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Wadley said that while shell beads and other findings that indicate how early humans thought about themselves and their environment may be more glamorous, her bedding and evidence about how plants were processed to create it are a window on a community’s day-to-day life.
The earliest mats are about 77,000 years old, around the time other research shows early Africans were using shell beads, engraving, and innovative stone technology. The mats are some 50,000 years older than other examples of plant bedding found in Spain, Israel and elsewhere in South Africa.
Originally posted by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep
The fact that ancient man, thought outside the box, and did not always choose the simplest solution as their first choice, indicates that they reasoned, they thought, they deduced and calculated.
Originally posted by Unrealised
I'm still convinced we as a species were placed here on Planet Earth, much like the Convicts of Australia, as un-wanted members of another Planet.
Pretty much dumped here, and left to survive.
From then on in, I think we see Evolution.
Originally posted by Schkeptick
This is very, very interesting - but I can't see how it proves evolution. If anything, it shows people were much the same even that long ago.
Originally posted by Barcs
Originally posted by Schkeptick
This is very, very interesting - but I can't see how it proves evolution. If anything, it shows people were much the same even that long ago.
It doesn't prove evolution, but facts speak for themselves. Evolution is proven already and doesn't need to be proven to anybody that knows how to read and research things on their own.
I'd say we have de-evolved
Originally posted by 0cryptic0truth0
reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep
I wonder, then, if we're wrong about evolution entirely. Early man wasn't evolving into modern man. It seems from this article that we're one and the same. The only difference is that they couldn't manufacture the metals and plastics we use today.
Indeed it would seem that the "caveman" we once envisioned is becoming more and more non-existent with each new discovery.