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When you take this discovery and put it alongside the Indonesian hobbits, it really makes you realise that the text book accounts can no longer stand as orthodox dogma. New research is also telling us that perhaps we came out of Asia and not Africa.

Everything just has to be labelled "Maybe" or "In light of current research" Anyone who clings to the comfort blanket of scientific absolutes and reckons that they have got the plot sussed are in for a few more shocks along the way. I'm waiting for the first dowsed discovery of a fossilised saurian space helmet.

I am with you all the way there Peter. I gave up trying to work out the meaning of just about everything and anything a long time ago, deciding to just simply observe life instead. Like watching a movie. It is a pretty crappy movie so far but I live in hope.

jonG

>...it really makes you realise that the text book accounts can no longer stand as orthodox dogma.<

Yup, "The stone tools from Pakefield are by far the oldest evidence we have for people in north Europe or the Alps... So who were they? That is a difficult question to answer... We do not know whether there was a local evolutionary transition to <i>heidelbergensis</i>, perhaps with a change to handaxe making, or whether new people and new technology came into western Europe, replacing or absorbing the previous inhabitants."*

The first handaxe from the Pakefield excavations will be on permanent display at the Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth. This beautiful axe is on display at Norwich Castle Museum until mid-January.

* <b>British Archaeology</b>. January-February 2006. pp 25.