting scientific evidence.


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