Nov. 27, 2023
Early Germans were making & throwing sharpened boomerangs … 300,000 yrs ago – outside of Schöningen, Germany.
The blood stains on the … carefully seasoned, carefully shaped… sharpened ends of several early German-boomerangs confirm their use & purpose.
Next Challenge: … Find an early German didgeridoo !
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287719#pone.0287719.ref008
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And yes, for the people who want to argue that today’s Germans are not related to the people who seasoned the wood to craft these sharpened hunting-boomerangs, remember that the DNA of the prehistoric peoples living in Germany 300,000 yrs ago … still exists in today’s Germanic peoples.
Current best scientific evidence shows there were at least 5 different types of humans living in the lands now called Germany, 300,000 yrs. ago
Humans in Germany 300,000 yrs ago:
Start by considering a 2016 study & then a 2021 study to our current picture. In one recent breakthrough, Chris Stringer’s 2016 study found Homo heidelbergensis to have NOT been the common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans.
This means that if you’re reading sources that describe H. heidelbergensis as the supposed ancestor of both Neanderthals & modern humans, the you need to un-remember those studies & sourced. 2016 results show H. Heidelbergensis being placed entirely on the Neanderthal side of the tree as the LCA (Last Common Ancestor) of Neanderthals … coincidentally along with Denisovans (close relatives of the Neanderthals), and the LCA’s of the Steinheim skull … which is classified as an early Neanderthal fossil.
When we take this into account, the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) of modern humans and Neanderthals needs to be dated even further back, e. g. to Homo erectus the last LCA shared by Neanderthals & modern humans (Homo sapiens).
Then, to make the evolutionary bush even a bit more convolved (stealing from Stephen J. Gould) … It appears the Steinheim skull is part of the pre-neanderthal “Neandersovans”, the proposed LCA of Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Continuing to today’s latest information, Chris Stringer’s subsequent 2021 study found that Steinheim sits as a sole sister to a group containing H. antecessor and H. longi, who were also present at the 300,000 yr time window – along with Homo erectus also being present in Germany, as the Homo sapiens arrived later.
In this view, together they (H. antecessor, Steinheim and H. longi), are currently considered as sister to the Neanderthals … along with Denisovans.
AND YES … We are all sitting with bated-breath, until we get ancient DNA evidence to definitively sort this all out.
Yet, as good Germans … these 5 groups of folks were all our ancestors. 😉
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920294/
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454562/
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Hi Yucalandia. I tried looking for your contact information but didn’t find it. I wanted to contact you to see if you could provide relevant information about driving a mexican plated car in the USA (im a mexican citizen). I know I can drive it up to 1 year. I was wondering that if after one your, if I could drive out of the country (either going to Canada or back to mexico for a weekend) and if this would “reset” the 1 year countdown. Also, I was wondering if you could provide me with the specific legislation where I could read more about this. Thank you
That’s an interesting question.
In theory, yes … but imagine explaining to a road-side cop, to look in your NOW often electronic passport records … to document when you last entered.
I haven’t driven across the border, under the newer systems … so, I would be sure to get some hard-copy documentation of proof of exiting the USA into Mexico, and hard-copy documentation of proof of re*entering the USA.
“Nonresidents of the U.S. (including U.S. citizens living abroad) may temporarily import nonconforming motor vehicles into the U.S. for personal use, for a period not to exceed one year. The vehicle must be registered in a country other than the U.S. at the time of entry, must not be sold while it is in the U.S., and must be exported when the year is up. If you wish to import your vehicle under these conditions, you should check Box 5 on the HS-7 Declaration Form to be given to Customs at the time of entry. Your passport number and the country that issued the passport must be specified on the declaration. An international convention governs the importation of these vehicles. The U.S. is a signatory to this convention. The convention provides that vehicles can be imported under its terms for a period of up to one year. NHTSA has no authority to extend the one-year period that a vehicle imported in this manner is allowed to remain in the U.S. ”
https://www.nhtsa.gov/importing-vehicle/importation-and-certification-faqs#:~:text=Temporary%20importation%20by%20non%2DU.S.,not%20to%20exceed%20one%20year.
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