Cidersomerset
30th June 2014, 23:42
I think the missing link is ET either we are direct ancestors or genetically
altered per the Annunaki or other races. But I'm still interested in the bones
of other Earth hominoids so here we are....
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Has an Australian archaeologist found a new species of human?
Pk_ywdlODLQ
Published on 23 Jun 2014
Professor Darren Curnoe was the joint leader of a team of archeologists who
unearthed the remains of prehistoric humans in Southern China.He is the focus of a
new documentary, Enigma Man: A Stone Age Mystery, investigating what the
remains reveal about human evolution.
Bill Birtles reports.
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'Enigma Man' may be new human species that lived until 11,000 years ago
DateJune 19, 2014 Clare Rigden
Fresh light on China's Red Deer Cave People raises big questions.
Has an Australian scientist been instrumental in helping discover a new species of
human? And what does this mean for our understanding of human evolutionary
history? These are two questions at the heart of a new documentary screening this
week on ABC1.
With Enigma Man we follow the groundbreaking research of Aussie
paleoanthropologist Darren Curnoe and his Chinese colleague, paleontologist Ji
Xueping.
Their study of ancient human remains found in a remote cave in South-west China
looks at the idea there may have been another species of human existing alongside
our ancestors as recently as 11,000 – 14,000 years ago.
Dubbed the '‘Red Deer Cave people’', these ancient people, or, more precisely, their
remains – so similar, yet so physically different from us – are much, much younger
than our Neanderthal relatives, posing some seriously interesting questions. Were
they really another human species? And if so, what happened to them? Why did
they die out? How did they live? And what were their interactions with our own
early relatives?
These are indeed big questions, Curnoe says, and that's what makes the search for
answers so fascinating.
http://images.smh.com.au/2014/06/16/5515504/1402896076536.jpg-300x0.jpg
Enigma Man: A figure based on the remains found in a remote cave in South West China.
“The documentary is about the process of deciding: do we have a new species or
not?” Curnoe, who is Associate Professor of evolutionary biology in the School of
Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW, explains.
“The fossils just don’t fit with the dominant view in science at the moment about
who was around 11,000 years ago or 14,000 years ago, how they relate to us, and
how we think of ourselves as humans in relation to nature.
“We tend to think of ourselves as special. So it raises some pretty deep and
challenging questions.
“There are views, which I subscribe to, and quite a lot of other people do too, that
there are at least 30 different species that are in the fossil record that would be
relatives of ours in some sense – some may be ancestors, some may be side-
branches that went extinct.
“The classic example is the Neanderthals – everyone has heard of them, even if you
don’t know much about them. What we are proposing is that instead of the
Neanderthals being the last of the other human-like creatures [before it was] just
us, we are in fact saying, well, no, this other group survived until much more
recently.”
What is fascinating about this documentary, written and directed by Daniella
Ortega, with Electric Pictures, is the dramatic re-enactments and reconstructions of
what these people might have looked like. Instead of simply presenting Curnoe and
Xueping’s research in a cut-and-dried way, the documentary gives it a distinctly
human relatability.
For Curnoe, who had worked with the Red Deer Cave people remains for the better
part of eight years, seeing his research come to life was extraordinary.
“I was blown away, actually,” he says, describing the first time he saw an actor in
full hair and make-up, looking like the ‘Enigma Man’ – the nickname given to the
mysterious remains – he’d been studying.
“I didn’t expect that the reconstructions would be that good and that lifelike. It was
actually quite confronting – just incredible,” he says.
“Between Daniella and the guy at make-up effects, we had been emailing, and I
was looking at the artistic representations and giving them feedback on how to
improve things and make them more anatomically accurate.
“I didn’t actually see anything physical until the day they filmed – I was blown
away by the quality of the work.”
“Our drama director Steve Westh and myself embarked on a process with an
incredibly talented prosthetic makeup team, Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou,” Ortega
says. “Together with our scientists Darren and Ji we all worked to create the ‘best
guess’ as to what these people looked like.
“Over weeks and ultimately months, our ‘man’ developed from sketches, then to
models, and finally to moulds that would fit onto our actors.
“It was a fascinating process, very detailed and painstaking, but ultimately our Red
Deer Cave people emerged – and they looked real AND right!”
