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Homo Erectus Finds Cause Mass Debate

Okay I overstate the importance. In fact I know it sounds rude if you have that turn of mind, but so goes the article. Part of the issue is, did the older species of mankind get to the new world? Well, they must have if they keep finding remains...

The evidence for earlier human habitation in the Americas, however scanty, is tantalizing. It includes:
_ A possible handscraper splotched with blood more than 34,000 years ago at Monte Verde in Chile.

_ Possible stone tools at a site in Brazil that is 40,000 to 50,000 years old.
_ A not-yet-published report of human remains dated as much as 28,000 years old near Puebla in central Mexico.
Most crucially, a majority of archaeologists are convinced that a second site at Monte Verde dates to at least 14,000 years ago — some 500 years before the land bridge from Asia opened more than 9,000 miles to the north.

The problem is it sets a new sunset date for the Homo Erectus in archaeology books.

And You Thought He Sleeps With The Fishes

The nasty little Genoese man who ushered in colonialism Christopher Columbus is back in the news: Some archaeologists are doing research into DNA and they thnk that Christopher Columbus may be buried in Spain and not the Dominican Republic as rivals argue his resting place.

The Dominican government would have to give permission to open the bronze urn
containing the bones. The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus
Lopez, holds the sole key to the urn and likely would influence any decision,
officials said.

It's a bit like runnin DNA tests on the Turin Shroud or something. :) I mean, what is he? A saint now?

El Duque Update

El Duque is hurting. He has taken on 2 losses as well. He may not be availble for the first rounds of the play-offs.

"I don't know when I will pitch," said Hernandez, who first felt fatigue in the shoulder last Monday night, a day before he was slated to start against the Twins at Yankee Stadium in a game that was rained out. Asked when he would at least play catch, El Duque said, "I don't know."

"It wasn't very good," GM Brian Cashman said of Hernandez' outing against the Blue Jays.

In the mean time, The Left Hand of Stupidity, a.k.a Kevin Brown is perhaps back in the mix for the post-season.

So, does Brown think he fits into the Yankees' plans as a starter?
"I didn't have any doubt from the start," Brown said. "Like everything else, it's been up and down."
Stottlemyre will wait to discuss with Torre what to do with Brown. El Duque's health will be a contributing factor.
"I don't know, we have to give it a thought," Stottlemyre said of Brown being one of the four starters. "It might make us consider it. I'm not sure. We'll have to see what
Joe says."

It's always a soap opera in the Bronx.

- Art Neuro