A Translation of a German Press release From Usenet:
Ziegert is professor at the Hamburg University, having worked in Africa for decades. He has published his research and dicussed it with other German palaeolithic top researchers.
At the side of a former lake in what is now the central Sahara mighty layers of ashes were found, probably from the burning of reeds. A 14C date was tried for the ashes, there was no 14 C detected, meaning the layer is more than 70.000 years old. In the layers ostrich egg pearls were found by sieving (more than 40) and in situ in mud from the lake. The date for the oldest mudlayer with pearls is estimated at 200.000 years, when the lake was still open ( my hasty translation from:
http://tinyurl.com/2xy2ho
All the arguments can be found here:
Müller-Karpe, Herrmann, Karl Dietrich Adam, Thomas Bargatzky, Reinhard Bernbeck, Peter F. Biehl, Henri J. M. Claessen, Christoph Elsas, Lutz Fiedler, Miriam Noël Haidle, Svend Hansen, Winfried Henke, Joachim Herrmann, Christoph Huth, Heribert Illig, Rolf Löther, Hans Mohr, Felix Müller, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Heinz Jürgen Niedenzu, Thomas Terberger, Helmut Ziegert 2005: Geschichtlichkeit des paläolithischen Menschen. Fakten und Anschauungen. Erwägen Wissen Ethik 16/1,2005, 85-146.
Seems like "everyone in the world" will have a lot to talk when Ziegerts work has been translated into English, even though it may take a decade or so. With all the important mooring holes and runestones it will just have to wait. :-)
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Uwe Mueller
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