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  • Reply to: The Giant Footprint of Pingyan: Giant Made or Man Made?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: tangatawhenua16

    natural formation in this case. The second photo is one hand carved.

  • Reply to: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First? Part 1   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Richard P

    There is a fantastic 57 part series on youtube by Sylvie Ivanowa detailing her research into ancient, pre-flood civilisations. There is archeological evidence from all over the world pointing clearly to advanced civilisations, particularly with megalithic architecture that we could not construct today. There is also evidence of advanced technology by way of machine tooling marks on stone - from Egypt to remote Russia.

  • Reply to: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First? Part 1   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Richard P

    How is it that people accuse Trump of being a warmonger when aside from one strike, he has done nothing warlike in his presidency?
    Yet - President Obama was the FIRST president to be at war for every single day of his two four year terms - so eight years of constant war - and - he won a nobel peace prize!
    How does Obama get away with it?

  • Reply to: The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Laurie Pennisi

    I argue that the Egyptians where Nubians. They were not white people as portrayed by the haught couture whites that think they are so artsy. The Egyptians were black BC

  • Reply to: The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: watcher517

    El Del: obviously you live in lalla land....whites like you are passive aggressive----whites have for years been trying to rewrite the history of Egypt. And this is a prime example as well as your attempt to marginalize the truth about racism playing a role in their finds. the director of antiquity even has gone so far as to whiten the faces on the Egyptian drawings under the guise of restoration. Whites act as if people of color, Blacks/Africans had no civilization/culture or contributed to this world when in fact we are the progenitors of civilization. I'll just take you comment as a pusillanimous attempt at the furthering of the lies, propaganda and indoctrination, people like you propagate...

  • Reply to: The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: El Del

    It may surprise you to learn that not everything or everyone in the world is about racism.

    All over the world, including Africa, there is physical diversity among modern humans. Due to its geographical position, Egypt has a long history of its people mixing with others from other countries. It has happened through peaceful contact, as well as foreign invasions.

    You would benefit from reading more about the history of modern humans, including how they spread around the world. This would be a helpful start:

    4 FEBRUARY, 2014 - 05:58 APRILHOLLOWAY
    New research reveals back-to-Africa gene flow from Eurasia to southern African populations

    http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-research...

  • Reply to: The True Origins of the Legend of Brutus of Troy and the London Stone   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Thomas Nordby

    'Locale'

  • Reply to: The True Origins of the Legend of Brutus of Troy and the London Stone   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Thomas Nordby

    I'm wondering, why that particular stone? It seems that it came from a different local and was taken from there, and brought to where it is, for a reason. What was the reason?

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Clyde Winters

    These comments are pure speculation. Professional archaeologists would not claim a site was 100ky old, and risk ridicule by their peers.

    The Brazilian researchers make it clear that the charcoal was found in a hearth. If there had been a low oxygen fire event at Cerro de Capivara 100,000 ago, the charcoal would have been found over an extended area, and it would persist in the fire burn area over time, instead of inside a hearth.

    In summary, the amount of charcoal produced by a fire event would be found over a widespread area where the burn occurred , not inside of a hearth.

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Yvie Rijs

    Interesting finding. Think more archeologists need to read Z. Sitchin's Earth Chronicals. Cuneiform clay tables mention this already.

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Clyde Winters

    Your comments are nothing more than speculation. You have presented no evidence except your own ideas that the tools from Crete are not the result of human manufacture.

    Trenton W. Holliday,in "Evolution at the Crossroads: Modern Human Emergence in Western Asia, American Anthropologist,102(1) [2000], tested the hypothesis that if modern Africans had dispersed into the Levant from Africa , "tropically adapted hominids" would be represented in the archaeological history of theLavant,especially in relation to the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids. This researcher found that the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids (20,000-10,000),were assigned to the Sub-Saharan population, along with the Natufians samples (4000 BP). Holliday also found African fauna in the area.

    Holliday confirmed his hypothesis that the replacement of the Neanderthal people were Sub-Saharan Africans. This shows that there were no European types in the Middle East Between 20,000-4,000BP. Moreover, we clearly see the continuity between African culture from Nubia to the Levant.
    Below are a few other quotes from the paper by Holliday they show that the population at this time were Negroid in Southwest Asia.

