Comments on: The Age of Omo I and Omo II from the Kibish Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/ Beyond bones & stones Wed, 30 May 2012 15:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-12022 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:06:03 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-12022 “John Feagle returned to the Omo Valley and re-dated mineral crystals from volcanic tuffs where Omo I and II came from. Why? One reason is that the 160,000 year old Homo sapiens idaltu crania (BOU-VP-16/1, BOU-VP-16/2 and BOU-VP-16/5) from Herto, Ethiopia dethroned their claim to the oldest known Homo sapiens specimens.” I merely begged to differ, but, there are things a “troll” may not bring up on a site like this, or horrible things might happen! So, what can I do but respect that? Death is better’n to be a “Troll”!

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11880 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:40:44 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11880 Well, I never looked at it that way, but I certainly do not want to be a troll, so I will stop talking about Homo Antecessor

]]> By: Kambiz http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11872 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:28:25 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11872 Hal,

Based off of your commentary in this thread, you are an Internet Troll. You may think that Homo antecessor is ‘on-topic.’ But, this species was not a part of the original discussion. You felt the need to interject your opinions in an inflammatory manner and drive the discussion off the topic at hand, and that is the age of the Omo fossils.

Kambiz

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11868 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:45:17 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11868 Why, thank you alex, but of course the idea of a scientific geek troll is hard to picture – but perhaps he meant to say something else, or maybe I don’t know exactly what a “troll” is?

]]> By: Alex Bjarnason (TheMonkeyMan) http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11866 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:53:31 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11866 I don’t know whose interests you are serving Hal, but I do know you are talking utter bollocks.

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11865 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:59:19 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11865 why in the world would I be a troll on a subject like anthropology? Whose interests could I possibly be serving? And why?

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11864 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:57:01 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11864 excuse me, I should have said that subjects most closely resembling those heavy-faced hominids have been around for four million years or so.

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11863 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:53:54 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11863 yeah! and then we evolved back into people who look like us again – yeah, sure, I believe you.., but really, how likely is THAT?

]]> By: Kambiz http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11862 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:52:18 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11862 Hal,

You’ve made it clear that you’re a troll, and looking to pick a fight — not have a discussion. I really don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Neandertals haven’t been around for 4 million years to be us.

Kambiz

]]> By: hal barton http://anthropology.net/2008/07/08/the-age-of-omo-i-and-omo-ii-from-the-kibish-formation-omo-valley-ethiopia/#comment-11861 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:48:57 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=979#comment-11861 Well, no answer is forthcoming from you, sadly: So, let me end this string by pointedly pointing out once again that Homo Antecessor is the only hominid to possess a completely human FACE! The only one EVER! Now, to explain this explosive fact away, the (now exceedingly rich) wardens of the million dollar bones nitpick on very slight deviations from the norm found on those million year old bones – deviations that are also fairly commonly found in all modern human population even today [come on! Homo Antecessor is a million years old! Dahhh! What's you expect?] Here is what they are saying to explain the million years which disproved the “out of Africa theory” – once we humans, or some people who looked exactly like us (the only ones) lived in Europe, and then we changed into a heavy faced sub-human with the animal strength of ten anatomically modern humans – and many, many other very important anatomical differences that make it clear that NEANDERTHALS HAVE NOT BEEN US FOR AT LEAST FOUR MILLION YEARS! It is only wishful thinking and magic that makes you think that WE are the ancestors of the damned Neanderthals!

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