Curnoe says he’s pleased his research, done in collaboration with Xueping, and first
published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2012, is reaching a new audience.
“It gets the science across in a pretty entertaining way, but it also gets the value
and the meaning of the work across really well,” he says.
“That’s something that’s really pleased me about the collaboration; the way
Daniella and her writing really made an incredible effort to get the point across that
this is not just esoteric science, but is, in fact, something that touches us very
deeply and has some real meaning and value in terms of the way we think about
ourselves and the way we relate to the
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/enigma-man-may-be-new-human-species-that-lived-until-11000-years-ago-20140616-zs9dz.html#ixzz36AEst0xP
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ENIGMA MAN: A Stone Age Mystery on ABC TV 24 June
mAqR93K27TA
Published on 25 May 2014
Produced by: http://www.electricpictures.com.au/
A team of Australian and Chinese scientists discovers mysterious ancient human
remains from a remote cave in South West China. The bones are unlike any living
human or any ancient human known to science, yet they were alive at the same
time as humans of our own kind. Could they represent a new human species? And
if so, what happened to these people? Join the unfolding investigation to unravel
the mystery and travel back in time into their Stone Age world. These ancient
bones challenge everything we think we know about human evolution and raise
possibly the biggest question of all -- what truly makes us human?
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The discovery was announced a few years ago under 'Denisovan man'
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19010reddeercavepeople.jpg
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/enigma-man/
MAIL ON LINE
A new chapter in human history: Startling discovery of Stone Age cavemen in China
who 'are an entirely new species'
'Red deer people' lived 14,500-11,500 years ago in Asia
Previously thought that homo sapiens had continent to themselves
'Highly unusual' mixture of ancient and modern - could be new species
Could also be relic of early migration out of Africa which died out
By Rob Waugh
Published: 15:00, 14 March 2012 | Updated: 09:27, 16 March 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114867/Fossil-suggests-new-hominid-species-Stone-Age-cavemen-Red-deer-people-discovered-China.html#ixzz36AXGgbDv
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Meet some of the other flint Stones.....
http://blueollie.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ourrelatives.jpg
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Human Evolution Homo Erectus, Goliath, the Hobbit (NatGeo)
gyhBv2RPiGg
Published on 24 Feb 2013
Part of "Search for the Ultimate Survivor" from NatGeo. According to present data,
it is believed that homo erectus evolved into Goliath and the Hobbit in two different
parts of the world, both discoveries completely changed our understanding of
human evolution in the last decade or so.
'Hobbit' joins human family tree
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40462000/jpg/_40462667_hflores_pa_203.jpg
Chris Stringer and LB1, PA Chris Stringer holds a
cast of the 18,000-year-old hominid LB1
Read more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
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RUETERS....
http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100408&t=2&i=88867870&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2010-04-08T194921Z_01_AJOE6371J2B00_RTROPTP_0_OZATP-HUMAN-SPECIES-SAFRICA-20100408
(Reuters) - Two partial skeletons unearthed in a South African cave belong to a
previously unclassified species of pre-human dating back almost 2 million years and
may shed new light on human evolution, scientists said on Thursday.
Fossils of the bones of a young male and an adult female suggest the newly
documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, walked upright and shared
many physical traits with the earliest known human Homo species.
The finding of the pre-human, or hominid, fossils -- which scientists say are
between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old -- was published in the journal Science
and may answer some key questions about where humans came from.
Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who led the team
that found the fossils in August 2008, told a news conference held near the cave
outside Johannesburg the discovery was "unprecedented".
"I am struck by the exceptional nature of something right on our doorstep ... there
are more hominid fossils than I have ever discovered in my entire career," he said.
"When we found it we never imagined that we were looking at a new species."
Berger earlier told reporters by telephone the team were hoping to reveal a
possible two further skeletons from the same site.
He was reluctant to define the new species as a "missing link" in human
evolutionary history, but said it would "contribute enormously to our understanding
of what was going on at that moment where the early members of the genus Homo
emerged".
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/08/ozatp-human-species-safrica-idAFJOE6370I820100408
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This fello does remind me a bit like.......
http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/skull-hominin-species.jpg
Homo Martian...LOL
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ChiEU6m14DU/UXhzNO3j8pI/AAAAAAAAE6I/OMKio9JXLyg/s1600/marshumanoidskull72.jpg
altered per the Annunaki or other races. But I'm still interested in the bones
of other Earth hominoids so here we are....
