This Confirms that fire using humanity was extant in Israel at least
300,000 years ago. This does not confirm
if this was modern humanity which we expect rose uniquely 200,000 years ago
around South Africa. It is also a
certainty that the expansion of modern humanity simply absorbed all such close predecessors
by sheer weight of numbers.
That is also what happened to the Neanderthals in their turn and quite quickly
also if the real emergence took place much later around 45000 years ago. Then a rapidly expanding human base would
establish a growing village of over a hundred individuals and this would easily
swamp a nearby hunter gatherer group of perhaps twenty individuals. Any clashes would quickly absorb the
Neanderthal women and a couple of generations of back breeding and the traits
are absorbed.
This all could have happened in an eye blink. It takes a century for a human band to begin
calving their own starter bands. Five thousand
years would have been ample.
As an aside, Neanderthals were using fire for at least 400,000 years.
300,000-year-old hearth found In Israel
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Archaeologists
conducting an excavation at a well-known archaeological site near Tel Aviv,
Israel, have discovered the remains of a 300,000-year-old hearth,
shedding new light on when ancient humans began using fire in their daily
lives.
Scientists estimate
that ancient humans began using fire over a million years ago, although exactly
when is still not known. Until now, it was also unclear when humans starting
using it on a regular basis, for example, for cooking daily meals. The findings
confirm that they were doing this at least 300,000 years ago and hint at the
fact that prehistoric humans already had a highly advanced social structure by
then.
Evidence came from the
Qesem Cave, an archaeological site near present day Rosh Ha’ayin, about 7 miles
east of Tel Aviv, where excavations have been underway for more than a
decade. It is not the first time signs of fire were found in Qesem Cave -
excavators have previously uncovered ash deposits and butchered bones dating
back up to 400,000 years old. However, this is the first time that a hearth has
been found.
The findings,
published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, revealed that the hearth
was 6.5 feet in diameter at its widest point and was used repeatedly over
time. Scientists analysed a thick deposit of wood ash inside the cave
using infrared spectroscopy and found to contain bits of bone and soil heated
to high temperatures. Around the hearth, the team discovered remnants of stone
tools that were clearly used for cutting meat. In contrast, flint tools found
just a few meters away had a different shape, designed for other activities.
“These findings help
us to fix an important turning point in the development of human culture – that
in which humans first began to regularly use fire both for cooking meat and as
a focal point – a sort of campfire – for social gatherings,” Dr. Ruth
Shahack-Gross of the Kimmel Center for Archeological Science at the Weizmann
Institute said. “They also tell us something about the impressive levels of
social and cognitive development of humans living some 300,000 years ago.”
The Oesem Cave became
famous in 2010, when a paper was published revealing
that teeth found at the site were human and dated back to between 200,000 and
400,000 years. The finding contradicted the popular theory that humans
arose in Africa 200,000 years ago. When asked whether the teeth provide
evidence that Homo sapiens did not evolve in Africa, archaeologist Avi Gopher
replied: “What I can say is that they definitely leave all options open.
There's been a tendency for people to get so accustomed to the "out of
Africa" hypothesis that they use it exclusively and explain any finding
that doesn't fit it as evidence of yet another wave of migration out of
Africa.”
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1 comment:
For readers of the Secret Doctine the idea of several mankinds existing in the past is not uncommon. The really interesting part is, what was the reason of their demise ?
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