ENTRY 1
3,000,000 BCE Overview of Hominid Evolution Including Dark Mothers and Later Migrations
INTRODUCTORY CITATIONS
Emergence of Human Evolution.
One African Dark Mother.
Three Million Years Ago.
In South Africa,
an ancient hominin stumbled onto a red jasperite pebble
weathered in such a way as to resemble a face.
He or she was mesmerized enough to make the stone a keepsake,
carrying it back to a home base several miles away,
where it was found by modern researchers.
Paleolithic hominins also had a penchant for collecting
fossilized coral, snails and shellfish.
(ARSL: 20.)
Ancient Symbolic Images.
A powerful mental heuristic design
to conjure a particular emotion,
a memory, an idea.
Rather than directly changing the world around us,
symbols change the way we perceive it.
(ARSL: 20.)
Migrations.
From their African homeland, humans have colonized
all continents and inhabitable islands,
from seashores to alpine mountains,
from high–latitude arctic tundra
to tropical deserts and forests.
(DH: 192.)
Single Species.
Today, the idea that all humans
belong to a single species is taken for granted,
and kinshipping is still used
to mark the outer boundaries of humankind.
(DH: 32.)
One Human Race.
According to geneticist, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
‘in the DNA, there is one human race,
and it originated in Africa.’
(AO: 1-2.) (PB; GE; GPL; GHD; HGHG; DEHE.)
KhoiSan, Namibia.
“We know there were multiple dispersals out of Africa,
but we can [now] trace our ancestry back to a single one.”
Joshua M. Akey.
(HWG: A1.)
African Dark Mother.
Not only were these true human Africans
the first to sail and use technology
but they also appear to have been the first
to venerate the African dark mother.
(RGS.)
Human History.
Migration across great distances
is one of the fundamental processes
of human history.
(DH: 192.)
Cradle of Humankind.
Primary locations include the
Gregory Rift Valley in East Africa
and the southern caves in the high veldt or veld.
(See below.)
Africa-Asia.
Out of Africa
vs.
Out of Asia.
(FDH: BPE.)
ENTRY 1 GODDESS SITES AND ARTIFACT IMAGE COLLECTIONS
GSA IMAGE REFERENCES
Black Meteorite
Location NYC Natural History Museum
Black Meteorite
Location NYC Natural History Museum
LUCY NORTH AFRICA