Human etchings half a million years old?
The uncertainty of science: Did an ancestor of humanity etch zig-zags on a shell half a million years ago?
This story is a fascinating illustration of the difficulties of pinning down facts in the field of science. The researchers do an impeccable job of checking all possibilities, and finish by cheerfully admitting that their conclusions could be wrong. If right, however, the discovery is significant, as it tells us that 500,000 years ago an ancestor of the human race was capable of drawing an abstract design on the surface of a shell.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The uncertainty of science: Did an ancestor of humanity etch zig-zags on a shell half a million years ago?
This story is a fascinating illustration of the difficulties of pinning down facts in the field of science. The researchers do an impeccable job of checking all possibilities, and finish by cheerfully admitting that their conclusions could be wrong. If right, however, the discovery is significant, as it tells us that 500,000 years ago an ancestor of the human race was capable of drawing an abstract design on the surface of a shell.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Two more examples of how the history of man has to be further studied to be properly understood:
Globeki Tepi
http://youtu.be/eHG9URGDt6s
And the Indian city of Dwarka
http://youtu.be/nQZFS9Hij0M
Both established to be built aprox. 11.5 to 12 thousand years old. Globeki Tepi is an elaborate stone construction related to worship possibly representing the symbolic disconnecting / transition from hunter gatherer groups to agriculturally based societies / civilizations. Much older than the pyramids which in themselves are fantastic achievements with the technology of the day (how old are the pyramids really?). Built and then over time totally buried by hand, and the City of Dwarka on the coast of India now under 200 feet of water. So old that when the real deal melting of the ice sheets was in the process of increasing sea level by 300 feet. Possibly the real basis for Atlantis.
Human beings, potential unlimited.
Just goes to show the invitation to “come up and see my etchings” is an older line than anyone thought!