I'm just wondering what the evidence their is suggesting cavemen were actually cro-magnum., and not just outcasts, and cave dwellers. How do we know they existed around 25000BC to about 4000BC, and lastly, if you know, what was the first record made by the homosapien(not the supposed cro-magnum) according to archeology.
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How do we know cavemen predate the first civilizations?
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bravozulu
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The idea that ancient people lived in caves comes from the fact that caves are the best places to preserve artifacts and human remains. Some caves may have been inhabited from time to time but most humans probably made shelters. The Cro-Magnon were just modern humans or Homo sapiens. They have various different means of dating fossils. Most use the ratio of some particular radioactive isotope to date the finds. For dates less than about 40,000 years, they usually use carbon dating. One of the first known historical records were out of Sumeria maybe 5,000 years ago and they called it cuneiform. It was done on clay tablets. Older tablets about 5,500 years old were found in Pakistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/334517.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/334517.stm
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cowboydoc
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We can only interpret what we find. Your way out of touch here. You see, the first Neanderthal dated from 130,000 to about 65 thousand. We're pretty sure since all their bones have been found in caves that they lived in them and were not "outcasts" as you supposed. Cro-magnom came along about 65 thousand or there a bouts, they interlocked mysterously about this time and we're tring to interlock these with the new DNA threads we've found.
One DNA child that is dated 24 thousand is more Neanderthal than cro but we don't know if this means they did interject.
One DNA child that is dated 24 thousand is more Neanderthal than cro but we don't know if this means they did interject.
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Richard B
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Dating is done by many methods, the most reliable is carbon or other radioactive decay method. These methods are physical and do not rely on records or guesses.
layer , relative dating, is good but not absolute
Pictographs are not written language.
"writing" on clay goes back about 3-4 thousand yrs as far as I know. Egyptian is later, 2-3 K yrs. dates not exact.
PS I just saw the "Lucy" bones 3.2 million yrs, pre-human. On display in Seattle
layer , relative dating, is good but not absolute
Pictographs are not written language.
"writing" on clay goes back about 3-4 thousand yrs as far as I know. Egyptian is later, 2-3 K yrs. dates not exact.
PS I just saw the "Lucy" bones 3.2 million yrs, pre-human. On display in Seattle