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posted by on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-travellers dept.

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...


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:21PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:21PM (#511651)

    When you start with "a mysterious species of Hominins... from 40,000 years ago" and you follow up with "All..." anything, the fantasy flag has been raised high.

    As far as these guys know, the Atlantis myths could have descended from the Denisovans, they might have had a safe space to live with easy food and shelter and they could have spent a lot of their time making complex objects and travelling around to find interesting things to work with.

    But, commonly accepted dogma has been circulated long enough that "experts in the field" have internalized it as fact, rather than widely embraced theories - and it comes out in quotes like the above.

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