"90,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Found in Saudi Arabia " Topic

…. Could Rewrite Human Migration History

"The small (just one inch, or 3.3 cm, long) bone was found at the site of Al Wusta, an ancient fresh-water lake located in what is now the hyper-arid desert.

Dubbed Al Wusta-1, the relic is the oldest directly dated Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and the Levant, and suggests that people traveled further than initially thought during the first reported human migration into Eurasia.

Prior to this discovery, it was widely believed that early ventures from Africa into Eurasia had been unsuccessful and only ever reached the parameters of the neighboring Mediterranean forests of the Levant…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Wouldn't it be hilarious if 90,000 a prehistoric migratory bird dropped that finger off in Saudi Arabia from a human it ate thousands of miles away? :)

Dan
PS. And so, thousands of miles away, the fossilized remains of a nine-fingered man lie buried under layers of sediment, waiting to be discovered by future humans (or whatever comes after).

Man, that's exactly where I lost it!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Feels a little like running ahead of the evidence. I want more than a finger bone to convince me there was an entire population out there. Otherwise, yeah, it's an owl pellet, or a relic that was carried around, or there was just one lost guy there, or it's not human, etc.

Question …

Is an inch suddenly 3.3 cm these days?

That would explain scale creep with figures today. Must be Global Warming that is warping one side of our rulers then.

Dan

Yes, an inch is now 3.3 cm. That's the accelerating expansion of the universe, caused by global warming! Or eclipses. Or vaccines. Something. Dark energy.

The point is, *if* this is a homo sapiens finger bone and it's really 90k years old, and I am willing to trust them on that, then what we know is one finger got out there. Do you really want to re-write human migration?

There were other people out that way, neanderthals at least. So they had a homo sapiens slave, spouse, mascot, something. Or they just had the hand or finger, a war tropny, a talisman, whatever.

Or one guy was really, really lost.

"Or one guy was really, really lost."

He could have been that world's Columbus then! :)

Dan

Ha-Ha….

Amicalement
Armand

Was it a middle finger shooting us all "the Bird"?

"AGAIN with the finger?…" (Neil Simon: "The Sunshine Boys")

And that's when the giant prehistoric bird flew down, bit off the finger, and the flew away to Arabia! :)

I think the key is finding that 9-fingered man. Maybe he was the first Sinbad!

Dan