The Hidden History of the Human Race (The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology) by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson

Author:Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson [Cremo, Michael A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Prehistoric, Body, Science, Human remains (Archaeology), Fiction, Archaeology, Social Science, Eastern, Life Sciences, Human evolution, Anthropology, Philosophy, General, Evolution, Mind & Spirit, Human beings
Publisher: Torchlight Publishing Inc
Published: 2011-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Terra Amata

The Terra Amata site is located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. There, in the late 1960s, French anthropologist Henry de Lumley found oval patterns of post holes and stone circles indicating that hominids erected temporary shelters and built fires about 400,000 years ago. Also found were bone tools. Among them was one apparently used as an awl, perhaps to sew skins. Impressions found in the old land surface at the site were said to demonstrate that the hominids slept or sat on hides. Stone implements were also found, including an object described as a projectile point, made from volcanic rock obtained from the Esterel region, 30 miles away.

Significantly, no hominid fossils were found at Terra Amata. In his 1969 article about the Terra Amata discoveries published in Scientific American, de Lumley did, however, report the imprint of a right foot, 9.5 inches long, preserved in the sand of a dune. De Lumley did not identify the type of hominid that made the print. But judged from the available reports, the footprint is not different from that of an anatomically modern human being. This print tends to strengthen the skeletal evidence from the Middle Pleistocene sites we have just discussed.

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