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Has an Australian archaeologist found a new species of human?
Pk_ywdlODLQ
Published on 23 Jun 2014
Professor Darren Curnoe was the joint leader of a team of archeologists who
unearthed the remains of prehistoric humans in Southern China.He is the focus of a
new documentary, Enigma Man: A Stone Age Mystery, investigating what the
remains reveal about human evolution.
Bill Birtles reports.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Enigma Man' may be new human species that lived until 11,000 years ago
DateJune 19, 2014 Clare Rigden
Fresh light on China's Red Deer Cave People raises big questions.
Has an Australian scientist been instrumental in helping discover a new species of
human? And what does this mean for our understanding of human evolutionary
history? These are two questions at the heart of a new documentary screening this
week on ABC1.
With Enigma Man we follow the groundbreaking research of Aussie
paleoanthropologist Darren Curnoe and his Chinese colleague, paleontologist Ji
Xueping.
Their study of ancient human remains found in a remote cave in South-west China
looks at the idea there may have been another species of human existing alongside
our ancestors as recently as 11,000 – 14,000 years ago.
Dubbed the '‘Red Deer Cave people’', these ancient people, or, more precisely, their
remains – so similar, yet so physically different from us – are much, much younger
than our Neanderthal relatives, posing some seriously interesting questions. Were
they really another human species? And if so, what happened to them? Why did
they die out? How did they live? And what were their interactions with our own
early relatives?
These are indeed big questions, Curnoe says, and that's what makes the search for
answers so fascinating.
http://images.smh.com.au/2014/06/16/5515504/1402896076536.jpg-300x0.jpg
Enigma Man: A figure based on the remains found in a remote cave in South West China.
“The documentary is about the process of deciding: do we have a new species or
not?” Curnoe, who is Associate Professor of evolutionary biology in the School of
Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW, explains.
“The fossils just don’t fit with the dominant view in science at the moment about
who was around 11,000 years ago or 14,000 years ago, how they relate to us, and
how we think of ourselves as humans in relation to nature.
“We tend to think of ourselves as special. So it raises some pretty deep and
challenging questions.
“There are views, which I subscribe to, and quite a lot of other people do too, that
there are at least 30 different species that are in the fossil record that would be
relatives of ours in some sense – some may be ancestors, some may be side-
branches that went extinct.
“The classic example is the Neanderthals – everyone has heard of them, even if you
don’t know much about them. What we are proposing is that instead of the
Neanderthals being the last of the other human-like creatures [before it was] just
us, we are in fact saying, well, no, this other group survived until much more
recently.”
What is fascinating about this documentary, written and directed by Daniella
Ortega, with Electric Pictures, is the dramatic re-enactments and reconstructions of
what these people might have looked like. Instead of simply presenting Curnoe and
Xueping’s research in a cut-and-dried way, the documentary gives it a distinctly
human relatability.
For Curnoe, who had worked with the Red Deer Cave people remains for the better
part of eight years, seeing his research come to life was extraordinary.
“I was blown away, actually,” he says, describing the first time he saw an actor in
full hair and make-up, looking like the ‘Enigma Man’ – the nickname given to the
mysterious remains – he’d been studying.
“I didn’t expect that the reconstructions would be that good and that lifelike. It was
actually quite confronting – just incredible,” he says.
“Between Daniella and the guy at make-up effects, we had been emailing, and I
was looking at the artistic representations and giving them feedback on how to
improve things and make them more anatomically accurate.
“I didn’t actually see anything physical until the day they filmed – I was blown
away by the quality of the work.”
“Our drama director Steve Westh and myself embarked on a process with an
incredibly talented prosthetic makeup team, Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou,” Ortega
says. “Together with our scientists Darren and Ji we all worked to create the ‘best
guess’ as to what these people looked like.
“Over weeks and ultimately months, our ‘man’ developed from sketches, then to
models, and finally to moulds that would fit onto our actors.
“It was a fascinating process, very detailed and painstaking, but ultimately our Red
Deer Cave people emerged – and they looked real AND right!”
Curnoe says he’s pleased his research, done in collaboration with Xueping, and first
published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2012, is reaching a new audience.
