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I think my moon sign is Geminii...it's been so long since I had my chart done, I am no longer sure...but, yes, I sometimes bore myself....at the same time I am grateful for the aspects of my chart that keep me "grounded"!!
I think my moon sign is Geminii...it's been so long since I had my chart done, I am no longer sure...but, yes, I sometimes bore myself....at the same time I am grateful for the aspects of my chart that keep me "grounded"!!
Gemini Cancer Cusps are more prone to manipulating people. Gemini Cancer women can obtain loans and financial help from the opposite sex like getting fluoride from a dentist. Any other questions on Gemini Cancer cusps?
I'm Gemini Cancer Cusp. All the way.
Missing link in human evolution found in Africa
Thursday, 12 June 2003
Skulls of Homo sapiens id?ltu discovered in Ethiopia - the oldest humans known (Pic: Nature)
The oldest human fossils have been discovered in Ethiopia, a find that also reveals evidence of mortuary rituals and spiritual beliefs, an international team has announced.
Two of the three 160,000-year-old Homo sapien skulls - two adults and a child - feature tool marks that suggest they were cut and polished when freshly dead, the scientists report in today's issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers said it is impossible to determine whether the flesh or brains of the deceased were consumed as part of a cannibalistic ritual.
All the bones were found within 200 m of each other in an eroded riverbank about 230 km northeast of Addis Ababa, but showed no signs of having been intentionally buried. The finds included stone tools and other skull pieces and isolated teeth from seven other individuals all of the same species, but no other body parts.
One adult skull has parallel incisions around its perimeter of the skull - superficial cuts made by a stone tool drawn repeatedly across its surface - that are unlike those made by defleshing with stone tools.
The child's skull has cutmarks made by a very sharp stone flake and found deep markings in nooks and crannies of the skull's base. The rear part of its base was broken away, and the broken edges had been polished when the bone was still fresh. Its sides show a deep polish that may have formed from repeated handling of the skull after it was defleshed, the researchers suggest.
They note that anthropologists have found similar bone modifications in societies where the skulls of ancestors are preserved and worshipped. They suggest that the marks are evidence of an organised and prolonged mortuary ritual. A 600,000-year-old skull found earlier in the same region displays cutmarks associated with tissue removal, but no evidence of polishing.
The Herto fossils are so similar to modern human skulls that the scientists have classified them in their own subspecies,Homo sapiens id?ltu (id?ltu means 'elder' in the local Afar language of Ethiopia). Fully modern humans are classed as Homo sapiens sapiens.
The male cranium is long and rugged, with heavily worn upper teeth, and has a brain capacity of about 1,450 cubic cm - slightly above the modern human average of between 1,350 and 1,400 cubic cm.
"These well-dated and anatomically diagnostic Herto fossils are unmistakably non-Neanderthal," said Professor F. Clark Howell of the University of California at Berkeley, a co-author of the report.
"They show that near-humans had evolved in Africa long before the European Neanderthals disappeared. They thereby demonstrate conclusively that there was never a 'Neanderthal' stage in human evolution," he said.
Geologists and palaeontologists have established that the Herto people lived near the shore of a shallow freshwater lake with abundant catfish, crocodiles and hippopotamuses at a time when much of Europe was buried in ice during a major glaciation.
A hippopotamus skull with a deep chop mark made by a stone tool was found in the same layer of sediments. "The associated fossil bones show clearly that the Herto people had a taste for hippos, but we can't tell whether they were killing them or scavenging them," said Dr Yonas Beyene, an archaeologist at Ethiopia's Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
"The new finds show that this area of Africa was inhabited by a series of human ancestors from Ardipithecus at 6 million years ago, all the way through to the Herto people at 160,000 years ago," said Professor Tim White, also at the University of California at Berkeley. "This succession is unparalleled by any other research area in the world."
The find also strengthens the theory that
Thursday, 12 June 2003
Skulls of Homo sapiens id?ltu discovered in Ethiopia - the oldest humans known (Pic: Nature)
The oldest human fossils have been discovered in Ethiopia, a find that also reveals evidence of mortuary rituals and spiritual beliefs, an international team has announced.
Two of the three 160,000-year-old Homo sapien skulls - two adults and a child - feature tool marks that suggest they were cut and polished when freshly dead, the scientists report in today's issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers said it is impossible to determine whether the flesh or brains of the deceased were consumed as part of a cannibalistic ritual.
All the bones were found within 200 m of each other in an eroded riverbank about 230 km northeast of Addis Ababa, but showed no signs of having been intentionally buried. The finds included stone tools and other skull pieces and isolated teeth from seven other individuals all of the same species, but no other body parts.
One adult skull has parallel incisions around its perimeter of the skull - superficial cuts made by a stone tool drawn repeatedly across its surface - that are unlike those made by defleshing with stone tools.
The child's skull has cutmarks made by a very sharp stone flake and found deep markings in nooks and crannies of the skull's base. The rear part of its base was broken away, and the broken edges had been polished when the bone was still fresh. Its sides show a deep polish that may have formed from repeated handling of the skull after it was defleshed, the researchers suggest.
They note that anthropologists have found similar bone modifications in societies where the skulls of ancestors are preserved and worshipped. They suggest that the marks are evidence of an organised and prolonged mortuary ritual. A 600,000-year-old skull found earlier in the same region displays cutmarks associated with tissue removal, but no evidence of polishing.
The Herto fossils are so similar to modern human skulls that the scientists have classified them in their own subspecies,Homo sapiens id?ltu (id?ltu means 'elder' in the local Afar language of Ethiopia). Fully modern humans are classed as Homo sapiens sapiens.
The male cranium is long and rugged, with heavily worn upper teeth, and has a brain capacity of about 1,450 cubic cm - slightly above the modern human average of between 1,350 and 1,400 cubic cm.
