The skeletal remains of a prehistoric boy that were found in an underwater cave in Mexico 4 years ago. At more than 10,000 years old, they are among the oldest human bones found in the Americas. The partial skeletons of three other ancient people have also been found by divers inside flooded caves. Anthropologists hope the body will help them trace ancient human migration to the Americas from Asia, something many scientists have denied for a long time.
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A sign of Prehistoric Religion? – Mysterious things can happen in ancient places. For instance, it has been discovered that the 5,300-year-old iceman who has been nicknamed Oetzi, discovered in the thawing Alps 19 years ago, may not have died where he was found in 1991. Instead, he may have been ceremoniously buried there.
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There’s evidence that we were – Whitley Strieber has often discussed evidence that a great human civilization collapsed between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, and now there is evidence that human beings were also much smarter then.
Two researchers say that a now-extinct race of humans had big eyes, child-like faces, and a genius-level IQ of around 150 (does this description sound familiar? Perhaps the Visitors are really time travelers, as Anne Strieber discusses on our first Dreamland show of 2010) NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
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Why did prehistoric cave artists pick certain walls?and not others?on which you paint their beautiful images? Their choices may have to do with acoustics.
Prehistoric artists may have painted the areas in their caves where singing, humming and music sounded best. Scientists have found that humming into some bends in a decorated cave wall produced sounds like those made by the animals painted on it.
In LiveScience.com, Heather Whipps quotes researcher Iegor Reznikoff as saying, “Why would the Paleolithic tribes choose preferably resonant locations for painting, if it were not for making sounds and singing in some kind of ritual celebrations related with the pictures?”
Art credit: freeimages.co.uk
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