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Originally Posted by ZeeZeeblue
And that's a good thing. Black folks have been sleep for way too long. We need to wake up and face reality. They are letting you know what the really think about you. It's time to stop being nice, and put all this "I'm a good Negro" bullshit down. Whites don't give a fvck.
Amen
We not to start asking what's in it for us? Why should we give you our votes, $$, etc? What are you going to for black America? We need to stop asking for permission like white people have some divine authority. We have to have our best interest at heart at ALL times. Weed out the negros who bring us down. If only....
-A Person
SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Distraction RE US March to Fascism
Nixakliel - 06/28/2013 - 09:51
IMO it's NO coincidence that just one day after the SCOTUS Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights act [= an insidious assault on the 14th & 15th Amendments], they appeased 'liberals' w a ruling favoring so-called 'marriage-equality' as a clever distraction. Thus in the 'liberal' blog-o-sphere they stopped talking about the SCOTUS assault on Voting Rights & started praising SCOTUS RE 'marriage-equality'.
Some Head-Lines: June 26, 2013 by The Guardian The Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Rulings Were Historic, but Not Enough - America will now be a kinder place for gay couples [so what about Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, the working class & working poor, whistle-blowers, etc...], but the battles do not end today. 37 states are without 'marriage equality' ...
June 26, 2013 @ Huf-Post Death of DOMA and Transformation of America on Gay Marriage
June 26, 2013 by Common Dreams Win for Equality: SCOTUS Rules DOMA Unconstitutional: [ironically this article features a Black {gay?} guy holding up both the American & 'Gay-Pride' Rainbow flags- the day after SCOTUS ruled that voting rights is merely a 'racial-entitlement' for Black & Brown folks in the good ole US-of-A]
June 27, 2013 by [DN!’s own] Amy Goodman @ TruthDig: The Supreme Court Makes History: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: [a telling Amy G quote: 'the legal ‘TRAVESTY’ that defined marriage in federal law as only between a man and a woman...']. While Amy G does note that the SCOTUS court had just gutted the 1965 Voting Rights act, she curiously fails to even mention the details of Ms Abigail Fisher's bogus case RE Univ of TX top 10% admissions prog as race-based [NOT!] AA prog [FYI: a filthy rich white 'Good Ole Boy' & ex UT alumni, Ed Blum, was behind both cases]- RE the 2nd alleged victory she sites. IMO Amy G's wrong. SCOTUS did NOT just take 2 steps forward & 1 step back- SCOTUS has aided & abetted the US' ever quickening march toward FASCISM- especially after Bush & Lil Bro Jeb HI-Jacked the 2000 election in FL [aided & abetted by SCOTUS], & the 9-11 'New Pearl Harbor' event on Bush Jr's watch. So they swung the door wide-open for so-called 'marriage-equality' [HUMM] as a clever distraction to appease 'liberals'!
However one might feel about 'gay-marriage', the SCOTUS court's gutting of the 1965 Voting rights act [as a so-called 'racial entitlement'] which many say is the culmination of the civil rights struggle [& which the modern women's & LGBT movements dove-tailed from, were inspired by, & have now apparently eclipsed]- is IMO actually an insidious assault on the 14th &15th Amendments. After they effectively 'neutralize' those IMO they won't be satisfied till they 'roll-back' the 13th Amendment- & 'Ole Dixie' would have effectively won the {'new'} Civil War!
At best the SCOTUS Court's non-decision in the UT vs Ms Fisher case was a wash- NOT a Victory- which up-holds other court decisions giving cover to the protracted & insidious assault on Affirmative Action progs [based on race- but excluding gender].
But Amy G [curiously] myopically overlooks other recent notorious SCOTUS court decisions IE: The Court's recent ruling in favor of notorious Chem & GMO giant Mon-Satan vs [a] regular farmer(s)
- The Court's notoriously ruling that corporations are persons & Corp $$$ = $peech [= BRIBE$]
- The Court's recent ruling that folks being arrested- even on a NON-Felony beef [IE: for a traffic ticket that had already been paid]- can be stripped-searched as general procedure [there goes the 4th Amendment!]
- THE Court's putting their seal of approval on Bush Jr HI-Jacking the 2000 election [by dissing 10s of thousands of mainly Black voters], by violating FL's state sovereignty & ordering a halt to FL's vote recount [which would have almost certainly resulted in confirming that Gore had won both FL & the WH].