    "In this light, some of the more robust assignments (albeit not 95% of the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids to the sub-Saharan African sample (e.g., Qafzeh 8 at 85%, Skhul 4 at 71%) are remarkable indeed" (p. 62).

    "The Qafzeh-Skhul hominids have sometimes been refered to as "Proto-CroMagnons" (e.g., Howell 1957; Vandermeersch 1996) because of their presumed similarity to the famous Aurignacian-associated hominids from Western Europe....Specifically [Brace], he notes that "in both the details of its dental and craniological size and from Qafzeh is an unlikely proto-Cro-Magnon, but it makes a fine model for the ancestors of modern sub-Saharan Africans"(p.63).

    "taken as a whole, the work of Tchernov seems to support the findings of the current research that the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids have their origins in Africa, while the Neanderthals are from cold to temperate biomes"(p.64).

    "The current study demonstrates African-like affinities in the body shape of the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids. This finding is consistent with craniofacial evidence (Brace 1996) and with zooarchaeological data indicating the presence of African fauna at Qafzeh (Rabinovich and Tchernov 1995; Tchernov 1988, 1992)" (p.64).

    As you can see the Qafzeh-Skhul hominids were Africans. These Africans also carried their flora and fauna into the Levant with them.

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Clyde Winters

    There is abundant evidence Africans crossed the Atlantic, especially the African material from Brazil and the Solutrean artefacts found in North America, and the genetic evidence of Paleoamericans carrying D4, which is the same as the African M1 lineage.
    The Solutrean sites in the Americas is evidence of Africans in Paleoamerica. The oldest North American culture is not the Colvis culture.
    There is no evidence that the first Americans crossed the Beringa to enter America. The Archaeological evidence does not point to any ancient site in Asia were the predecessors of the Paleoamericans came from. Name one archaeological site from Asia that relates to a Paleoamerican site.
    There is no archaeological evidence that situate the Clovis people in Siberia.Stanford, Dennis J. and Bruce Bradley , In Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture, noted that "Our evaluation of the Beringian data is that there is no [archaeological] evidence of Clovis ancestors in Siberia. The oldest fluted points in Alaska are younger than western Clovis and much younger than the early sites in eastern North America”.
    Stanford and Bradley (2012) maintain that sites dating between 25,000-13000 years ago, namely the offshore Cinmar site, Meadowcroft Rock Shelter in Pennsylvania, Oyster Cove on the Chesapeake Bay, Cactus Hill in Virginia, and the Miles Point site. They claim that tools at this site resemble Solutrean tools, not Eurasian tool kits (Stanford and Bradley ,2012).Europeans did not introduce the Salutrean culture to the North America. There is no way Europeans could have made it to North America during the Ice Age. Salutrean culture originated in South Africa and was spread to North Africa, and later Europe and America.. This pottery tradition was taken to Europe and America by Africans. The earliest dates for the Salutrean culture come from Africa, not Europe.
    Many researchers have recognized that the Solutrean culture of Iberia probably originated in Africa ( Burkitt, 2012; Childe, 2001; Debenath et al, 1986; Debenath and Dibble,1994; Tiffagom, 2007 ) . It is the mainstream view of Spanish prehistorians (Pericot, 1950). Pericot (1950,1955) believed that the tanged points at the Parpallo site of the Solutrean were of Aterian cultural origin. Burkitt ( 2012) said that there were Algerian tools similar to the Solutrean tool kit. Gordon Childe (2009) claimed that the North African and Spanish populations that used the Solutrean tools were in direct communication.
    The African hypothesis for the origin of the Solutrean culture has been revised by Debénath et al (1986) and Ramos (1998). Debénath et al ( 1986) argues that Iberomarusians crossed the Straits of Sicily, into Tunesia 25-22kya, and progressively drove the Solutreans out of North Africa into Iberia. Debénath et al (1986) maintains that this migration OoA matches the origination of the Solutrean culture after 21ky. The Solutrean tanged points are at least 18-19ky old at Estremadura, Calderirao Cave and Parpalló Cave in Valencia ( Straus, 2001).
    Researchers have found evidence that Solutrean artifacts have been found on North American sites where PaleoAmericans remains have been found. These artefacts support an early African migration to America before people crossed the Beringa.

