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Happy Holidays to those celebrating them :) Today, the day after xmas, my dad took my brother, his girlfriend and I on a long drive outside the city. We found ourselves in Sterkfontein and decided to go explore the caves (with the help of a trusty tour guide, a camera and flashlights of course!). Inside was absolutely amazing and we saw the site where they were still escavating the oldest and most complete skeleton ever found. Even older than Lucy by .5 million years. So there it was, the cradle of humanity- a breath taking, deceptive work of nature which will one day claim us back into the very blood of the earth.

December 26, 2002 | 4:12 PM Comments  0 comments

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Jedimike Michael Newton-McLaughlin
December 26, 2002 | 4:28 PM
neat...
You must have gone to the sites of Australopithecus africanus.... which are the only ones that I know of in Sterkfontein. Though I'm not sure what find they were referencing as for the .5 MY older... as far as I know, "Lucy" (or other gracile A. afarensis) are all 'older' than africanus forms.... though I could very much be wrong. It's a triffle and little manner..

your real message, for me, was "a breath taking, deceptive work of nature which will one day claim us back into the very blood of the Earth." - now that is an awesome quotation worth keeping. I think I will, if ya don't mind ;-)
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