IMO These SCOTUS rulings telegraph what the {white} Power Elites agenda really is RE what they see as threats & non-threats. Apparently they've got NO real issues w 'gay'-marriage [one can speculate why] nor LGBT's [& women] openly [but so-called 'patriotically'] being cannon-fodder for the US' Military Industrial Surveillance Security State- & 'patriotically' slaughtering innocent women, children & elders [ironically often at Marriage Celebrations - as well as funerals] over-seas, along-side other red-white-blue blooded war-mongering men [Note: In the name of so-called 'main-stream' LGBT 'liberal patriotism'- SF's 'Gay Pride' Parade just threw Bradley Manning under the Bush & Obama Regimes' Gitmo BUS!].
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Shamocracy Now's" Amy
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alia5012 on said:
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Paul H.
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diaryofanegress on said:
blakkminded on said:
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I agree.
anything that puts black folks in a negative light is rewarded by white people especially when black folks dog each other out, the white media loves it!
That's why black entertainers are the worst role models humanly possible for our youth because most will sell their souls and their mommas' soul to make a dollar and the white folks make them degrade themselves because they know it destroys our black youth to hear us call each other Bs and Ho*s and N**gas and chase after white folks to date and marry.
The BET awards is famous for promoting blacks who degrade other blacks, because of the damage it does to young black minds is priceless to the white supremacy system
This is all part of the white media's game plan and as parents we have to turn that TV off, bring out a book, or a toy that builds the mind or at least watch what they watch on TV and throw out that music that calls us degrading names
because if our kids are singing it and saying it and thinking it, one day we will look up and they will be it. You are what you say and do
-Paul H
Some Head-Lines: June 26, 2013 by The Guardian The Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Rulings Were Historic, but Not Enough - America will now be a kinder place for gay couples [so what about Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, the working class & working poor, whistle-blowers, etc...], but the battles do not end today. 37 states are without 'marriage equality' ...
June 26, 2013 @ Huf-Post Death of DOMA and Transformation of America on Gay Marriage
June 26, 2013 by Common Dreams Win for Equality: SCOTUS Rules DOMA Unconstitutional: [ironically this article features a Black {gay?} guy holding up both the American & 'Gay-Pride' Rainbow flags- the day after SCOTUS ruled that voting rights is merely a 'racial-entitlement' for Black & Brown folks in the good ole US-of-A]
June 27, 2013 by [DN!’s own] Amy Goodman @ TruthDig: The Supreme Court Makes History: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: [a telling Amy G quote: 'the legal ‘TRAVESTY’ that defined marriage in federal law as only between a man and a woman...']. While Amy G does note that the SCOTUS court had just gutted the 1965 Voting Rights act, she curiously fails to even mention the details of Ms Abigail Fisher's bogus case RE Univ of TX top 10% admissions prog as race-based [NOT!] AA prog [FYI: a filthy rich white 'Good Ole Boy' & ex UT alumni, Ed Blum, was behind both cases]- RE the 2nd alleged victory she sites. IMO Amy G's wrong. SCOTUS did NOT just take 2 steps forward & 1 step back- SCOTUS has aided & abetted the US' ever quickening march toward FASCISM- especially after Bush & Lil Bro Jeb HI-Jacked the 2000 election in FL [aided & abetted by SCOTUS], & the 9-11 'New Pearl Harbor' event on Bush Jr's watch. So they swung the door wide-open for so-called 'marriage-equality' [HUMM] as a clever distraction to appease 'liberals'!
However one might feel about 'gay-marriage', the SCOTUS court's gutting of the 1965 Voting rights act [as a so-called 'racial entitlement'] which many say is the culmination of the civil rights struggle [& which the modern women's & LGBT movements dove-tailed from, were inspired by, & have now apparently eclipsed]- is IMO actually an insidious assault on the 14th &15th Amendments. After they effectively 'neutralize' those IMO they won't be satisfied till they 'roll-back' the 13th Amendment- & 'Ole Dixie' would have effectively won the {'new'} Civil War!
At best the SCOTUS Court's non-decision in the UT vs Ms Fisher case was a wash- NOT a Victory- which up-holds other court decisions giving cover to the protracted & insidious assault on Affirmative Action progs [based on race- but excluding gender].
But Amy G [curiously] myopically overlooks other recent notorious SCOTUS court decisions IE: The Court's recent ruling in favor of notorious Chem & GMO giant Mon-Satan vs [a] regular farmer(s)
- The Court's notoriously ruling that corporations are persons & Corp $$$ = $peech [= BRIBE$]
- The Court's recent ruling that folks being arrested- even on a NON-Felony beef [IE: for a traffic ticket that had already been paid]- can be stripped-searched as general procedure [there goes the 4th Amendment!]