    The so-called genetic evidence does not point to Siberia. The genetic data points to South American Native Americans, not North American Native Americans. In addition, some researchers attempt to imply that the earliest aDNA comes from Siberia this is false too.
    The Mal’ta individual in Central Eurasia is not related to the Eskimos or the Beringa. The Mal’ta site artefact assemblages, especially the mobiliary art, it may be interpreted as related to the Gravettian, which spread from West into Central Eurasia, west of Lake Baikal, not the Bering Strait.
    There is no continuity between the Anzick man and contemporary mongoloid Native Americans. In A genomic view of the peopling of the Americas, by Pontus Skoglund, and David Reich: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reichlab/Reich_Lab/Welcome_files/Skoglun...
    the researchers noted that " The most surprising finding was that the Anzick individual is from a population more closely related to Central Americans and South Americans than to some northern North Americans (including all speakers of Algonquian languages studied to date), despite the apparent common ancestral origin of Native Americans across the continents. "

    Look at how researchers make confusing statements,. If the Anzick man is not related to contemporary "northern North Americans (including all speakers of Algonquian languages studied to date)", there is in reality no "apparent common ancestral origin of Native Americans across the continents " .

    Haplogroup M was a common Paleoamerican haplogroup. Most contemporary Native Americans carry mtDNA that belongs to the M macrohaplogroup, name A and B.

    Paleoamericans carried haplogroup M, e.g., the 5000 year old skeletons carrying haplogroup M from China Lake, British Columbia (Malhi et al., 2007), and more than likely Naia of Mexico who was D1 and the Anzick child who belonged to the D4 clade.

    The Anzick child and Naia carried the D haplogroup , which is the name for M1, in Asia. Haplotypes with HVSI transitions defining 16129-16223-16249-16278-16311-16362; and 16129-16223-16234-16249-16211-16362 have been found in Thailand and among the Han Chinese (Fucharoen et al, 2001; Yao et al, 2002) and these were originally thought to be members of Haplogroup M1, which is of African origin. However, on the basis of currently available FGS sequences, carriers of these markers have been found to be in the D4a branch of Haplogroup D , the most widespread branch of M1 in East Asia (Fucharoen et al, 2001; Yao et al, 2002). The transitions 16129,16189,16249 and 16311 are known to be recurrent in various branches of Haplogroup M, especially M1 and D4. The Paleoamericans as noted by Nives were related to Africans, Melanesians and Australians, not Mongoloid people.

  • Reply to: The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Egyptians Were Most Closely Related to Ancient Populations from the Near East   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: daliya robson

    during the New Kingdom of Egypt, Nubia (Kush) was an Egyptian colony, from the 16th century BC governed by an Egyptian Viceroy of Kush. With the disintegration of the New Kingdom around 1070 BC, Kush became an independent kingdom centered at Napata in modern northern Sudan.

  • Reply to: The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Egyptians Were Most Closely Related to Ancient Populations from the Near East   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: daliya robson

    There were a time of nubian black kings for sure. Perhaps they were mumified in a different place and thier dna not tested . Both are correct I think . KUSH was africa and the egyptians fell to the kings of Kush. iM NOT SUIRE OF THE DATE. Perhaps that came later .There is racism in the world for sure for sure but I dont think in this case its deliberate.

  • Reply to: The Giant Footprint of Pingyan: Giant Made or Man Made?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Rene

    Giant in the remote past existed. It also makes sense that they would as the Earth was inhabited by the AGE of the GIANTS - Dinosaurs - Imperial Mastodons etc. The Bible also tells us that they existed, so does Native American Legends. There are real artifacts from giants such as ancient ax heads, hammer heads, swords, armor, helmets, jewelry, SKULLS and Bones, and foot prints left in solid rock that could only have happened when it was still soften earth millions of years ago. To end this article with "the research that has already been done points to that answer being unlikely" referring to giants existence and foot prints made by them that are million of years old, is sticking your head in sand and pretending that there isn't a whole other history of Earth that we are not being told about.

