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 tetrapod78 rated 9 months ago -
This tantalizing article's claims are more than it actually delivers. The writer questions what science knows about the origins of modern man and when religion begins. Big questions. If true, the migration out of Africa is much earlier than believed, Africa is not the only wellspring of our...
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- commerican rated 9 months ago
- Maybe.
- tisstupid rated 9 months ago
- A "pit of bones" has been found that is 300,000 years old. It possibly represents the oldest example to date of ritualistic burial which suggest religion is an even older part of humanity than first thought. A hand axe carved from rose quartz has also been found which adds more evidence as to the site's purpose.I find it interesting that it appears humankind has believed in the existence of a deity and/or afterlife for such a long time.
- andrew222 rated 9 months ago
- The earliest evidence for humans using religious rituals?
- yakercat rated 9 months ago
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a secret pit of bones and their story...
- PapaDen rated 10 months ago
- What is the secret of the Pit of Bones? Were these ancient skeletons once the worlds first religious followers...
- tetrapod78 rated 9 months ago
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This tantalizing article's claims are more than it actually delivers. The writer questions what science knows about the origins of modern man and when religion begins. Big questions. If true, the migration out of Africa is much earlier than believed, Africa is not the only wellspring of our species' evolution and this Spanish site at "...Atapuerca gives us incontrovertible evidence..." of much earlier existence of religion in modern man's ancestors. The term "incontrovertible" is critical in an article that is largely descriptive and uses many conditional phrases like "no other explanation," "likely," "maybe" and "might." I am not quite convinced that man's ancestors were "buried" in the silty Pit of Bones 300,000 years ago. It is well worth following although this was posted today, yet it is already a three month old article. There must be other articles published by now. More scholarship will cast a stronger light upon these issues. Conjecture and interpretation are unavoidable but what is sufficient for the burden of proof to be met? What are the stakes here? It is fascinating and may be tempting to believe new theories but there is no rush. We have waited 300,000 years already. It doesn't seem that long. (smile)
- annie52 rated 9 months ago
- A fascinating read. A human tooth thought to be 1.2million years old, and a cave 60metres below the surface containing skeletons about 300,000 years old, complete with "ritual offerings"
- wladston rated 9 months ago
- cool ... can someone confirm if it's real ??
- HomeroB rated 9 months ago
- From the page: "What is the secret of the Pit of Bones?"
Interesting, if a bit thin, article on a newly discovered bone site in Northern Spain... the implications of this discovery is rather large!
- ladygray rated 9 months ago
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A few weeks back, for instance, the archaeologists in the so-called Elephant Pit found a humble human tooth. But it was a tooth with an ancestry: it was 1.2m years old.
A Must Read, thanks to anie52 for sending this my way : )
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