Comments on: “10,000 BC” – New Film Due Out 2008 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/10000-bc-new-film-due-out-2008/ Beyond bones & stones Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: timaeolithic http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/10000-bc-new-film-due-out-2008/#comment-1808 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:52:56 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/10000-bc-new-film-due-out-2008/#comment-1808 Hi Tre – thanks for your comment – I know it’s only going to be a Hollywood conceit, but such is life; if someone got round to making a film that described what was really going on in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, that would be something far more interesting than any Hollywood fantasy, but I’m not sure it would sell fill as many cinema seats, unfortunately.

I think Ussher estimated we’ve only been around since 4004 BC, a pity he’s not around today to try and back that up.

Tim

]]> By: Tre http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/10000-bc-new-film-due-out-2008/#comment-1806 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:12:46 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/10000-bc-new-film-due-out-2008/#comment-1806 I dunno… it seems more like an advocate of the creationists timeline. Remember our old friend Ussher? He calculated the arrival of human beings on the planet to be about 10,000 years ago!

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