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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
ahh.. Denknesh
 , beautiful she is!
where was this fossil found outside of East Africa? Is it trying to discredit the idea that human life evolved and originated in Ethiopia and Kenya? That is bullshit if so.. its not just fossils in East Africa that suggest this, Ethiopia is home of the oldest continuously spoken language groups suggesting a proto-language to human speech originates there. Ethiopia is home to some of the oldest domesticated food crops and also the oldest domesticated animals. The combination of language and food production with human and pre-human fossils is strongly suggestive of Ethiopia being a craddle of civilization. the clincher, the DNA of mitochondrial Eve is East African (ie, we are ALL east african)
some humans may have evolved in Indus valley and Western Asia simultaneously but our DNA and archaeological evidence suggests that these like the Neandertal went extinct long ago, and so are not the true ancestors of Homosapiens. |
maybe I should have read the article before I went on that Ethio-centric rant? The fossil was found in Afar depression, not far from where Dinknesh was found in 74, and it is only
more evidence of an Ethiopian cradle of human evolution.
So now in Ethiopia you find the oldest proto-human as well as human fossils..
]"When the bones of two early humans were found in 1967 near Kibish, Ethiopia, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160,000-year-old human bones at Herto, Ethiopia. Now, a new study of the 1967 fossil site indicates the earliest known members of our species, Homo sapiens, roamed Africa about 195,000 years ago."