- THE Court's putting their seal of approval on Bush Jr HI-Jacking the 2000 election [by dissing 10s of thousands of mainly Black voters], by violating FL's state sovereignty & ordering a halt to FL's vote recount [which would have almost certainly resulted in confirming that Gore had won both FL & the WH].
IMO These SCOTUS rulings telegraph what the {white} Power Elites agenda really is RE what they see as threats & non-threats. Apparently they've got NO real issues w 'gay'-marriage [one can speculate why] nor LGBT's [& women] openly [but so-called 'patriotically'] being cannon-fodder for the US' Military Industrial Surveillance Security State- & 'patriotically' slaughtering innocent women, children & elders [ironically often at Marriage Celebrations - as well as funerals] over-seas, along-side other red-white-blue blooded war-mongering men [Note: In the name of so-called 'main-stream' LGBT 'liberal patriotism'- SF's 'Gay Pride' Parade just threw Bradley Manning under the Bush & Obama Regimes' Gitmo BUS!].
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Shamocracy Now's" Amy
beverly - 06/28/2013 - 22:56
"Shamocracy Now's" Amy Goodman discredits herself - again. She's another empire gatekeeper on the Democratic party side. Soros and company allow her to report just enough facts to fool viewers into believing she's the real deal truth-wise. I wised up to Goodman's game during the western axis of evil's war on Libya. DN regurgitated the govt propaganda about Libya and Ghadaffi. My last time tuning in to her charade was when she repeated the already discredited lie about Ghadaffi's troop using Viagra to engage in sexual assault.
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mswanda on said:
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mswanda on said:
I read that the witness in the Martin case is Haitian and english is her third language. So that’s maybe why she talks funny. White folks are looking for anything to defend Zimmerman. Reading blogs and the racist comments from whites is making me ill. They say things like “trayvon deserved to die” or “one less n____ to rob us” These people are sick. And they are saying that this child attacked a grown man that was stalking him. If that is true maybe Mr. Martin was standing his ground. Paula Deen can’t be helped. The Jew media is the one doing this to her. A Jewish female is suing her and she is throwing black people in the pot to strengthen her case. Black people can care less about Paula Deen. I’m more concerned about these cop/pigs killing our people, discriminating against us in employment, Blacks catching hell just trying to live our day to day lives. I can care less about what some white female thinks about me. Why isn’t Donald Trump catching hell? Just two weeks ago he said Blacks and Latinos are more violent and commit most of the crimes. He is not catching hell because he didn’t say anything about Jewish folks. Now it will look like Black people are gonna be blamed for Paula Deens Downfall when we had nothing to do with it. Wow, I didn’t know we had so much power. First it’s our fault the gays can’t get married and now we took down Paula Deen.
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alia5012 on said:
Yea^^^!i had posted something earlier this week about the Trayvon Martin murder.. On Facebook some Europeans created a page off the post mortem image that was shown for ALL to see on national tv, and are making a meme/mockery of it.. (Placing picture of this poor dead boy, in very disgusting and disrespectful ways). It boiled my blood down to the core because he was a CHILD who was murdered and they just showed it on tv like nothing , I have NEVER seent his done on any child that’s been murdered.. But with him they did it.. Long story short… Stop watching tv and don’t get involved in the trap. While we want justice, someone mentioned to me that its a trap, a distraction, and of course it’s going to anger us.. That’s what they want .. US to be angry..
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diaryofanegress on said:
Emile
Self reflection is the most important thing we need to start doing immediately. It’s hard because none of us wish to see the demons within ourselves.
Have you noticed whenever I post on our dysfunction and actually DOING SOMETHING and not just giving lip service, I get very few responses and comments?
Emile, we have a lot of work to do if we want to live. As for allowing edom to comment on here, I wish to remove them from all aspects of my black life. To me they are useless.
_______________________________Self reflection is the most important thing we need to start doing immediately. It’s hard because none of us wish to see the demons within ourselves.
Have you noticed whenever I post on our dysfunction and actually DOING SOMETHING and not just giving lip service, I get very few responses and comments?
Emile, we have a lot of work to do if we want to live. As for allowing edom to comment on here, I wish to remove them from all aspects of my black life. To me they are useless.
blakkminded on said:
Has anoyone noticed that white people are always attempting to give black folks guidance on how to live their lives? They tell us to get off of welfare; go to school in order to have a more prosperous life; how to dress and how fix our hair and how to speak. It seems as if most whites believe that we (blacks) are literally wards of the STATE. And that this is what gives them the impetus to belittle and speak to us in a condescending manner.
