Cro-Magnon refers to early modern humans (Homo sapiens) who lived in Europe approximately 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, named after the Cro-Magnon rock shelter in France where their fossils were first discovered in 1868.
They were anatomically and genetically identical to present-day humans, known for their sophisticated tool-making, elaborate cave art (such as at Lascaux and Chauvet), and successful adaptation to environments during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age).
They did not evolve or “mutate” from sub-Saharan Africans. Here’s more from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.
The “Out of Africa” theory is the most widely accepted model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans. It proposes a “single origin” of Homo sapiens in Africa, which then allegedly populated the rest of the world by replacing all other hominins and mutating or evolving into the various races that comprise modern day humanity. This presentation provides a counter-argument. Here’s more from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.
Call Me Stormy is launching a new five-week series called The Heavens Opened Above, exploring long-suppressed theories about the origins of the human race. We will have new installments weekly in the series every Sunday morning, starting tomorrow, and running through Jan. 2.
Just to whet your appetite for what’s to come, today we’ll explore a few of the concepts and characters running throughout this series.
Much hinges on the Anunnaki. Who or what were they? They were early-day gods of ancient cultures within the Middle East, among them, the Sumerians, Assyrians and the Babylonians. But were these actual gods or outer space aliens who came to Earth to mine gold and possibly other precious metals?
This is a thread of investigation central to our series. We’ll explore not only these strange beings, but also the theory that they actually launched the human race.
You see, they needed gold but they did not want to mine it themselves. So they used slaves. The first of these slaves were primitive Earthling creatures. Eventually, the theory goes, they took the DNA of these creatures, like Homo Erectus, and grafted in some of their own genes to form a new, more intelligent and malleable species –Homo Sapiens — the human race!
Tomorrow, we’ll take an in-depth look at strands of these theories developed by the late Azerbaijani author Zecharia Sitchin. Today, we offer a broader overview from the Ancient Astronaut Archive called Evidence Of The Anunnaki.
Modern humans, or homo sapiens, are the only living species in their genus, but history teaches us that several other species of ancient humans have existed. Take the Denisovans, whose remains were found in a Siberian cave in 2008. Geneticists sequenced their genome and it was revealed they evolved from an unknown species with dark skin, brown eyes and brown hair, unlike their Neanderthal cousins. They are believed to have gone completely extinct. Hear about nine other mysterious extinct human species in this edition of Hybrid Librarian.
