Dawn of Man

Or

Homo Sapiens

Neanderthal Man  =  Homo Sapiens?

According to archeological records, Homo sapiens (our ancestors / modern man) first appeared sometime between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago; debate has raged over whether or not there was a single African origin or were there other hominids such as Homo erectus and or Neanderthals who made a noteworthy contribution to the evolution of modern humans by interbreeding. Regardless, modern man seemingly appeared out of no-where.

An alternative to random interbreeding proposed by various religious scholars and scientists alike is ‘intervention’ by someone or something other than individual earthlings that were traipsing around during that particular era.

Three fossil skulls from Ethiopia (found in 2003) have been revealed as the oldest human remains yet discovered, therefore supporting the theory that we all originated in Africa.  These skulls have rather precise dates thanks to the remains of volcanic rocks found within each fossil. When rocks cool (in this case, volcanic rock), they begin to collect what is called argon gas from the decay of a potassium isotope that is within the rock. By analyzing this gas, the age of the rock can be determined; in this particular case some where between 154,000 to 160,000 years have passed since the volcanic rock somehow found its way inside the 3 skulls.  Common sense, dictates that the sculls were older than the rock, but how much older is unknown.

Although this relatively recent Ethiopian find offers support for the all modern humans are “Out of Africa” argument, there are still some haunting questions that need to be answered.

The 3 skulls do look almost human, but not quite, they retain some slight primitive features; so much so that the on-site research team gave them their own subspecies … Homo sapiens idàltu. The skulls are apparently from two adult males and a child, but in addition to the ‘primitive’ features the sculls are rather large by human standards suggesting the adults were very imposing figures.

On the other hand, those in favor of the second type of human origin speculation called the “Multi-regional” theory, which basically says that we humans sprang up in several different regions all at about the same time; do not think their argument is lost.  Such proponents think that given time more skeletal remains will be found in other regions of the world.

From my view point the question remains; “where did we come from”, the answer may to the question regarding the first ‘modern humans’ may best be addressed by looking more closely into the legends offered up by the Dogon Tribe of Africa for example, although these legends place contact with the “Nommos” beings who were allegedly from the Sirius star system as being only 5,000 years ago, I would venture to guess, if in fact such events occurred, that 50,000 or even 500,000 years ago is more apt to be the case.

Or consider the legends of the “Shining Ones” that have been described by several ancient cultures such as the ancient Mayans of the Americas.  These legends say they were among the Mayan people some 500,000 years ago.

In short, if modern humans appeared, say 300,000 years ago, and the ‘Shining Ones’ or perhaps the ‘Nommos’ were hanging out on Earth around 500,000 years ago, they would have had plenty of time to do a little cross breeding or gene splicing them selves.  Perhaps they lift behind more than the knowledge required to develop a successful civilization … May-be even what is today called man-kind.

Sources …

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3814-dawn-of-human-race-uncovered.html    

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