Friday, June 22, 2007

Human Culture

The existence and dispersion of an aspect of modern human culture has now been conclusively shown to be 100,000 years old.

This ain't Adam and Eve; they must have happened several 10's of thousands of years before that!

Even 30 years ago, when I was obtaining my Anthro BA, our speculation was that we could successfully mate (that is, have fertile offspring) with humans from 150,000 years ago.

Guess we were right!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070618/sc_livescience/80000yearoldbeadsshedlightonearlyculture