Human Culture Much Older Than Thought

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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

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“Something definitely got lost over time, because my own poison-tipped arrows can’t kill for shit.”

William Sheedy • Lumber Sorter