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   > there must have been earlier human forms not yet seen. The placing of   
   > their common ancestor among the intertwined branches of early human   
   > trees is unknown. It all opens up a quest for previously unsuspected   
   > types of fossils.   
   >   
   > It’s the bigger picture here which is particularly exciting. Only   
   > archaeology can help us understand the nature of all these creatures:   
   > how they behaved and thought. Thirty years ago, archaeologists talked of   
   > a revolution marked by the sudden appearance of sophisticated art in   
   > Europe – indication, it was said, of the arrival of the modern human   
   > mind a mere 30 or 40,000 years ago. Evidence from the ground has since   
   > shown such developments also occurred far beyond Europe, and over a   
   > longer time span.   
   >   
   > If early Homo sapiens evolved a million years ago, as this study   
   > suggets, when did individuals start to make art? At what point did they   
   > become ‘modern’ – and why? Could this have happened first in Asia,   
   > rather than Europe or Africa, and again, if so, why? Sooner or later   
   > we’ll get to answer such questions. Doing so will take us into a new,   
   > deeper understanding of who we really are.   
   >   
   > Mike Pitts   
   >   
      
   Commentary from John Hawks   
      
   https://www.johnhawks.net/p/the-problem-skulls-from-yunxian   
      
   --   
   alias Ernest Major   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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