But yet, they never self-reflect and take a look at themselves. I surmise that taking inventory of themselves involves responsibility and whites for the most part as a group are in fact irresponsible people and are in fear of realizing the truth about themselves. THAT THEY ARE EVIL!
But yet, they never self-reflect and take a look at themselves. I surmise that taking inventory of themselves involves responsibility and whites for the most part as a group are in fact irresponsible people and are in fear of realizing the truth about themselves. THAT THEY ARE EVIL!
________________________ Positive Brothers
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I agree.
anything that puts black folks in a negative light is rewarded by white people especially when black folks dog each other out, the white media loves it!
That's why black entertainers are the worst role models humanly possible for our youth because most will sell their souls and their mommas' soul to make a dollar and the white folks make them degrade themselves because they know it destroys our black youth to hear us call each other Bs and Ho*s and N**gas and chase after white folks to date and marry.
The BET awards is famous for promoting blacks who degrade other blacks, because of the damage it does to young black minds is priceless to the white supremacy system
This is all part of the white media's game plan and as parents we have to turn that TV off, bring out a book, or a toy that builds the mind or at least watch what they watch on TV and throw out that music that calls us degrading names
because if our kids are singing it and saying it and thinking it, one day we will look up and they will be it. You are what you say and do
-Paul H
Most opponents of the public option are motivated by a vile form of social Darwinism. Can't afford insurance? Then die. That's actually how there vermin think. A for profit health care system is obscene. The public option slavery?? Get real!!
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trollslayer wrote:
DNA provides clear evidence of tropical African types migrating to
Paleolithic era Europe, contradicting claims of “Caucasoid” evolution in
situ. Tropical limb evidence confirms DNA. The African tropical types
may have interbred with local Neanderthals, but in any event would have
adapted to the colder conditions of Europe over time. QUOTE:
"Early modern Europeans reflect both their predominant African early
modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of admixture between
those early modern humans and the indigenous Neandertals. Given the
tens of millennia since then and the limitations inherent in ancient DNA,
this process is largely invisible in the molecular record. It is readily
apparent in the paleontological record.“
--E. Trinkhaus (2004) European early modern humans and the fate of the
Neandertals. PNAS 2007 vol. 104 no. 18 7367-7372
Paleolithic era Europe, contradicting claims of “Caucasoid” evolution in
situ. Tropical limb evidence confirms DNA. The African tropical types
may have interbred with local Neanderthals, but in any event would have
adapted to the colder conditions of Europe over time. QUOTE:
"Early modern Europeans reflect both their predominant African early
modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of admixture between
those early modern humans and the indigenous Neandertals. Given the
tens of millennia since then and the limitations inherent in ancient DNA,
this process is largely invisible in the molecular record. It is readily
apparent in the paleontological record.“
--E. Trinkhaus (2004) European early modern humans and the fate of the
Neandertals. PNAS 2007 vol. 104 no. 18 7367-7372
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She's experienced putdowns all her life -- often from other black people. Of course, she's got attitude. Many on the people who are criticizing her have "bad" attitudes themselves because of the way they have been treated in a white supremacy system like the U.S.
Maybe, instead of criticizing her, black people should be asking WHY the prosecutor agreed to a jury that omitted blacks? Or why his witnesses don't appear to be prepped for the trial -- instead of finding fault with a young lady who has come into a hostile legal system to do the right thing.
What is it about so many black people that we can't WAIT to throw our black youth under the bus? Are we so filled with anti-blackness and self-contempt that all we care about is how we "look" to white people?
I think it's courageous for a young black person to speak the truth about the murder of a young black male that the legal system would love to sweep under the rug like so much garbage. Instead of bashing her, we should be supporting her.
Whichever way this trial goes I hope we have the self-respect to hold the right white people accountable instead of bashing another black person.
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While living and traveling in the deep south I had the privilege of meeting and conversing with many people. An elderly black woman in her 80′s told me she was one of the first black educators in her town. She worked hard and saved her money to buy a home.
Now blacks buying a home was not unheard of BUT there was a condition. A black person was allowed to buy a home as long as it was not BRICK. I remember sitting there looking at her dumbfounded. She then said to me, “You heard me, colored people were not allowed to buy brick houses.”
All I could do is ask her, “But why?” She went on to tell me it was just the rule – COLORED PEOPLE COULD ONLY BUY WOOD FRAMED HOUSES.
