All,
While I am certainly not in a position to wax eloquent about the Narmada finds, I am sure (I hope) some of the Forum members will have something to say about the following which I have just picked up this morning:
Did early man originate in India?
30 May, 2007
NAGPUR: It may provide new clues to the history of mankind. A recent discovery by a city scientist working for the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) has strengthened the theory that the early man could have originated in India. It also hints at the possibility that central India might have been the hotbed of human evolution.
Dr Pradyut Gangopadhyay, working for ASI's local office, has discovered a part of femur (thigh bone) near Hathlora village in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, a part of Narmada valley. Though not dated through scientific means, scientists surmise the bone fossil is not less than 50,000 years old, which can be that of homo erectus, the ancestor of the modern man.
This is the third major discovery of human remains from the same place, which is termed as middle to later paleosicte stratum and relates to remains at least as old as 50,000 years.
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Jacques
