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Hmm. Isn't Mesopotamia like the "cradle of civilization," and Greece is far but not terribly far from Mesopotamia. While shocking news, maybe the first civiliza
by gatlinnewhouse 9y ago
Hmm. Isn't Mesopotamia like the "cradle of civilization," and Greece is far but not terribly far from Mesopotamia. While shocking news, maybe the first civilizations came from Mesopotamia/Mediterranean Sea area because people had been there the longest?
- s_m_t 9y agoCivilization happened long after humans came about
- gatlinnewhouse 9y agoGood point. I didn't think through this terribly much to be honest.
- s_m_t 9y agoEasy mistake to make, there is a reason they call it 'pre-history' :-)
- rosser 9y agoThe delta between these fossils and "civilization" is almost ten million years.
- coldtea 9y ago>Hmm. Isn't Mesopotamia like the "cradle of civilization," and Greece is far but not terribly far from Mesopotamia. That's not really relevant, as the Mesopotamian civilizations are still millions of years after the era of the skeletons found here.
- restalis 9y agoJudging from all the existing fossils, one can assume that the prehumans started shifting into humans somewhere around East Mediterranean, but still got to Africa first and evolved there. Somewhere much later, after some migration waves of other species of humans, came the Homo Sapiens Sapiens' turn - they left Africa and only then presumably got into that final continuous settlements around Mesopotamia.