Are you aware that the earliest date for the Aurignacean (that wonderful
Upper Paleolithic technology you mention so often) is from Spain, which is
the very last place Modern humans, invading from the east, got to. It would
appear that on current evidence that Neanderthal was the inventor of the
Upper Paleolithic explosion. This accounts very nicely for the fact that
NOWHERE in the Middle East, where those modern men were supposed to come
from bringing their advanced technology, NOWHERE is Aurignacian to be found
prior to 30,000 years ago!!!!!
There are NO demonstrably modern human remains associated with the earliest
Aurignacian and in general there are no human remains at all. But those
that have been found with the earliest phase of the creative explosion are
Neanderthal. Even in the East, where the invaders were supposed to have come
from, at Vindija Cave in Croatia, parts of a Neanderthal body was found
with the earliest Upper Paleolithic. NEANDERTHAL, NOT ANATOMICALLY MODERN
HUMAN!
"Suddenly a peripheral region of Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, never before
at the center of the debate on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition or
on Neandertal-Cro-Magnon replacement, was catapulted into the limelight with
radiometric determinations associated with Upper Paleolithic materials as old
or older than the most ancient ones then known from central and eastern
Europe. These dates can be interpreted to call into question the traditional
ex oriente lux 'invasionist' hypothesis to explain the 'abrupt' appearance of
Upper Paleolithic technologies and lifeways (and, by assumed extension,
anatomically modern humans) from the Near East and southeast Europe to western
Europe."~Lawrence Guy Straus, "The Iberian Situation between 40,000 and 30,000
B.P. in Light of European Models of Migration and Convergence," in G. A. Clark
and C. M. Willermet, Conceptual Issues in Modern Hman Origins Research, (New
York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1997), pp. 235-252, p. 235
"There is now meticulously published evidence for the association of
Neandertal-like human remains with both Mousterian and classic Aurignacian-
like assemblages (the latter including multiple bone points and an engraved
bone in a level recently AMS dated to 33,000 B.P.) in Vindija Cave,
Croatia."~Lawrence Guy Straus, "The Iberian Situation between 40,000 and
30,000 B.P. in Light of European Models of Migration and Convergence," in G.
A. Clark and C. M. Willermet, Conceptual Issues in Modern Hman Origins
Research, (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1997), pp. 235-252, p. 237
While your invading modern humans may have invented the Upper Paleolithic
art and all, but they did a great job of hiding that fact! It would appear
that they gave the credit to the Neanderthals by burying Neanderthal bodies
with the Aurignacian.
>Good to have you back, though. It was a bit quiet around here. And thanks
>for being up front about the "flute."
When things go against you, the only real option is to come clean.
Everyone else knows what the score is and to deny it is merely to hide one's
head in the sand. Too often Christians do exactly that, hide our heads in
the sand hoping that the bad news will go away.
You are a credit to all Texans,
>though did you read what Paul Begala said about Dick Armey [who said
>Clinton should resign]? He said, "Well, as we like to say in Texas, 'When
>goofy ideas go for $40 a barrel, I want drilling rights on Dick Armey's
>head.'"
Armey is my congressman, and I am proud someone finally spoke up for
morality. Are you implying that Begala is a TEXAN? OH NO!!!!! Tell me it
isn't true.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm