archeology - world's oldest rock art might be in Australia

well they didn't come directly from africa, their journey would've taken thousands of years as they expanded/migrated across the southern coastline of asia...due to the Wallace Line boat is the only method by which they could've reached Oz, no one questions that even without definitive archeological proof...

 

Its cranial capacity relative to body size was far too small to be a Homo sapien. Its other traits such as hip structure and the position of foramen magnum also suggest it was an Australopithecine.

 

When trying to distinguish between the gracile and robust aboriginees, the main difference centers on a characteristic forehead flattening and much more profound diagonal receding as well as prognathism of the jaws in the robust types.

 

well australopithecine seems to be where it's headed but it's still too early to make that call...

 

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But it is a fairly extreme example and it does not have a high forehead

The history of discussion about these skulls, collectively called the "Kow Swamp skulls" is in itself spasmodic with discussions seeming to pause from 1980 - 2003

But DNA research has proven that "Mungo man" has no living relative

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/01/01/2813404.htm

The whole story gets more and more fascinating


But

 

Yeah, right. Retards should have their say too.

 

on to my list of permanently ignored you go, I can no longer be bothered dealing with infantile insults...

 

very interesting, the article was dated 2001 do you have anything more recent or more authoritative...

 

You were saying something? Even if I heard it I scrubbed it from my conscience before I could process it.

 

Been looking

I doubt we will get much from the "Kow Swamp" type skulls as they all seem fairly degraded. I think with the discovery of Homo Florensis there has been a huge game changer when it comes to the "out of Africa" hypothesis. Certainly Homo Erectus might have spread further than we thought - particularly in light of finding in Japan where that hut was discovered. The spread of homo erectus down into Java leaves them not that far from Austrian shores



We always thought that nothing crossed the "Wallace Line" but the distances are not that great



Oh! and look at where Flores is - right on the edge of that ruddy line!!

Curioser and curioser said the cat

 

No idea but i think we don't even know how humans crossed the Bering or the 100(?) miles of sea from Java to Australia .
We are talking about 2m years or more ago , of course there are other parameters to take into account like the possibility of other homo specimens that lived in and around Asia that we have yet to find , Flores man can be an evolutionary step for one of them.
Erectus

Mmmm NO , what i am saying is that the major characteristic of the HSS species is the round skull specially in the back , a couple of images i saw show that Talgai 's is elongated like HSN and HE .
High forehead and domed skull is a general characteristic of all the Homo genus, take for example Habilis and compare him with earlier small brain bipedals it is obvious that our evolutionary path follows the "extra space in the brain case" canon .

Their brains are not HSS , their bones are not HSS , i would be really interested to read a paper about their sexual dimorphism rate .