[Stones] A three-year-old from 3.3m years ago / circa 6.5K bp stone circle

[Ric]

"Nabta Playa [Nubia / southern Egypt] is currently the oldest known archaeoastronomy site in the world, older than Stonehenge by at least 1000 years". 
   
  http://www.planetquest.org/learn/nabta.html
   
  http://www.planetquest.org/learn/nabtamap.html
   
  http://www.comp-archaeology.org/WendorfSAA98.html

littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:
          Today's Guardian reports on the discovery of the bones of a three-year-old from 3.3m years ago.
   
  "Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia have unearthed the fragile bones of a baby ape-girl who lived 3.3m years ago, the earliest child ancestor discovered so far.
   
  The fossilised remains reveal a critical moment in human evolution that saw our earliest relatives shaking off the legacy of ape ancestors to take their first tentative steps along a path that ultimately led to modern humans.
  The remarkably complete skeleton's lower half is almost perfectly adapted to walking upright, while the upper body is more primitive, with gorilla-like shoulderblades and curved chimpanzee-like fingers suited to clinging and climbing trees.   The intact skull and nearly full set of teeth show the large, pointy canines that distinguish apes from early humans have disappeared, leaving only substantial chewing teeth."*
   
  * More at - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1877236,00.html

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