forbidden archeology

[dill786]

What we know of Beirut's ancient history is more a series of snapshots than a continuous record. Sixty thousand years ago, early humans made stone tools on the tongue of land that extends out from the Lebanon Mountains and forms the city's modern boundaries. Archaeologists have uncovered a small Neolithic village dating to 4000 B.C. near today's airport. As civilization emerged in the third millennium B.C., the first major cities along the Mediterranean coast took root nearby. Byblos, now a half-hour drive up the coast, flourished, while Tyre and Sidon grew to the south. These important ports became centers for the seafaring Phoenicians, a trading people who spread across the region between the sixteenth and fourth centuries B.C.

, makes sense to me afterall they did carve out the baalbeck stone

[bentech]

ok
so we know neandthals were painting pictures

but now
we have evidence

another "species" of humans

from back before any of our species made a foot print

had the free time to tech

truely momumental news

[dill786]

4000 BC doesn't seem to be that long ago if you take into consideration the estimated age of the Gobekli Tepe ruins which are dated back to 10,000 years plus

[bentech]

oldest broze object found in brittian to date
pushes their bronze age back to 4000 years ago
about 1200 years earlier than previous thought
a dagger which had a studded handle

about 1200 years





http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-30478544" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Intrinsic]

That's 1 hell of a gap between 'art....500k to 40k!
Here's a link to the Nature article (no longer behind a paywall):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 13962.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dang. It looks as if it is still behind the paywall. too bad. just gives a brief synopsis

[country boy]

Not for me?

The manufacture of geometric engravings is generally interpreted as indicative of modern cognition and behaviour1. Key questions in the debate on the origin of such behaviour are whether this innovation is restricted to Homo sapiens, and whether it has a uniquely African origin1. Here we report on a fossil freshwater shell assemblage from the Hauptknochenschicht (‘main bone layer’) of Trinil (Java, Indonesia), the type locality of Homo erectus discovered by Eugène Dubois in 1891 (refs 2 and 3). In the Dubois collection (in the Naturalis museum, Leiden, The Netherlands) we found evidence for freshwater shellfish consumption by hominins, one unambiguous shell tool, and a shell with a geometric engraving. We dated sediment contained in the shells with 40Ar/39Ar and luminescence dating methods, obtaining a maximum age of 0.54 ± 0.10 million years and a minimum age of 0.43 ± 0.05 million years. This implies that the Trinil Hauptknochenschicht is younger than previously estimated. Together, our data indicate that the engraving was made by Homo erectus, and that it is considerably older than the oldest geometric engravings described so far4, 5. Although it is at present not possible to assess the function or meaning of the engraved shell, this discovery suggests that engraving abstract patterns was in the realm of Asian Homo erectus cognition and neuromotor control.

[Intrinsic]

Right, I get that too. But to read the article itself, I get:

Purchase article full text and PDF:
$32
Buy now

not that I'm complaining, information is not cheap, I'm used to the breadcrumbs; spoiled by age of information.

[country boy]

Apparently, 'free' isn't :
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141 ... -drm.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[dill786]

i would have left and IED inside the box

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -1795.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bentech]

oh dear!
heaven send a nice fat rich which mouthpeace to make it all sound reasonable!!!