Animal Life on Earth Emerged Far Earlier than Previously Believed - The Debrief

Many important events in premodern studies are being re-dated, largely assisted by new technologies. Here considerable challenging field work was also involved, pushing back a major evolutionary development by over 200 million years! Jazz Shaw discusses the finding with Elizabeth C. Turner, author of the relevant study. Archaeology summarizes what's behind New Dates for North Africa's Acheulian Stone Tools. Homo erectus was apparently crafting hand-axes there 600,000 years earlier than the recognized c.700,000 BP. On July 22 we reviewed an article suggesting A 51,000-year-old Carved Bone is One of the World's Oldest Works of Art, Researchers Say of a German cave discovery. That piece allowed some Spanish cave paintings might be older, but "their date is disputed." BBC News' Neanderthal Markings in Spain Suggest Cave Art, Study Says reports a new study supporting an "about 65,000 years old" date for artificial markings, antedating the arrival of modern humans in that area. The Oldest Known Cosmetics Found in Ceramic Bottles on Balkan Peninsula push that decorative development back to "between 4350 and 4100 BC...farther back in time for cosmetics use than Mesopotamia and Egypt"--per Bob Yirka. And some of us now know whom to blame for acute school day woes, as a 3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet is Earliest Known Example of Applied Geometry. (WM)

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