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ATLANTA, GEORGIA—Marks on a pair of 3.4-million-year-old animal bones found at the site of Dikka, Ethiopia, appear to have been caused by butchering with stone tools, argue Jessica Thompson of Emory University and her colleagues in the Journal of Human Evolution.
The new study uses statistical analysis of marks on more than 4000 bones found at the same site to refute a claim made by other scientists in 2011 that the marks were caused by incidental trampling. The bones date to long before the emergence of the genus Homo and appear to significantly push back the evidence for the earliest known instance of large animal butchering.
"Our analysis shows with statistical certainty that the marks on the two bones in question were not caused by trampling," Thompson said in a press release. "While there is abundant evidence that other bones at the site were damaged by trampling, these two bones are outliers. The marks on them still more closely resemble marks made by butchering."
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
There was another thread that tells about evidence of the creation of human tools roughly around the same time period as this animal bone.
I'm guessing it's humans who butchered animals. Which made me think What if there is an ancient advanced human civilization that got bombed back to stone age a long time ago?
originally posted by: RealTruthSeeker
Most likely knowledge of the emergence of the Homo genus is inaccurate. I'm not surprised though.
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
There was another thread that tells about evidence of the creation of human tools roughly around the same time period as this animal bone.
I'm guessing it's humans who butchered animals. Which made me think What if there is an ancient advanced human civilization that got bombed back to stone age a long time ago?
originally posted by: RealTruthSeeker
Most likely knowledge of the emergence of the Homo genus is inaccurate. I'm not surprised though.
originally posted by: jude11
originally posted by: RealTruthSeeker
Most likely knowledge of the emergence of the Homo genus is inaccurate. I'm not surprised though.
Of course it's inaccurate.
Don't you know we can only account for 6,000 yrs and humans used to live with dinosaurs? That is of course if your religion allows for the existence of dinosaurs.
Jude
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
Perhaps......
But who says they were Homo anything? Perhaps they predate even our own genetic model.....
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
And yet science is not willing to acknowledge just how old intelligent life on this planet could possibly be
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
WE have seen over and over the use of the "control system" to keep information and "discoveries" within a predifined parameter......
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
Hence the reason I think they could be sings of something totally different.....
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
I dont disagree with you, just thinking outside the norm
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
a reply to: Ghost147
wait wait........
You post something that is clearly OUTSIDE the realm of common thought for intelligent homosapien existence , IE tools.....
And then ask me for a source when I make the suggestion that perhaps the scientific community isnt honest it its presentation of how long an intelligent and semi advanced species has been around......
Thats like contradicting your own OP.......
Whats your angle?
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: Ghost147
Stone 'cutting' tools would leave sharper grooves.
Perhaps some rocks rolled down a mountain and crushed the animals?