Re: Oldest Remains of Modern Humans Are Identified

From: Seppo Pietikainen (s.pietikainen_at_kolumbus.fi)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:11:34 +0200

666 wrote:
> ian wrote:
>
>>>To find the age of the skulls, the researchers determined that
>
> volcanic
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>>>rock lying just below the sediment that contained the fossils was
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> about
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>>>196,000 years old.
>>
>>All this is asuming the bones or even the sediment did not move for
>>190 000 years. Sounds very unscientific conclusions determining age.
>
>
> excellent point!
>

Assuming, of course, that "ian's" posting was to the point, and sticking to the
facts. Perhaps "ian's" assumptions were "not exactly" all there was to to
the observations :)

Seppo P.

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