Comments on: Guy Gugliotta’s Review of Modern Human Evolution in the Smithsonian http://anthropology.net/2008/07/01/guy-gugliottas-review-of-modern-human-evolution-in-the-smithsonian/ Beyond bones & stones Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: TerryT http://anthropology.net/2008/07/01/guy-gugliottas-review-of-modern-human-evolution-in-the-smithsonian/#comment-11562 TerryT Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:32:14 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=950#comment-11562 Interesting. From the article: "But curiously, the early down under colonists apparently did not make sophisticated tools, relying instead on simple Neanderthal-style flaked stones and scrapers". Now why would that be? Doesn't it indicate some sort of disconnect between east and west? "To the south, the fossil and archaeological record is clearer and shows that modern humans reached Australia and Papua New Guinea—then part of the same landmass—at least 45,000 years ago, and maybe much earlier". "They ... left scant evidence that they hunted large marsupial mammals in their new homeland". I have a scrapbook in which I have accumulated many interesting newspaper articles over the years. One from the local paper dated August 1st 2001 relates to comments by Mike Smith concerning an exhibition at the Australia National Museum of Australian megafauna and their extinction . Guess what date he gives for the extinction? That's correct: 46,000 years ago. Not evidence? Interesting. From the article: “But curiously, the early down under colonists apparently did not make sophisticated tools, relying instead on simple Neanderthal-style flaked stones and scrapers”. Now why would that be? Doesn’t it indicate some sort of disconnect between east and west?

“To the south, the fossil and archaeological record is clearer and shows that modern humans reached Australia and Papua New Guinea—then part of the same landmass—at least 45,000 years ago, and maybe much earlier”. “They … left scant evidence that they hunted large marsupial mammals in their new homeland”.

I have a scrapbook in which I have accumulated many interesting newspaper articles over the years. One from the local paper dated August 1st 2001 relates to comments by Mike Smith concerning an exhibition at the Australia National Museum of Australian megafauna and their extinction . Guess what date he gives for the extinction? That’s correct: 46,000 years ago. Not evidence?

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