2 Million year old artifacts in South Africa, page 1

South Africa

www.news24.com

Johannesburg - A group of local and international archaeologists has discovered artefacts said to be two million years old inside a Northern Cape cave, the SABC reported.

The archaeologists from Canada, South Africa and Israel said it had taken more than 50 years to make the breakthrough inside the Wonderwerk cave outside Kuruman.

They have found 30 artefacts.

The team says the cave itself bears testimony to what has been described as the home to the origin of human culture.

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[edit on 18-12-2008 by Comatose]

2 million years.

I guess we've come a pretty long way. Or not? Sometimes I think we could have (wish we had) gone so much further in that length of time. Not to say that I don't appreciate our progress, I just see so much effort being put into ridiculous things that will never count for anything to anyone else but those from whom the effort comes.

I wonder if this will shed light on any one of the numerous theories surrounding the origins of the human (or where we're going)?

C'mon, we all know the earth is only a couple thousand years old.

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reply to post by Comatose

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Great find, don't mean to be a grinch but www.abovetopsecret.com....

reply to post by schrodingers dog

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Grinch...


ATS allows a Breaking News Thread and a Regular Forum Thread on the same subject.

reply to post by Mainer

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Yeah, there was some issue with the apostrophe in the title I copied from the news article.

reply to post by schrodingers dog

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Sorry, I don't really visit that part of the forum too often.

To be honest, it should have been posted here in the first place

reply to post by Comatose

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You have to ask yourself has our "progress" progressed us a species?

We have big houses, easy access to food, and clothes on our backs. We have a complicated social, political, and economic structure, we've traveled to space, and landed on the Moon and Mars...

But what has it gotten us? Are we any better off than the animals we claim to be superior to?

Look around. How many people are truly happy? War, disease, poverty, crime, torture, famine, homelessness, depression and low self-esteem, corruption, and constant lies from society and pop culture bombarding anyone within ear and eye shot of a television, computer, and radio.

Is that our "progress"? Is that what we've "accomplished"?

We've accomplished no more than swallowing the lies that have made all of us the slaves of the upper 1%. I'm sure life is grand for them, but in the bigger picture, humans have devolved.

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