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Great Rift Volleys

Lucy’s enroute to Houston amid great controversy over whether her 3.2 million-year-old bones (a)  should be moved at all and (b) display of same constitutes a propaganda coup for the current government of Ethiopia.  Anthroblogger Hawks on some other proto-humans and ancient relics that got caught up in modern politics.   Here’s more on same, a Beeb article on Greek-Macedonian wrangling and Hitler’s fascination with archaeology as a poltical tool/weapon.

Topics: anthronerdism

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:32 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2007

One Response to “Great Rift Volleys”

1. Dave Surls Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

   “ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world’s most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia…”

   Man, are those airlines slow, or what?

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