"These well-dated and anatomically diagnostic Herto fossils are unmistakably non-Neanderthal," said Professor F. Clark Howell of the University of California at Berkeley, a co-author of the report.
"They show that near-humans had evolved in Africa long before the European Neanderthals disappeared. They thereby demonstrate conclusively that there was never a 'Neanderthal' stage in human evolution," he said.
Geologists and palaeontologists have established that the Herto people lived near the shore of a shallow freshwater lake with abundant catfish, crocodiles and hippopotamuses at a time when much of Europe was buried in ice during a major glaciation.
A hippopotamus skull with a deep chop mark made by a stone tool was found in the same layer of sediments. "The associated fossil bones show clearly that the Herto people had a taste for hippos, but we can't tell whether they were killing them or scavenging them," said Dr Yonas Beyene, an archaeologist at Ethiopia's Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
"The new finds show that this area of Africa was inhabited by a series of human ancestors from Ardipithecus at 6 million years ago, all the way through to the Herto people at 160,000 years ago," said Professor Tim White, also at the University of California at Berkeley. "This succession is unparalleled by any other research area in the world."
The find also strengthens the theory that
hello everyone! had a nice weekend?
back to the matter at hand. reading about your views and experiences in that field i can relate to quite a few things(shoot me for that last sentence, sounds so pretentious, lol). one should always go with his/her heart, but be also sensible and considerate about it. if you need a certain/special connection(mental, emotional, intellectual etc.) with someone to want sex with them, then this is exactly what you should be looking for. sleeping around would be so wrong were you like that. on the other hand, in my opinion a high number of sex partners would be only wrong if:
1. you have an irresponsible approach: don't care for protection etc.
2. you have such a low self esteem and the only way for you to boost it up is by getting everyone to sleep with you(that would be kind of sad, though
).
3. your motivation is questionable: you do it to buy yourself into a certain society or fcuk yourself up the career ladder or sleep around not because you have a strong sex drive but because you think that everyone else is doing it, it's fashionable etc. and therefore you should be acting the same way.
4. (your reason goes here...)
if, however, you do have a strong sex drive i don't see why you shouldn't have (countless???) affairs in the sensible, responsible, considerate way i was talking about. as long as you respect yourself and your partners...
i'm more on the low numbers end. i can think of only four women i've slept with. and another one i almost slept with. it was a one night stand and so funny. just about everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong and we couldn't stop rolling on the floor laughing. even though we didn?t get to perform the actual "act of sexual intercourse"(LOL) we had a great time! plus, you'd be surprised what magic you can do only using your hands, lips and tongue...
erm, like telling really funny jokes 
back to the matter at hand. reading about your views and experiences in that field i can relate to quite a few things(shoot me for that last sentence, sounds so pretentious, lol). one should always go with his/her heart, but be also sensible and considerate about it. if you need a certain/special connection(mental, emotional, intellectual etc.) with someone to want sex with them, then this is exactly what you should be looking for. sleeping around would be so wrong were you like that. on the other hand, in my opinion a high number of sex partners would be only wrong if:
1. you have an irresponsible approach: don't care for protection etc.
2. you have such a low self esteem and the only way for you to boost it up is by getting everyone to sleep with you(that would be kind of sad, though
).3. your motivation is questionable: you do it to buy yourself into a certain society or fcuk yourself up the career ladder or sleep around not because you have a strong sex drive but because you think that everyone else is doing it, it's fashionable etc. and therefore you should be acting the same way.
4. (your reason goes here...)
if, however, you do have a strong sex drive i don't see why you shouldn't have (countless???) affairs in the sensible, responsible, considerate way i was talking about. as long as you respect yourself and your partners...
i'm more on the low numbers end. i can think of only four women i've slept with. and another one i almost slept with. it was a one night stand and so funny. just about everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong and we couldn't stop rolling on the floor laughing. even though we didn?t get to perform the actual "act of sexual intercourse"(LOL) we had a great time! plus, you'd be surprised what magic you can do only using your hands, lips and tongue...
erm, like telling really funny jokes jut checked that out, lmao! i'm prone to that, too, though. i guess it was a car with automatic gears. in europe this is quite unusual and i feel a bit uncomfortable driving that kind of cars because i'm not used to my car just going off on it's own as soon as you get your foot off the break pedal. in cars with a gear stick you actually have to push the gas pedal for the car to start moving.
"Yeah,its like every scorp aien't a serial killer,those bodies in my backyard seriously aien't from me putting them there"
of course not, tia. it was those aliens
of course not, tia. it was those aliens
"Guess you could say im paranoid in that way but yeah better than the risks when you already don't have much to work with lol."
no, not paranoid. only completely nuts! LOL
seriously, i would do the same thing if i wasn't that lazy... being as careful with your money as you are makes sense, i'm really only too lazy to bother, which isn't exactly clever. i'm working on it, though...
"i hate money. it's stupid."
i guess it is stupid. never heard of money that had brain cells. would be a worth while experiment though: creating intelligent money lol
"can you get fingerprints from your locker...It's the first steps towards payback !!!"
good point, Holmes!
no, not paranoid. only completely nuts! LOL
seriously, i would do the same thing if i wasn't that lazy... being as careful with your money as you are makes sense, i'm really only too lazy to bother, which isn't exactly clever. i'm working on it, though...
"i hate money. it's stupid."
i guess it is stupid. never heard of money that had brain cells. would be a worth while experiment though: creating intelligent money lol
"can you get fingerprints from your locker...It's the first steps towards payback !!!"
good point, Holmes!
sex for sex sake is the only way
love it!
love it!
thank you mistress Tia i just dont want boil this into a religious debate.