The school superintendent was notified of her desire to purchase a BRICK house. At first he “gently” tried to dissuade her but she refused to budge. His next step was to threaten to fire her. She still did not budge. He relented (not having a replacement for her) and she was able to buy her home.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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Almoravid wrote:
Quote:
"Molecular biology has traced the ancestry of the Cro-Magnons deep into tropical Africa, into the territory of the hypothetical African Eve"...
Imperceptibly, in tiny numbers, the African ancestors of the Cro-Magnons expanded out of their tropical homeland at a time when human populations were on ...
--Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans, By Brian Fagan,pg 89 (2010).
Quote:
"...the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans....were more like present-day Australians or Africans..."
--Chris Stringer, African Exodus ((Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World's Mythologies) 2013)
http://tinyurl.com/na595yr
Oxford University Press
Quote:
"When canonical variates are
plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested...
If this analysis shows nothing else, it demonstrates that the oft-repeated
European feeling that the Cro-Magnons are “us”(46) is more a product of
anthropological folklore than the result of the metric data available from
the skeletal remains..."
--CL. Brace 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic to European craniofacial form
http://picturestack.com/654/224/XHbEncycloped...
Quote:
In modern humans, this elongation is a pattern characteristic of warm-adapted populations, and this physique may be an early Cro-Magnon retention from African ancestors. Similar retentions may be observed in certain indices of facial shape ...
--Alison S. Brooks, John Van Couvering, Eric Delson
___________
"...the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans....were more like present-day Australians or Africans..."
--Chris Stringer, African Exodus ((Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World's Mythologies) 2013)
http://tinyurl.com/na595yr
__________
This source means Australians or Africans,(which originally is 1 in the same) left Africa and migrated to a different part of the earth.
___
No meltdowns...just sources & LINKS
-trollslayer
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To that I add,
Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology / Volume 58 / Supplement S1 / June 2003, pp 37-44
Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape
TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL a2
Abstract
Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5′ 5′]) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices.
Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered ‘cold-adapted’, these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayA...
-Almoravid
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trollslayer wrote:
Now blacks buying a home was not unheard of BUT there was a condition. A black person was allowed to buy a home as long as it was not BRICK. I remember sitting there looking at her dumbfounded. She then said to me, “You heard me, colored people were not allowed to buy brick houses.”
All I could do is ask her, “But why?” She went on to tell me it was just the rule – COLORED PEOPLE COULD ONLY BUY WOOD FRAMED HOUSES.
The school superintendent was notified of her desire to purchase a BRICK house. At first he “gently” tried to dissuade her but she refused to budge. His next step was to threaten to fire her. She still did not budge. He relented (not having a replacement for her) and she was able to buy her home.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
______________________
Almoravid wrote:
Quote:
"Molecular biology has traced the ancestry of the Cro-Magnons deep into tropical Africa, into the territory of the hypothetical African Eve"...
Imperceptibly, in tiny numbers, the African ancestors of the Cro-Magnons expanded out of their tropical homeland at a time when human populations were on ...
--Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans, By Brian Fagan,pg 89 (2010).
Quote:
"...the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans....were more like present-day Australians or Africans..."
--Chris Stringer, African Exodus ((Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World's Mythologies) 2013)
http://tinyurl.com/na595yr
Oxford University Press
Quote:
"When canonical variates are
plotted, neither sample ties in with Cro-Magnon as was once suggested...
If this analysis shows nothing else, it demonstrates that the oft-repeated
European feeling that the Cro-Magnons are “us”(46) is more a product of
anthropological folklore than the result of the metric data available from
the skeletal remains..."
--CL. Brace 2005. The Questionable contribution of the Neolithic to European craniofacial form
http://picturestack.com/654/224/XHbEncycloped...
Quote:
In modern humans, this elongation is a pattern characteristic of warm-adapted populations, and this physique may be an early Cro-Magnon retention from African ancestors. Similar retentions may be observed in certain indices of facial shape ...
--Alison S. Brooks, John Van Couvering, Eric Delson
___________
"...the Cro-Magnons, the presumed ancestors of modern Europeans....were more like present-day Australians or Africans..."
--Chris Stringer, African Exodus ((Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World's Mythologies) 2013)
http://tinyurl.com/na595yr
__________
This source means Australians or Africans,(which originally is 1 in the same) left Africa and migrated to a different part of the earth.
