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Gunfreak Supporting Member of TMP12 Sep 2018 12:44 p.m. PST

Norwegian archeologists from University of Bergen has found 73 000 year old markings in South Africa. Oldest known from modern humans.

Andrew Walters12 Sep 2018 4:39 p.m. PST

National Geographic, among others, seems to be asking questions…

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I'm always concerned when a single sample like this is going to drastically increase the range of data points. If we're going to re-write that much we need solid footing. This is essentially twice as old as anything else, and it's single item.

Maybe there was one Einstein in the bunch, she had a good day, she made some things, and then nothing else happened for 30,000 years. So mankind didn't start drawing 73,000 years ago, one individual way out on the right end of the bell curve did a thing. On the other hand, if it's a one off the odds that we would find it are infinitesimal, and it doesn't seem like a first effort.

I greatly look forward to more discoveries.

Gunfreak Supporting Member of TMP13 Sep 2018 2:27 a.m. PST

While I agree with that,
They do have "writing" from over 500k years ago by Homo Erectus on Java, so I assume it wasn't very uncommon.
I did react to the Norwegian article about the 73k "writing" that said the writing done on the clams shell 500k years ago was done by humans "older and far simpler ancestor"

I don't agree that homo erectus was "far simpler" I think there was a tiny tiny difference between us, yes tiny differences can have huge effects, but I don't think "far simpler" is a correct description of homo erectus.

Bowman13 Sep 2018 5:41 a.m. PST

I agree with Andrew. More work needs to be done. I'm not even sure that this couldn't be the result of a a non-human or even a natural process.

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