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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 06:37 AM Dec 2015

Only 14,000 years ago we slept with primitive hominids and ate their marrow?

Boy this story might change our understandings



A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age.

The 14,000 year old bone—found among the remains of China's enigmatic 'Red Deer Cave people'—has been shown to have features that resemble those of some of the most ancient members of the human genus, (Homo), despite its young age.

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The investigators found that the thigh bone matched those from species like Homo habilis and early Homo erectus that lived more than 1.5 million years ago but are cautious about its identity.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-red-deer-cave-people-bone.html#jCp

I read that the hip was butchered and the marrow was eaten plus
it was then covered up and blessed with red ochre,....... I'll try to find that point but read it when I was researching this story.

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