JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

crow...@eircom.net wrote:

It's unlikely that there would have been any trace of
a "slight lens-shaped disturbance" after all that time
-- even if they'd been looking for one, which frankly
I doubt.

"They buried their dead" is dumb for a lot of reasons,
but let's just touch on a few...

#1. It doesn't answer any questions.

There's no questions that "They buried their dead"
answers. Nobody is wondering how bodies got some
place or why they find things a certain way -- in
a context where "They buried their dead" would
answer.

In the recent cave finds, for example, this supposed
"Homo Naledi," everyone outside of the playground
seems pretty satisfied that a group died inside the
cave.

#2. It RAISES questions that don't otherwise exist.

If they were burying their dead 100k years ago,
or even millions or years ago, why did they stop?
Why isn't Africa littered with graves? Why do we
find clear, unambiguous graves as far away as
Australia Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
before we find them in Africa? How/why did Africa
FORGET how to bury their dead?

It's not that we're "Missing" 100k year old
graves (and much older) because nobody thought
to look, we're missing 60k year old, and even
40k years old... we're missing EVERYTHING. We
find plenty of graves, and just not in Africa.

Interesting note, and perhaps related: We DO
have unambiguous evidence for cannibalism going
back at least 800 thousand years. Perhaps they
never buried their dead EVEN LONG AFTER A POINT
WHEN THEY COULD because they couldn't afford to
waste all that free protein & calories...

Gross, by our modern standards, but only because
you are projecting yourself, your thinking,
backwards in time... as evidence by your "Graves."

...all this wisdom... WASTED here on usenet!

It ain't always easy being JTEM.




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