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. (visit the link for the
full news article)
[edit on 18-12-2008 by Comatose]
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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. 
www.news24.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
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Your title leaves a lot to be desired.
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reply to post by schrodingers dog
Grinch...
ATS allows a Breaking News Thread and a Regular Forum Thread on the same subject. 
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reply to post by Mainer
Yeah, there was some issue with the apostrophe in the title I copied from the news article.
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reply to post by schrodingers dog
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
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Brilliant find this is.
It kind of makes you think what we haven't yet found.
If we can find things 2 million years old imagine how many things there might be that are 10-20 millions years old.
They found part of a human jawbone in China, Wushan man, plus many tools and artifacts, which they used 8 different dating techniques to determine it
was 2.04 millions years old.
I think things from say 20 million years ago might be destroyed by now though.
Although eventually we might find something.
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reply to post by Comatose
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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Unfortunately, there are still no other sources for this story yet.
You would have thought this would be big news though right?
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