Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> > Add up the number of Homo individuals found
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> > California = zero, a bedtime story.
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> Add up the number of individuals that have been
> found at Olduvai gorge zero.
FALSE, another bedtime story. It took .54 seconds for Google to find this Hominin at Olduvai:
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Another .48 seconds for Homo habilis and from there thousands of unequivocal tools and other bifaces right down to 130,000 years ago (plus down to today). All the conditions for continuous hominin use legal in a court of law at Olduvai Gorge have been met. Zero for Cerutti and California until Arlington Man along with hundreds of unequivocal formal artifacts for independent verification.
Add up the Old World, like all of it (instead of cutting out 99.9% of it) and you get hundreds of individuals.
No one is arguing honinins were not in the Old World. At around 130,000 years ago the OW has hundreds of hominin skeletal parts, tens of thousands of formal stone tools, and billons of flakes, while N and S America zero during that time.
Anzick/Alaska twins/Arlington Man skeletons (all roughly 13,000 yr. old or a little less) and from there back to 7,000,000 years ago (the arguably 1st Old World hominin) and you get a GIANT zero for the Americas.
That flunks the governments rules for allowable gaps in the record and flunks the Frye and Daubers tests for court of law evidence and so does the 117,000 year Cerutti gap. Still zero tools, zero skeletal material, zero DNA support for Cerutti.