Kow Swamp
Kow Swamp is an area in Victoria , Australia , in the central Murray River Valley, and is used by archaeologists as a collective name for the remains of more than 22 people. These people lived at different times, about 7,000 to 13,000 years ago.
They are robust in their morphology . In the early work on the remains of the skull were "the survival characteristics than Homo erectus to 10,000 years ago" ( survival of Homo erectus features in Australia until as recently as 10,000 years ago considered). Other scientists countered that the skulls had been artificially deformed as part of a cultural practice.
The remains of Kow Swamp were compared to the Mungo Man and Mungo Lady by Alan Thorne because of their robust morphology , as they have graceful properties. With this he tried to underpin the hypothesis of the multiregional origin of modern man , according to which man developed from Homo erectus in different parts of the world ; graceful and robust people in Australia are therefore descendants of two different waves of immigration from different descendants of Homo erectus . It is in contradiction to the widely recognized out-of-Africa theory of the spread of mankind today .
Individual evidence
- ^ AG Thorne et al.: Discoveries of Late Pleistocene man at Kow Swamp. In: Nature. 238, 1972, pp. 316–319, quoted from www-personal.une.edu.au ( memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ D. Brothwell: Possible evidence of a cultural practice affecting head growth in some late Pleistocene East Asian and Australasian populations. In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 2, 1975, pp. 75-77, cited from peterbrown-palaeoanthropology.net
Web links
- Peter Brown's Australian & Asian Anthropology Kow Swamp , accessed January 17, 2016