Re: MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL (A human skull as old as coal!)

Pan of Anthrox (paninaro@tnp.com)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:22:29 -0500

TJ wrote:
>
> Jukka Korpela wrote:
> >
> > edconrad@prolog.net (Ed Conrad) writes:
> >
> > > The WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL, unquestionably, is
> > > a petrified human skull embedded in a boulder which was discovered
> > > between anthracite veins in Carboniferous strata near Shenandoah, Pa.
> >
> > I suppose no-one is fool enough to take this kind of scrap seriously,
> > but just in case...: If this kind of "news" had any truth in them,
> > and especially if they were unquestionable, we would certainly have
> > read about them in reputable scientific magazines - which would really
> > struggle for the right to publish such revolutionary reports before
> > their competitors.
> >
> > Yucca
> Speaking of human remains...Remember the freeze-dried bronze-age man
> found in the Alps a few years back. PBS did a once over lightly special
> on him. I assume much of the research has been done, but where can I
> find an account of the 'findings' on this guy? Any good books out, or
> articles? With near-morbid fascination of the very old, tj

i saw a book on it at a Barnes and Nobles bookstore in new York City.
One does exist.. i know that!

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