I found this story very interesting:
early humans threw clambakes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
Call it a beach party for early man.
But it's a beach party thrown by people who weren't supposed to be advanced enough for this type of behavior. What was found in a cave in South Africa may change how scientists believe Homo sapiens marched into modernity.
Sounds like they will have to rewrite the books on this stuff.
I bet that pretty soon, they will find a sample of early writing, and it will say,
"Heya, Fred, how's Pebbles?" and the next line will be,
"A regular one, Barn. Don't forget bowling tonight, right?"
Yabba, Dabba, Doo.
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Well, you know Eli. Neandertal disappeared "overnight" and out of nowhere comes Cro-Magnon. The truth is, we just don't know. We may never know.
Of course, Chuck, if you remember the post http://tiodt.blogspot.com/2007/06/mr-slate-calling-fred.html onc could argue that Neanderthals never did go away. We have one running for President right now.
HA!HA! Yes, I remember that one.
They may have been prehistoric, but as for their anatomy and physiology they were essentially "modern."
I suspect that early people were far less superstitious than typically portrayed, and that instead many of them (perhaps as many of us now as a percentage of the general population) were probably quite scientific in their outlook upon the world.
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