RE-Dating the Ages

[Qoais]

End of an Era

It Figures!  I KNEW they'd change the time line sooner or later, they had to.  Stuff just won't fit otherwise.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2009) — After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of Quaternary Science.

The decision has been made by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the authority for geological science which has acted to end decades of controversy by formally declaring when the Quaternary Period, which covers both the ice age and moment early man first started to use tools, began.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922095703.htm

[Qoais]

A skull that rewrites the history of man
It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia...

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
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One of the skulls discovered in Georgia, which are believed to date back 1.8 million years.

The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind. Scientists have found a handful of ancient human skulls at an archaeological site two hours from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, that suggest a Eurasian chapter in the long evolutionary story of man.

The skulls, jawbones and fragments of limb bones suggest that our ancient human ancestors migrated out of Africa far earlier than previously thought and spent a long evolutionary interlude in Eurasia – before moving back into Africa to complete the story of man.

Experts believe fossilised bones unearthed at the medieval village of Dmanisi in the foothills of the Caucuses, and dated to about 1.8 million years ago, are the oldest indisputable remains of humans discovered outside of Africa.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-history-of-man-1783861.html

[Qoais]

I suppose the news is a couple of years old already, but it's the first I've heard of it, so it's a surprise to me.  Did anyone else out there know of this?

[Aphrodite]

I've never head of it. It ould be something if they meant the state of Georgia as opposed to the country, wouldn't it?

I imagine even that is not the whole story.  Who knows what they would find in Siberia if they ever began digging there?