It’s Polish psych blues-rock. WFMU’s blog has a profile and some more videos up of them.
(Hey, don’t mind a little Hendrixian “Hey Joe” riff lift.)
Archive for August 19th, 2011
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
tools in Crete dated to 130,000 years ago
Friday, August 19th, 2011This “human precursors went to sea” piece seems odd. Tools were found resembling hominin tools in Africa 700,000 years ago in Crete. Crete was geographically isolate by the Mediterranean. The dating of the tools winds up placing them at 130,000 years ago, which they decide is 100,000 years older than humans used craft to cross open water.
These guys are supposed to be Homo erectus. It seems like Homo floresiensis only became a species because some Homo erectus sailed to an island and became geographically isolate. The earliest H. floresiensis bone is dated 74,000 years old and they didn’t become that size overnight. Homo erectus was definitely floating around open waters early than 30,000 years ago, (especially since they were supposed extinct by that time anyway.)
Let’s just say that these Cretans were Homo heidelbergensis though. All that’s been found at this site are a bunch of older styled tools. No bones. I don’t know when they were supposed to have been supplanted by the Neanderthals completely, but if they were isolated like H. floresiensis was, they could have survived into more recent times.
foot bone found at Denisova site
Friday, August 19th, 2011What might be a Denisovan foot bone has been excavated from the same layer of the cave that the Denisovan finger bone was found. Both are roughly 40,000 years old, but the problem with declaring it definitely a Denisovan bone already is that Neanderthals were in that area at the same time and only two Denisovan bones have been identified to date. The New Scientist article notes that the team’s enthusiasm hints that again they have been able to extract DNA from the bone and it’s not Homo sapiens or Neanderthal.