Todd quotes New Scientist:

>"It is the result of an
>intriguing finding during their exploration of an ancient lake
>bed at Mata Merge on the island of Flores, about 500 km east of
>Bali. There, in a sandstone layer sandwiched between two deposits
>of volcanic ash, they found more than a dozen stone tools!
...
>"A technique called fission track
>dating shoved that layers of volcanic ash surrounding the tools
>were between 800 000 and 880 000 years old. Fossil plants and
>animals found near the tools dated from the same period."

Sounds like a fluke, but...

Howabout we all have a friendly wager regarding offbeat human origin
theories? I'll take the "Out of SE Asia" theory for a sawbuck. Ray has the
corner on "Neanderthal paternity". I'm not sure which has worse odds but
they would both pay off in silver dollars if they ever came to be the
accepted theories ;)

Cheers,
Kirt

Secola  /\  Nieft
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