Living Fossils: Mollusca

BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME Pleistocene coalition news VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3 MAY-JUNE 2014 Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific a g e n d a s - Early humans far more intelligent than what mainstream science • P A G E 2 has portrayed ever since Darwin Sapient culture (cont.) • Early humans in the Americas hundreds of thousands of years ago Trevor McNaughton • Blinkered and naïve interpretations of the fossil record about to be P A G E 4 nationally forced on American children as “fact” Member news and other information • Objective, ahead of their time, and now vindicated Virginia Steen-McIntyre, historical researchers who were ridiculed by their own Kevin Callaghan , day’s mainstream science machine Michael Winkler • Science classrooms in the U.S. and other countries on P A G E 6 the verge of control by monopolistic organizations Kudos on recent PCN These are a few of the subjects those in the Pleistocene Coalition are not afraid to take Our readers by the horns. More and more researchers are beginning to realize that something is amiss in the modern science community which can only be reformed from without. P A G E 7 James Reid-Moir, FRS, 1879–1944 A second look at early sapient culture Kevin Lynch and Richard Dullum By Trevor McNaughton P A G E 1 0 The Flagstaff Stone Contentions over biological evidence somehow prove that the various evolution aside, how is it that sapience must have come out early humans Jeffrey Goodman Africa became the only pos- of Africa? (‘Lithics’ refers to found outside P A G E 1 3 sible center for the birth and humanly-worked stone). I of Africa who growth of human culture? would like to suggest that it reached a Mainstream explain- does not prove this and that it mature cul- ing things away Whether it is as multiple exits is more a matter of our inter- ture cultural or the more romantic notion Jarrod Barker pretation of the evidence that level a differ- of a single exit, few leads to this popu- ent picture P A G E 1 4 mainstream re- lar conclusion. seems to fall searchers seem Debunking evolu- into place. tionary propaganda, able to consider any Secondly, could The 1.8 mil- Prt 7: Mollusca other possibility there be a bias in lion-year old than that humanity the interpretation site of Dman- John Feliks matured to what we that might be isi in Geor- call the “sapient” skewing the re- P A G E 1 7 gia, for in- level within Africa. sults? Again, I stance ( Figs. Brain matters, Prt 3: (Sapient: having or Fig. 1. A 1.8 million- would suggest that 1 & 2 ), con- Intelligence showing sound wis- year old skull from there is indeed a tains a skull Vesna Tenodi dom or judgment). Dmanisi in Georgia— bias, one caused by indicating that part of a set of skulls the fact that we— a toothless P A G E 1 9 The question is how calling into question modern Homo partially dis- is it that Africa be- the naming of species sapiens —appear to Brain matters, Prt 4: came the only op- in anthropology. abled mem- Open-mindedness be the only humans tion mainstream ber of the remaining on the local com- Vesna Tenodi anthropology is planet. This bias makes us tend willing to consider? Asking munity was P A G E 2 0 to look at lithic evidence in such cared for. this simple question points to a way as to claim the more ad- Tales of a Fossil other questions that might vanced work as our own when In both Europe and western Collector, Prt 6 help us gain a different per- this may not always be the case. Asia Neanderthal evidence spective on the problem. John Feliks When you settle down and > Cont. on page 2 First, does the available lithic actually start to investigate VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3 P A G E 2 A second look at early sapient culture (cont.) suggesting a broader social of the nest of Africa actually ern Homo sapiens , etc., could and cultural interaction than depends so much on the Latin obviously produce viable traditionally taught is almost names they’ve been given or young from mixed matings— “In Europe daily reported. In Siberia rather on their degree of would be to regard the people and west- where Denisovans—an appar- maturity as a group. Also, present at these sites as races ent hybrid of Neanderthals along with survival ability are within a single species and ern Asia and modern Homo sapiens other less tangible factors not as separate species at all. Neander- (a.k.a. Homo sapiens sapiens ) that are seldom discussed These races would have been like chance and typical only of their day. environmental Sparks of genius would occur challenges . with or without hybridization. We also need to The typical Eurocentric rou- reassess artifacts tine is if advanced