Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 1991081" data-attributes="member: 3921">Because nobody has been looking for it. It's the same problem with the whole "out of Africa" theory. The reason we are finding lots of early proto-human races in Africa (A. Afarensis, A. Africanus, etc.) is because research into that period is almost exclusively done in Africa, specifically, in the Great Rift and in South Africa. Why? Because the fossil deposits of that period are both easy to access and relatively undisturbed. Elsewhere, you would either have to dig down through hundreds of feet of sediment in random areas, or, if the proper strata are on the surface and easy to get at, they were long ago cleared away or otherwise destroyed through inhabitation.I'm not saying the out of Africa theory is wrong, mind you. There's other good evidence to back it up so far, ranging from the various work with mitochondrial DNA to the fact that the greatest diversity among humans is found among the peoples of Africa. But saying that modern humans came out of Africa just because "that's where we happen to find their remains" is like saying the highest form of life on Earth is the Penguin, because the only place you happened to effectively sample was Antarctica!The same goes for early habitation in the Americas. We aren't finding evidence quite possibly because almost no one is looking for it! And the little that is found by accident is regarded as an aberration or a misinterpretation of the data...The truth is, humanity is far, far older than any of our current civilizations are willing to admit (Hell, our main "civilization" still thinks we were created in a  garden in 4004 BC). "Civilization" is also far, far older. It doesn't take much to wipe out all remnants of even a "modern" civilization... there are whole modern cities that existed in Europe before WWI and WWII that even an archaeologist would have a hard time finding today! And wait another 10,000 years or so, and there won't even be *any* remnants left of the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China... the largest and greatest edifices ever built by man in modern written history. Remember, many of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations were thought legendary until the smallest remnants of them were actually found... as was the case with Troy."Modern" humans have been around for at least 200,000 years, if not far longer, and "genus Homo" (differentiated from Australopithecus primarily because they are found in areas where tools happen to be found), was around at least 2.5 to 4 million years ago...We are a far older people than most can ever even imagine...</blockquote>

Verification