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© 2009 International Institute of Anthropology
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 10-03-09
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 10-03-09
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Criteria: 1. Sufficient and correct theory. 2. Sufficient and correct record base. 3. Sufficient and correct interpretation arguments.
October 2, 12:13 AM
The earliest People in the Balkans
(For the moment like that)
We, the scholars, live for moments like that.
Everybody can imagine how responsible is to be a student at the Argosy University, Salt Lake City, and especially
when one has to evaluate the historiography of Balkan Prehistory which still has been developing under the influence
of the heavy chains of the totalitarian heritage.
So, I had to introduce Balkan prehistory to my colleagues and had to write about Early Paleolithic. This is what I
wrote:
"Paleolithic and Mesolithic are the two prehistoric spirals that include the development of the earliest population of
the Balkans who were hunter-gatherers. There is some evidence that makes us believe that the earliest population
dates from abt 1,5 millennium cal BCE. It is documented at the Kozarnika cave (online) and is one of the earliest
population in Eurasia. The fact that we started to find as early data as from Africa may show that out of Africa model
for emerging of the human species is a closed model that may need to be updated and actualized as a non-linear
emergence of the human species in the second millennium cal BCE. There are some evolutionary models that indicate
that the human brain may have begun to evolve as early as 5th millennium cal BCE. Then, we may need to believe
that in the 2nd millennium cal BCE Eurasia had been already populated by human species as a result of a long
evolution process started much earlier than 2nd millennium cal BCE."
A few minutes I read online:
"Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found"
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who
lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before
the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent
State University.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and
humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way."
more ....
References
Kozarnika cave (online). Kozarnika cave. Wikipedia. Retrieved on October 1, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Kozarnika_cave.
Schmid, R. (2009). Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found. Retrieved on October 1, 2009 from http://news.
yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy.
Criteria: 1. Sufficient and correct theory. 2. Sufficient and correct record base. 3. Sufficient and correct interpretation arguments.
October 2, 12:13 AM
The earliest People in the Balkans
(For the moment like that)
We, the scholars, live for moments like that.
Everybody can imagine how responsible is to be a student at the Argosy University, Salt Lake City, and especially
when one has to evaluate the historiography of Balkan Prehistory which still has been developing under the influence
of the heavy chains of the totalitarian heritage.
So, I had to introduce Balkan prehistory to my colleagues and had to write about Early Paleolithic. This is what I
wrote:
"Paleolithic and Mesolithic are the two prehistoric spirals that include the development of the earliest population of
the Balkans who were hunter-gatherers. There is some evidence that makes us believe that the earliest population
dates from abt 1,5 millennium cal BCE. It is documented at the Kozarnika cave (online) and is one of the earliest
population in Eurasia. The fact that we started to find as early data as from Africa may show that out of Africa model
for emerging of the human species is a closed model that may need to be updated and actualized as a non-linear
emergence of the human species in the second millennium cal BCE. There are some evolutionary models that indicate
that the human brain may have begun to evolve as early as 5th millennium cal BCE. Then, we may need to believe
that in the 2nd millennium cal BCE Eurasia had been already populated by human species as a result of a long
evolution process started much earlier than 2nd millennium cal BCE."
A few minutes I read online:
"Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found"
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who
lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before
the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent
State University.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and
humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way."
more ....
References
Kozarnika cave (online). Kozarnika cave. Wikipedia. Retrieved on October 1, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Kozarnika_cave.
Schmid, R. (2009). Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found. Retrieved on October 1, 2009 from http://news.
yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy.