tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post7577032172492707568..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Continuity of microblade technology in India since 45kaDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-17774397617076484382013-07-10T01:41:05.738+03:002013-07-10T01:41:05.738+03:00Speaking of aboriginies, look at this:
http://dis...Speaking of aboriginies, look at this:<br /><br />http://discovermagazine.com/2002/aug/featafrica#.UcW3NxbRu7c<br /><br />Guy sequences old large skulled skeletons that according to out of africa have no explanation at all. Finds they have previously unknown mtDNA. Results discarded out of hand with no further investigation.<br /><br />Now you can't just make up results for something like that. So if they are not convincing it should be easy to counter them, but simply ignoring them is criminal.Fiend of 9 worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712083368615685458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-52654917668660278672013-07-09T07:09:48.941+03:002013-07-09T07:09:48.941+03:00"It also shows that modern humans in Indian S..."It also shows that modern humans in Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia were associated with differing technologies and this calls into question the 'southern dispersal' route of modern humans from Africa through India to SE Asia and then to Australia". <br /><br />That has always been one of the problems with the theory. Australian Aborigines did not have any sort of micro-blade technique until as recently as 5-6000 years ago. And the Upper Paleolithic appears to have been introduced to Chian from the north, not via South Asia. The lack of any connection between SE Asian and S Asian technolgies argues strongly in favour of the hill country in the border region as being remarkably impassable, as does the very steep cline in the region between East and South Asian phenotypes. terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-32643024724148880032013-07-08T21:13:55.253+03:002013-07-08T21:13:55.253+03:00Even though the bulk of anthropological poking see...Even though the bulk of anthropological poking seems to be in africa the results in asia that do come out are always quite interesting. Like I said in some other post we should probably be looking for "modern" humans where the earliest cities and large populations were, which is along the same belt you point to.<br /><br />I think they are off about jungle and cold adaptation. By that time it was the brain and culture making the adapations and most people writing articles seem to forget there were NO deserts in most of the areas that are there now. Climate has changed many times and you can't look at what's there today to make a guess, and aside from present times deserts have been largely transient.<br /><br />Fiend of 9 worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712083368615685458noreply@blogger.com