40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found
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STEPHEN MORGAN MAY 8, 2015 IN
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In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.
The Denisovan cave in Siberia
Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Vera Salnitskaya
We know that the Denisovans migrated out of Africa sometime after the first wave of Homo erectus, and well before us, Homo sapiens.
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The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago. Indeed, the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans.
However, tens of thousands of years later, and prior to becoming extinct, they did coexist with us and the Neanderthals for a period, and skeletal remains of hybrids, and genetic studies confirm that they also mated with our forebears and the Neanderthals.
Strangely, however, DNA evidence also suggests that, at some point, the Denisovans must have interbred with an as yet unknown and undiscovered species of humans beings.
Skeletal remains show that the Denisovans were probably far more robust and powerful than modern humans, and were, until now, assumed to be a more primitive, archaic type of humans than us.
But, the discovery of the bracelet suggests this was far from true. Amazingly, the skill involved in making this adornment shows a level of technique at least 30,000 years ahead of its time.
Until now, scientists had believed that such skills had only evolved among humans in the Neolithic period, which began at about 10,000 BC. Indeed, originally, they believed that the bracelet had somehow become mixed up with materials dating from a later period.
However, experiments have now definitely ruled that out, and they confirm that it could not have been made by homo sapiens or Neanderthals. After 7 years of analysis, the scientists are confident that the piece was made 30,000 years before the beginning of the Stone Age.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/scien...tinct-human-species-discovered/article/432798
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Just to make this thread interesting, i am curious what our Christian war roomer's think about the idea that 40,000 years ago, Homo Erectus, were banging neanderthals, and other sub-species of humans.
Seems like quite the thing for the bible to leave out.
You know when Eve's daughter started banging Igor, you would think this would be noteworthy.
Wonder what great sin Neanderthals, and this sub-species committed for the hand of god to make them extinct, and why the bible would leave them out.
Also, for all you Alpha's out there, Neanderthal, and Denisovan's, were physically superior to homo erectus. Guess who the real survivor was?
Spoiler alert, it wasn't the species that could bench the 275 bro. Sounds kind of Beta.
