Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our Understanding of African Migration
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-85000-year-old-finger-bone-could-complicate-our-understanding-african-migration-180968720/?no-ist #Archaeology #SaudiArabia #HomoSapiens #Africa #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic #Paleoclimate
(looking at your profile, it seems that you know more about archaelogy than I do, also totally clueless if the following questions pertain to your field or not ..)
Just 2 days back, I learned about "Denisovans"[1] and then this.. Is there any relationship between the two? It's quite intriguing that of such apparently larger than homo sapiens^2, only few teeth have been found.
[1]: http://discovermagazine.com/2016/dec/meet-the-denisovans
@kaushalmodi yes, Denisovans are pretty exciting! Not my field, but the reasons for the few remains found so far are various: they inhabited an area with very little "scientific research per square kilometer" today, and there's a possibility that old findings were misattributed to either Neanderthal or other Homo. I'm not sure what was the other thing that you learned?
> I'm not sure what was the other thing that you learned?
Well, that was it. I was looking for more info like what technologies did they invent then.
I could be wrong but looked like they knew how to drill holes through rocks back then.. but then something happened, all that knowledge got lost.. and technologies like drilling, etc. has to be "re-invented" later.
@steko Yes! That's the one. Though I thought that that "technology" never spread outside of Denisovans.
@kaushalmodi keep in mind that the stone bracelet is thought to be an artifact by modern humans dwelling in Denisova cave, not the earlier Denisovans. The place is really a world treasure for the history of humankind, with remains of three species http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/125-missing-human-ancestor/shreeve-text
btw I while I was able to open that link earlier, it is now redirecting to https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/. Very strange..
Thankfully there's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BTD0vOQfiYkJ:ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/125-missing-human-ancestor/shreeve-text+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-ab
@kaushalmodi same for me 🤔
@kaushalmodi you mean drilling like this bracelet? It is certainly an exceptional find, but that doesn't mean the "technology" was invented and then lost. Making needles out of bone followed the same process and it's a widespread Upper Paleolithic artifact, as far as I know http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/SCIENCE/Denisovan-oldest-bracelet/inside_bracelet_reconstruction.jpg