Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Article - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Chapter 26 Some people suggest that the impetus for culture was the sudden development of speech. But that idea doesn't hold much water either. If we were to look at some of the aboriginal societies of Australia and New Guinea, they are certainly Neandertal like in their stone tools. But they think and communicate in languages that are as rich as ours, and they construct myths, stories and cosmologies with these languages. They just don't seem to be much interested in technology. There is another very strange thing about this explosion of homo intellectualis technologicus: it seems to have sort of "lost its steam" around 12,000 years ago. Many people are excited about the pottery making of the Jomon. Even more startling is the fact that twenty-six thousand years ago the residents of Dolni Vestonice were firing ceramics in kilns. But you don't read that in archaeology textbooks. In the standard teachings, the emergence of creamics is linked to the functional use of pottery which supposedly did not appear until the agricultural revlolution in the Neolithic period some 12,000 years after the kilns were last used. Oh dear! Did we just stumble on something interesting? Didn't we just note that something happened to "cool" the steam of the cultural explosion of the Upper Paleolithic and that it happened about 12,000 years ago? And we noted that the Jomon culture "began" at about the same time. And here we note that the agricultural revolution occurred just two thousand years before that "loss of creative vigor." Could the two have some connection? Have we found a move on the gameboard of the Secret Games of the Gods?
In Bulgaria, a thousand miles east of Dolni Vestonice, there is a cave called Bacho Kiro. It is famous for containing the earliest known Aurignacian tool assemblages. They are 43,000 years old. One of the main things noted about Neandertal man was that he never seemed to go anywhere. He always made his tools out of what was locally available, and he never seemed to travel at all. What was made where it was made, stayed there. Nobody traded or shared among the neandertal groups. But it seems that right from the beginning, Cro-Magnon man was traveling and sharing and exchanging not only goods, but technology. If there was a better form of stone somewhere else, the word seemed to get around, and everybody had some of it. Distinctive flints from southern Poland are found at Dolni Vestonice, a hundred miles to the south. Slovakian radiolarite of red, yellow and olive is found a hundred miles to the east. Later in the Upper Paleolithic period, the famous "chocolate flint" of southern Poland is found over a radius of two hundred and fifty miles.[Shreeve, op. cit.] Naturally, these rocks didn't walk around on their own. Human legs carried them. And that leads us to our next little problem with Cro-Magnon man. You see, his legs were too long. One of the sacred laws of evolutionary biology is called "Allen's Rule." This rule posits that legs, arms, ears, and other body extremities should be shorter in mammals that live in cold climates, and longer in mammals of the same time who live where it is hot. This is because having short arms and legs conserves heat. This is supposed to explain why Eskimos and Laplanders have short legs. It also is supposed to explain why Bantu people are leaner, and the Maasai are extremely long and lean in their tropical open country. The only people who seem to be mocking Allen's rule are Cro-Magnon. They just refused to adapt. They all have much longer legs than they ought to. Of course, this is pounced upon as proof that they came from Africa. The only problem with this is that it is hard to imagine people from a warm climate migrating to a cold one by choice. And then, on top of that, to remain long-limbed for over a thousand generations? Keep in mind that, during that time, the thermometer kept going down and, at the glacial maximum, 18,000 years ago, it was like the North Pole in northern Europe! So how come they didn't adapt? By whatever means they arrived in Europe, we ought to take note of the fact that their presence there may be related to the fact that Europe and other nearby locations are literally blanketed with megaliths. Indeed, the megaliths came long after the appearance of Cro-Magnon man, but the connection ought not to be discarded without some consideration. We have still another problem here, and it has to do with dating. Analyzing mitochondrial DNA data to reconstruct the demographic prehistory of Homo Sapiens reveals statistical evidence of explosive growth around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. Is there a connection between this DNA evidence and the appearance of Cro-Magnon man? If so, it would mean that the DNA is dated to twice the age that archaeology confirms. Clearly something is wrong with the dating. From a morphological point of view as well as judging by their industry and art, these highly evolved men who coexisted with Neanderthal man represent a mutation so enormous and sudden as to be absurd in the context of evolutionary theory. What in the world are we going to do with this problem? I could exhaustively describe the endless books and papers that seek to explain it away; to account for it, to marginalize it, and even ignore it. But at the end of it all, the fundamental problem still remains: a new kind of man appeared on the planet, seemingly from nowhere, and he was smart, artistic, and however he got here, he landed in a lot of places simultaneously. Did I say "landed?" Yes, I did. Am I suggesting that Cro-Magnon man was an alien? Not exactly. We still have to consider the mitochondrial DNA of Eve. I also haven't forgotten that annoying problem of the Asian vs. African origins of the "first mother" that was so deftly dealt with by avoidance and non-answers. What do all of these factors, taken together, suggest? Well, any farmer can figure that one out: it suggests hybridization. But that would imply somebody doing the hybridizing. Further, we might wish to make note of the range of this culture that suddenly dropped in on Europe: From Spain (and a small region of North Africa) to the Urals. The Ural mountains are at the border of Central Asia.
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