or altered we traditionally artifacts are found then a associate with site lacking human remains Homo sapiens is designated Homo sapiens . out of habit. Again, such artifacts may do To show that the no more than reflect the automatic assign- advances of the age and not ing of advanced the genetic makeup of their tools to Homo manufacturers. This sug- sapiens is habit gests the unsettling possibility one need only that there are actually “less” Fig. 2. The Paleolithic site of Dmanisi in the country of Georgia between Russia realize that this Homo sapiens sites than we in the north and Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the south. Here, the dis- has been done might like to imagine. I.e. we covery of a toothless and partially disabled individual suggests that 1,8 million even when no may have taken too many years ago communities well outside of Africa were caring for individuals with associated skele- liberties with the “history-is- special needs. Equally, the several different types and appearances of the skulls tal remains have written-by-the-victor” approach. from the site also suggest that all the different early human fossils previously called by different names were actually one species. Image: Public Domain. been found. So, there obviously At the other extreme, if more remains the pos- primitive lithic artifacts are thal evi- and a third as yet unidentified sibility that many of these found we typically conjecture dence sug- species—are also showing a advanced tools are not by habit that they must be- long to a less advanced spe- gesting a track where Neanderthal Homo sapiens artifacts. In blood reached modern Homo cies than Homo sapiens . broader places where there is only sapiens as it stands today. lithic material to identify a site social and Neither conjecture is auto- Yet, while it is commonly ac- we should not automatically matically true or untrue. What cultural cepted that the genus Homo jump to the conclusion that is true is that the lithic culture interaction left Africa in several forms— they are sapiens artifacts. found at any dig site is one [Ed. note: This is true also in re- divided into the likes of erectus , which was politically accepted than tradi- gards to painted cave sites where and contained and is perhaps tionally heidlebergensis, sapiens —there Homo sapiens is assumed even seems to be a wall built around though there is no physical evidence simply the technology that recognized the possibility that more than of the presence of Homo sapiens .] was feeding the population at is almost the last of those bloodlines could the time of its production. As daily re- survive, evolve further, and then The only scientific conclusion a modern analogy, the Ro- that can be asserted safely ported.“ prosper outside the cradle of mans used flint tools in Britain Africa. This is the “Bird’s nest in situations where arti- and Gaul but that obviously equation” that the nestling facts—but not human re- does not mean that the Ro- could not possibly survive mains—are found is that the mans were culturally inferior— having fallen out of the nest. artifacts were concurrent a conclusion one might incor- with the age in which they rectly reach if simply com- It seems a better approach were made. And the altera- paring their flints to those than simply accepting the tions and overlays were likely produced 40,000 years prior. Bird’s nest equation as a fact more political than sustaina- and then automatically assign- bly cultural. It cannot be As another modern-day ing all evidence of advanced assumed that they were analogy, leap forward a cou- tool-work to our own species limited by the Latinized spe- ple of thousand years from is for us to remain open to cies names we have arbitrar- the Romans in Gaul and con- examining all of the possibili- ily given to them—or indeed sider the first powered flight. ties. One of these possibilities even sub-species names. It didn’t happen only in one is whether the survival of the place or in places connected nestlings which have fallen out Perhaps even more correct— since Neanderthals and mod- > Cont. on page 3 PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3 P A G E 3 A second look at early sapient culture (cont.) by more than the desire to fly. who made them in anything and landscape challenges too At around the time the Wright more than known political bias. much of a single negative brothers took to the air, Pearce order. Once out of Africa the in New Zealand was in the air, The same holds true for every challenges were different, a man in Connecticut was in the artifact produced within a given multifaceted, and more in- air, and there were experiments area in prehistory.

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