Glenn Morton wrote:
>It is not entirely arbitrary. Whatever activity you choose to represent the
>existence of the image, be it art, murder, burial, religion etc, all these
>activities have a time of first appearance in the fossil record. Thus if we
>say that art is a characteristic of the image then the earliest art is
>either the Golan venus figurine from 300,000 years ago, the Olduvai
>phonolite pebble of 1.6 myr or the Makapansgat pebble of 3 million years
>ago.
>If we say altars are a requirement, then the oldest altar-looking discovery
>is at Bilzingsleben Germany from 400,000 years ago.
>If we say burial or ritual postmortem treatment of a body it is 1.4 myr ago
>at Sterkfontein, S. A.
>
>It isn't a case of pick a value, any value, out of the air.
Okay, it's a case of pick an activity, any activity, out of the air. Then see
when that arbitrary activity first appeared, changing the date every time
there
is a new discovery with an earlier date.
Now I get it :>).
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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