___
No meltdowns...just sources & LINKS
-trollslayer
____________________________
To that I add,
Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology / Volume 58 / Supplement S1 / June 2003, pp 37-44
Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape
TRENTON W. HOLLIDAY a1 and STEVEN E. CHURCHILL a2
Abstract
Stature, body mass, and body proportions are evaluated for the Cheddar Man (Gough's Cave 1) skeleton. Like many of his Mesolithic contemporaries, Gough's Cave 1 evinces relatively short estimated stature (ca. 166.2 cm [5′ 5′]) and low body mass (ca. 66 kg [146 lbs]). In body shape, he is similar to recent Europeans for most proportional indices. He differs, however, from most recent Europeans in his high crural index and tibial length/trunk height indices.
Thus, while Gough's Cave 1 is characterized by a total morphological pattern considered ‘cold-adapted’, these latter two traits may be interpreted as evidence of a large African role in the origins of anatomically modern Europeans.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayA...
-Almoravid
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trollslayer wrote:
"The "human revolution" of innovation began in Africa per some scholars
QUOTE:
"Paleolithic scholars working in Africa identify numerous behavioral innovations associated with the MSA cultural entity.
These include (i)
technological standardization in producing diverse point styles,(ii) abstract thinking and symbolic behavior manifested in the use of ochre, geometric engraving design, and use of body adornments,(iii) planning and extensive alliance networks reflected in long distance raw material
transportation, and (iv) use of aquatic resources [29, 84–86].
These behavioral complexes are thought to have stimulated economic diversification and dispersal's within and out of Africa in the Upper Pleistocene [ibid.]. Of these, projectile
technology is considered to be an important innovation that enabled modern humans to broaden their spatial and dietary niches [29, 30, 87, 88]."
"The Levantine related Levallois method is poorly represented in Oman and in those areas east of the Rub’al Khali Desert; instead the sites there display a mosaic of local technological evelopments and some East African MSA affinities [69, 104]...
Somewhat appealing evidence concerning Upper Pleistocene cultural connections between NE Africa and the Arabian Peninsula comes from the recently excavated MP assemblage at the site of Jebel Faya 1, UAE [5].
Radiometrically dated to ¡127.95 kya, one stratified assemblage at the site (Assemblage C) contains both small handaxes and foliate
points produced by fac¢¬onnage technology, revealing close technological similarity with NE African MSA industries [5, 69].
Two younger assemblages from the site (A and B) indicate no apparent technotypological affinity with the Levantine, NE African, or other assemblages in the Arabian Peninsula [69, page 305]. Interestingly, a surface MSA assemblage with similar took kit to that of Jebel Faya
Assemblage C has recently been documented on the Eritrean Red Sea coast, at a site called Asfet [67]."
--Beyin (2011) Upper Pleistocene Human Dispersals out of Africa
QUOTE:
"Paleolithic scholars working in Africa identify numerous behavioral innovations associated with the MSA cultural entity.
These include (i)
technological standardization in producing diverse point styles,(ii) abstract thinking and symbolic behavior manifested in the use of ochre, geometric engraving design, and use of body adornments,(iii) planning and extensive alliance networks reflected in long distance raw material
transportation, and (iv) use of aquatic resources [29, 84–86].
These behavioral complexes are thought to have stimulated economic diversification and dispersal's within and out of Africa in the Upper Pleistocene [ibid.]. Of these, projectile
technology is considered to be an important innovation that enabled modern humans to broaden their spatial and dietary niches [29, 30, 87, 88]."
"The Levantine related Levallois method is poorly represented in Oman and in those areas east of the Rub’al Khali Desert; instead the sites there display a mosaic of local technological evelopments and some East African MSA affinities [69, 104]...
Somewhat appealing evidence concerning Upper Pleistocene cultural connections between NE Africa and the Arabian Peninsula comes from the recently excavated MP assemblage at the site of Jebel Faya 1, UAE [5].
Radiometrically dated to ¡127.95 kya, one stratified assemblage at the site (Assemblage C) contains both small handaxes and foliate
points produced by fac¢¬onnage technology, revealing close technological similarity with NE African MSA industries [5, 69].
Two younger assemblages from the site (A and B) indicate no apparent technotypological affinity with the Levantine, NE African, or other assemblages in the Arabian Peninsula [69, page 305]. Interestingly, a surface MSA assemblage with similar took kit to that of Jebel Faya
Assemblage C has recently been documented on the Eritrean Red Sea coast, at a site called Asfet [67]."
--Beyin (2011) Upper Pleistocene Human Dispersals out of Africa