“It gets the science across in a pretty entertaining way, but it also gets the value
and the meaning of the work across really well,” he says.
“That’s something that’s really pleased me about the collaboration; the way
Daniella and her writing really made an incredible effort to get the point across that
this is not just esoteric science, but is, in fact, something that touches us very
deeply and has some real meaning and value in terms of the way we think about
ourselves and the way we relate to the
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/enigma-man-may-be-new-human-species-that-lived-until-11000-years-ago-20140616-zs9dz.html#ixzz36AEst0xP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ENIGMA MAN: A Stone Age Mystery on ABC TV 24 June
mAqR93K27TA
Published on 25 May 2014
Produced by: http://www.electricpictures.com.au/
A team of Australian and Chinese scientists discovers mysterious ancient human
remains from a remote cave in South West China. The bones are unlike any living
human or any ancient human known to science, yet they were alive at the same
time as humans of our own kind. Could they represent a new human species? And
if so, what happened to these people? Join the unfolding investigation to unravel
the mystery and travel back in time into their Stone Age world. These ancient
bones challenge everything we think we know about human evolution and raise
possibly the biggest question of all -- what truly makes us human?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The discovery was announced a few years ago under 'Denisovan man'
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/19010reddeercavepeople.jpg
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/enigma-man/
MAIL ON LINE
A new chapter in human history: Startling discovery of Stone Age cavemen in China
who 'are an entirely new species'
'Red deer people' lived 14,500-11,500 years ago in Asia
Previously thought that homo sapiens had continent to themselves
'Highly unusual' mixture of ancient and modern - could be new species
Could also be relic of early migration out of Africa which died out
By Rob Waugh
Published: 15:00, 14 March 2012 | Updated: 09:27, 16 March 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114867/Fossil-suggests-new-hominid-species-Stone-Age-cavemen-Red-deer-people-discovered-China.html#ixzz36AXGgbDv
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Meet some of the other flint Stones.....
http://blueollie.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ourrelatives.jpg
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Human Evolution Homo Erectus, Goliath, the Hobbit (NatGeo)
gyhBv2RPiGg
Published on 24 Feb 2013
Part of "Search for the Ultimate Survivor" from NatGeo. According to present data,
it is believed that homo erectus evolved into Goliath and the Hobbit in two different
parts of the world, both discoveries completely changed our understanding of
human evolution in the last decade or so.
'Hobbit' joins human family tree
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40462000/jpg/_40462667_hflores_pa_203.jpg
Chris Stringer and LB1, PA Chris Stringer holds a
cast of the 18,000-year-old hominid LB1
Read more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
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RUETERS....
http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100408&t=2&i=88867870&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2010-04-08T194921Z_01_AJOE6371J2B00_RTROPTP_0_OZATP-HUMAN-SPECIES-SAFRICA-20100408
(Reuters) - Two partial skeletons unearthed in a South African cave belong to a
previously unclassified species of pre-human dating back almost 2 million years and
may shed new light on human evolution, scientists said on Thursday.
Fossils of the bones of a young male and an adult female suggest the newly
documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, walked upright and shared
many physical traits with the earliest known human Homo species.
The finding of the pre-human, or hominid, fossils -- which scientists say are
between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old -- was published in the journal Science
and may answer some key questions about where humans came from.
Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who led the team
that found the fossils in August 2008, told a news conference held near the cave
outside Johannesburg the discovery was "unprecedented".
"I am struck by the exceptional nature of something right on our doorstep ... there
are more hominid fossils than I have ever discovered in my entire career," he said.
"When we found it we never imagined that we were looking at a new species."
Berger earlier told reporters by telephone the team were hoping to reveal a
possible two further skeletons from the same site.
He was reluctant to define the new species as a "missing link" in human
evolutionary history, but said it would "contribute enormously to our understanding
of what was going on at that moment where the early members of the genus Homo
emerged".
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/08/ozatp-human-species-safrica-idAFJOE6370I820100408
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This fello does remind me a bit like.......
http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/skull-hominin-species.jpg
Homo Martian...LOL
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ChiEU6m14DU/UXhzNO3j8pI/AAAAAAAAE6I/OMKio9JXLyg/s1600/marshumanoidskull72.jpg