Dikika Reasearch Project

[comanche]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/sc..._noble_wilford
I seen this article this morning and thought it to be very interesting.
Any one that might have noiticed my signature at the bottom of most of my post,,Quotes some of this research that has been going on for a while in Ethiopia....Most Notably by;Tim D. White from the University of California,Berkeley.The article below is from the National Geographic when "Lucy" was first dicovered.,,,Enjoy/Comanche
Dikika Baby - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine

[Mud Hawk]

Interesting read. I wonder (if they are in fact marks left by stone tools) what those tools would look like? Probably just an unmodified rock?

[comanche]

HA,HA thats funny Mud Hawk,,,No really,,I have considered the evidence of the scalping.
I have heard of accounts of Gorillas who through fits af rage have grabed thier victims by the scalpe then using thier nails,,, rip parts of the skull back,,,Like the article states they do not have enough information,,,Yet!
And of course Apes use tools(Rocks ,,sticks) To accomplish thier needs///comanche

[Mud Hawk]

Never thought about it that way. Yikes, that is some savage info right there.

Sileshi Semaw, a paleoanthropologist at Indiana University who was a discoverer of the oldest confirmed stone tools, from 2.6 million years ago, noted in an e-mail message from Ethiopia that researchers had often been misled by bone markings left by trampling animals and other natural causes. “I am not convinced of the new discovery,” he said.

That's not so suprising... He wants to defend his record.