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Archaeologists say they have found evidence that in
\n one respect people were behaving like thoroughly modern humans as early
\n as 100,000 years ago: they were apparently decorating themselves with
\n a kind of status-defining jewelry – the earliest known shell necklaces.<\/p>\n
If this interpretation is correct, it means that human self-adornment,
\n considered a manifestation of symbolic thinking, was practiced at least
\n 25,000 years earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n
from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n Now wait one Paleolithic minute! How can they be so sure that these We mean, those Nassarius gibbosulus shells are just about the most common Of course, we are not completely brain dead. We realize that Although we are not ready to junk evolution and the fossil record, it Archaeologists say they have found evidence that in one respect people were behaving like thoroughly modern humans as early as 100,000 years ago: they were apparently decorating themselves with a kind of status-defining jewelry – the earliest known shell necklaces. … Continue reading
\n three shells with holes in them were the product of human craftsmanship
\n and not just happenstances of nature? Barring of course the possibility
\n that they are going by the snake-like engravings resembling the letter
\n "S".<\/em><\/p>\n
\n shells in the world. There must be literally billions of them sloshing
\n around in the ocean all the time. A lot of them must end up with roughly
\n round perforations in their centers.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n the lithologists think they can identify the unmistakable markings
\n of human
\n craftsmanship, but can they really? These primitive human craftspeople,
\n if they existed, used what for tools? Rocks! And out of the billions
\n of rocks and billions of shells in the sea, don’t the odds favor, eventually,
\n a series of knocks of stone against shell which exactly duplicate<\/strong> the
\n efforts of our putative caveman? On the theory of a million monkeys at
\n a million typewriters?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n seems sane to approach scientific speculation of this sort with a certain
\n skepticism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"