Human Culture Much Older Than Thought

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 48•31 • Aug 2, 2012

Scientists recently discovered 44,000-year-old jewelry made from ostrich eggs and poison-tipped arrows in a South African cave, a finding that suggests modern human culture emerged more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. What do you think?

“Well, I still say we don’t look a day over 18,000 years old.”
Marjorie Speck –
Boarding House Manager
“To find that we’ve had 20,000 more years to develop culturally just means there’s that much more to feel ashamed about.”
Jack Slyter –
Probate Lawyer
“Something definitely got lost over time, because my own poison-tipped arrows can’t kill for shit.”
William Sheedy –
Lumber Sorter

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