Sorry meant
Olduvai Gorge
1.6 million years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_Gorge
> Adrian wrote:
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> I thought it was a lot longer for sentience
> maybe more than a million years ?
> How old is Orduvai Gorge hominids -
> suppose you ask what are the signs of thought - decoration -
> collection of objects such as fossils -
> burial rites.
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> Civilization - this one about 10,000 years -
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> Mogg
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>> I'm not an academic in ancient history but has a thirst to understand
>> the time scales of existence of sentient humans and the age of human
>> civilisation. What bids do we have to how far back we can stretch
>> human existence? Can we support perhaps 100,000 years?
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>> I'd be interested in the thoughts from the list to support or refute
>> such a timescale; indeed do any bids exceed 100,000 years of
>> conscious mankind?
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>> Best wishes
>>
>> Adrian
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