  • Reply to: Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Dimitris

    My friend Peter Angel...don't believe if you want and don't try to convice other people speaking about one topic or discussion where somebody is trying to connect with wrong way the ancient thracians with our days bulgarians...Don't connect Achillea and his army Myrmidones where they lived in greek thessaly and more concrete to area of Fthiotida in the ancient Fthia with the today bulgarians and this geographical area because then really we are in different conversation..Great balkanologists they are supporting that the present bulgarians appeared from asia and more specific from moggolia. The only different possible scenario is that they are slavs who they came to the area 5th - 7th century AD with the other slav tribes who came in europe. Possible they mixed together too.. All the other scenarios just they don't exist and for sure not connections with the ancient thracians who they were greek tribes and thats why they were taking part to the ancient olympic games where only greeks could take part.

  • Reply to: Ten Enduring Mysteries of China’s Longyou Caves   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Laltea

    Zhau,Mizo or ZO people now settled in india an Myanmar has a falktale that their ancestors came out of a cave called Chhinlung or Sinlung or Khul,somewhere in China. Could this be the same cave the Zo people talked about in their falktale?
    In the falktale the Zo people were let out from a cave from where the move to their present settlement.
    Were they slaves who constructed these caves by Some chinese emperor who let them.out after the construction was finished?

  • Reply to: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First? Part 1   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Nimue

    I'd like to know what they were hiding by destroying all the libraries. Clearly something leaders across the globe didn't want being known ever.

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Willy

    No, it is not a certainty. It is in fact, rank speculation. There is no evidence what so ever that modern humans crossed the Atlantic to populate the Americas. Not from Europe, not from Africa. ALL genetic and archaeolocical evidence to date indicates that the Americas were populated from Siberia in 2 waves. The first consisting of the ancestors of all Native Americans (Indians) and a second, much later one consisting of the ancestral Eskimos. This is not even open to debate. It is a fact. The only question are when and by what route this took place. While it is certain that some Siberians did cross the Bering land bridge after some time on the Beringian sub-continent, it is quite likely that others arrived via boat along the west coast of North America. While the majority of the coast north of Southern California was icebound at the time, there were quite a few ice free land falls along the way. I would speculate that the Americas were initially populated from the middle (S.California to N. Mexico) to the north and south. The age of sites in the American Southwest and Central America seems to be bearing this out. Of course, sea levels were as much as 200 M lower then they are today so much of this archaeology is now submerged. There is hope though. Under water Archaeology is making technological leaps and bounds. Sites are now being explored at the bottom of the Black Sea and in Doggerland (between England and Denmark/Holland) and the tech will only get better with time.

  • Reply to: Did Mankind First Exit Africa 100,000 Years Ago?   6 years 11 months ago
    Comment Author: Willy

    That is a reconstruction of Skhul V, a skull that has been variously described as a Progressive Neanderthal, an Archaic Modern Human and a human/Neanderthal Hybrid. These fascinating Hominids inhabited the area from about 80,000 to 120,000 years BP. They do not appear to have left any living descendants. Unfortunately, all efforts to get DNA samples from the Skhul, Qafzeh and Tabun hominids have been to date, unsuccessful.
    It important to note that this site, along with the rest of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula are still considered to be part of Africa archaeologically and ecologically speaking. Therefore, these dates do not alter the current Out of Africa theory. We are still looking at a first Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) diaspora event at between 80 and 85 thousand years BP with AMH reaching as far as Western India before the Toba Event at about 73,000 years BP. These numbers are solidly backed up by genomic and archaeological evidence. As to the "hand axes" from Crete, I am not familiar with the finds but, given the author's history of accepting speculation as fact I am doubtful. From the point of view of someone who can actually make an Aschulaen hand ax, I would have to say that the heavy matrixing (the veins of inclusions throughout the stone) makes it VERY unlikely that these "tools" are of human manufacture. Chances are that any attempt to knapp that stone would very quickly result in a small pile of pebbles.

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