JAVA WOMAN THEY ALWAYS PRESUME ITS A MAN WHEN 99% OF FOSSIL FINDS ARE WOMEN OR CHILDREN, AND IN THE CASE OF THIS AREA THE SO CALLED HOBBIT OR THE FLORES HUMAN Anthropologists on Wednesday said they had found the earliest engraving in human history on a fossilised mollusc shell some 500,000 years old, unearthed in colonial-era Indonesia.The zigzag scratching, together with evidence that these shells were used as a tool, should prompt a rethink about the mysterious early human called Homo erectus, they said.The discovery comes through new scrutiny of 166 freshwater mussel shells found at Trinil, on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in East Java, where one of the most sensational finds in fossil-hunting was made.It was here in 1891 that an adventurous Dutch palaeontologist, Eugene Dubois, found Java Man.With a couple of army sergeants and convict labour to do the digging, Dubois excavated part of a heavy-browed skull, a tooth and a thigh bone. Read more: businessinsider/afp-oldest-engraving-rewrites-view-of-human-history-2014-12#ixzz3KusTpGLg
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:37:51 +0000
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