40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found

[Judi Lynn]

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found

By Stephen Morgan May 8, 2015 in Science .

In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.

The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia's border with China and Mongolia. It was found next to the bones of extinct animals, such as the wooly mammoth, and other artifacts dating back 125,000 years.
The cave is named after the Denisovan people — a mysterious species of hominins from the Homo genus, who are genetically different from both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.

We know that the Denisovans migrated out of Africa sometime after the first wave of Homo erectus, and well before us, Homo sapiens.
The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago. Indeed, the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/40-000-year-old-bracelet-from-extinct-human-species-discovered/article/432798#ixzz3Zre2DBRC

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Such a big deal this is. But cant be true, earth only 6000 years old.

[DetlefK]

8. "None of MY ancestors was a Denisovian or Neanderthal or monkey!"

[AlbertCat]

10. "None of MY ancestors was a Denisovian or Neanderthal or monkey!"

"If Neanderthals went extinct... then why are there still Neanderthals.... like me?"

[gordianot]

14. Some of mine were fish with gills, at one time as an embryo I even resembled them.

[DetlefK]

24. If kids evolve into adults, why are there still kids around???

[wolfie001]

28. lol. "They" are that stupid.

They being repukes.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

18. What were they?

[left-of-center2012]

15. earth only 6000 years old.

And flat.

[Freelancer]

26. Obviously put here to confound the faithful.

The evil one will stop at nothing, I tell you.

[Heather MC]

35. Agreed, someone made a mistake.

[mopinko]

2. i hate statements like this-

"All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance."


how would they know that?

[enlightenment]

4. Apparently, the same way they know

the bracelet (assuming that is what it was) was worn by a Denisovan "princess".

Nice find - weird reporting!

[Helen Borg]

19. But could she control dragons with it?

[enlightenment]

21. Good one!

[Freelancer]

27. Denisovans were obviously precursors to the Kardashians

The bracelet was found near a fossilized Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag.

[zeemike]

30. That is to convince you that they know a lot more than they really do

That branch of science is very sensitive about how smart they are.

[mopinko]

31. apparently.

they do it all the time. if there is a field of science where seeing the past through the lens of the present should seen as a fatal flaw it is this one.
and yet....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. What cracks me up is the way they try to explain away all the Roman erotica.

[mopinko]

39. fertility goddesses

right, right. try ancient porn.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

43. They didn't think of it as porn....

It was just part of life.

[mopinko]

44. no judgement involved.

just that naked, voluptuous women are nice to have around. no higher meaning needed.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

45. Exactly. Wings on a phallus wind chime wasn't selling Red Bull either.

[zeemike]

41. I have not heard that explanation.

But it is just about as credible as their other explanations of thing I am sure.

It is not anyway science, it is all just constructed story...a story that supports their own theory that history is linear and we are at the top. An ego trip at best.
The truth is that we don't know shit about it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. They know there has been a LOT lost of the ancient world....

Ever since Europeans got a sense of history they have been erasing it when they win a war.

It took a fragment of a smashed slab to decipher hieroglyphics.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. They play the religion card all the time....

Every fragment of road was for religious processions and every circle of stones was for prayers.

I like to think this piece of jewelry was a gift.

[mopinko]

40. every market place

was a temple.
yup. stupid.

[silverweb]

3. It always makes me laugh.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]You know, when certain people carry on about "racial purity," and others about 6000 years and such nonsense. Not only are humans today all interracial to some degree, we're actually an inter-species breed with origins about a million years ago.

Take that, you Genesis thumpers and idiotic racial purists!

[StarzGuy]

20. I agree

[shenmue]

5. Wow

[colsohlibgal]

6. The Understanding Of Our Past Keeps Evolving

And it will keep doing that. In our lifetime this other human like population has been found. Also - now we know the Neanderthals did not so much die out, we absorbed their DNA by interbreeding. If we have any non African blood we have Neanderthal DNA in us- some homo sapiens back then walked on the wild side.

It's also recently been proven that birds are descendants of dinosaurs.

More changes to come. The past is mysterious and who knows.

I watch some "Ancient Aliens" and a lot of it seems a stretch but some of it not so much.

[Sancho]

7. No need to be a Princess!! My wife bought a bracelet almost like that one on QVC!

I think it proves one thing - the female DNA for jewelry can be found in almost all species on earth.

[Curmudgeoness]

11. In all honesty,

they don't even know for sure that it was worn by a female.

[Tace]

22. Good Point!

Funny how we project ourselves onto things. I remember the TV animal shows from my youth, like Wild Kingdom, that projected all kinds of human motivations on animal behavior in the wild (though I imagine these Denisovians were quite human).

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Drill marks on the bracelet photos and more

Writing in the Novosibirsk magazine, Science First Hand, Dr Derevyanko said: "There were found two fragments of the bracelet of a width of 2.7cm and a thickness of 0.9 cm. The estimated diameter of the find was 7cm. Near one of the cracks was a drilled hole with a diameter of about 0.8 cm."

"Studying them, scientists found out that the speed of rotation of the drill was rather high, fluctuations minimal, and that was there was applied drilling with an implement - technology that is common for more recent times", Dr. Derevyanko told the Siberiantimes.


''The bracelet is stunning - in bright sunlight it reflects the sun rays, at night by the fire it casts a deep shade of green,' said Anatoly Derevyanko, Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Chlorite was not found in the vicinity of the cave and is thought to have come from a distance of at least 200km, showing how valued the material was at the time.


http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-stone-bracelet-is-oldest-ever-found-in-the-world/

[Orsino]

33. Aliens.

Even the model arm has only three fingers.

I think the Denisovans must have been the space brothers who brought bowling to Earth.

[Ichingcarpenter]

34. funny but on a serious note or should I say

what is very curious about this news is that even though the stone has a a relative low Mohs scale it still needed the technology to drill the hole and polish the stone. It is a rather advanced piece for its dating. Its like the figure they found at Gobeki Tepe the 12,ooo year old site that is also advance that has a belt buckle engraved on its figure. We are lacking a big piece in our historical record that was erased during the rapid melting of the ice caps which now have been proven to be done by either a comet or meteor.

The Prometheus theory not with standing is interesting but I'd rather know what happened when we came out of africa 200k years ago and really did nothing and then had a full blown civilization come out of Sumer. That's a lot of time to do stuff

[alfredo]

38. We don't do anything until we have to. We don't make anything until we need it.

[niyad]

12. k and r

[gordianot]

13. Incredible and humbling what we can learn and do not know

A real treasure.

[left-of-center2012]

16. I'm very bad

I emailed the article to my extremely evangelical born again brother. know he'll have a problem with there having been other "species" of humans.

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. Oh! I strongly disapprove.

Strongly enough to buy you a beer, were you in beer range.

[Locrian]

29. let alone 40,000 years old! - n/t

[AuntPatsy]

17. Very interesting

[grahamhgreen]

25. I was wondering where I put that thing...

[Shadowflash]

32. Obviously that was just planted there

by Satan to fool people.

Duh.