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In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.
The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia's border with China and Mongolia. It was found next to the bones of extinct animals, such as the wooly mammoth, and other artifacts dating back 125,000 years.
The cave is named after the Denisovan people — a mysterious species of hominins from the Homo genus, who are genetically different from both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
[...] Strangely, however, DNA evidence also suggests that, at some point, the Denisovans must have interbred with an as yet unknown and undiscovered species of humans beings.
Skeletal remains show that the Denisovans were probably far more robust and powerful than modern humans, and were, until now, assumed to be a more primitive, archaic type of humans than us.
But, the discovery of the bracelet suggests this was far from true. Amazingly, the skill involved in making this adornment shows a level of technique at least 30,000 years ahead of its time.
It is an astonishing find, having been exquisitely crafted 30,000 years before the Stone Age, which is considered to have begun 10,000 years ago. It is like discovering a 747, made a thousand years before the Wright Brothers ever flew...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:34PM (7 children)
And in 30,000 years time a human who believes civilization is only 10,000 years old will discover a head garment worn by pre-civilized proto-humans. It will bear the strange symbols of an ancient language: "Make America Great Again".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:15PM (5 children)
On a serious note, given the short time frame of modern history it is pretty amazing that we should think written language and more modern technology is such a new thing. Seems quite likely that human civilization has risen and fallen many a time in the last million years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:31PM (4 children)
Yeah, well, when their time machine predicted that an idiot who uses Scotch tape on his ties and can't tie them evenly [time.com] (not the original link from yesterday, but thanks to the AC who brought up #tiegate, which I will now call this, unless #fashiongate is better, oh hell, I'm no good at #gategategate nomenclature) and eats pizza and fried chicken with a fork [theguardian.com] (argh! i can't even!!eleven!)....
Anyway, when they got that result from their time machine, it's pretty clear that the Denisovans and Neanderthals left for space aboard giant sleeper ships to avoid the embarrassment of having to share the planet with such a complete devolution of hominids that these self-styled "sapiens" were becoming. They also made sure to hide any evidence that there had previously been a technological, space-faring civilization on this planet with the hope that these "sapiens" would just kill themselves and delete their accounts, after which they'd return along with the Silurians and found the First Great and Bountiful Terran (not "human" you racists!!!!) Empire.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:14PM (3 children)
Interesting story about the pizza with a fork. It depends on the pizza, you can't always use your hands with deepdish without getting messy. In general I eat without any utensils (including salads, steaks, etc) then just wash up after, but have eaten pizza with a fork.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:36PM (2 children)
Clearly you are doing many things wrong.
Let me ask you this now that I have your attention. Are you now eating or have you ever eaten a taco bowl in the United States?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @07:56PM (1 child)
No, the closest is probably the one time I tried to go to a taco bell but couldn't understand what they were saying. It wasn't spanish, I just didn't recognize 75% of the words they were saying. I just wanted a cheese quesadilla...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:26PM
I used to eat Taco Bell tacos fairly regularly. Then they came out with the "Chalupa" - my first Chalupa gave me food poisoning so powerful that I have not returned to Taco Bell since.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:23PM
Archaeologists 30,000 years in the future will likely find the "crazy layer" - everything proceeded normally, more or less predictably for 4 billion years, then all hell broke loose for about 500... nobody remembers anything from that time anymore, but it clearly was a time of unimaginable chaos.
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