How An Entire City Was Lost In South Africa

How can a city be lost? An article in FOX NEWS had this headline: 

“Lost city in South Africa revealed in stunning digital images”

Karim Sadr, a controversial professor of Iranian descent, who works at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, said: “researchers have been hard at work (aren’t they always so described?) mapping and creating a digital reconstruction of part of the site.” Be careful, …. a digital creation means a computer was used to make-up an image. The city itself, supposedly 15 or so huts, is still lost. In other places some stones would be called some stones but in South Africa, a place where there was never ever a written language or a wheel and where fierce battles between fierce people actually happened and are still going, on a group of stones is very important.

Many people and a lot of evidence validates Southern and South Eastern Africa to be where humans first appeared on the planet. Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is where Mary and Louis Leakey who were not native to the area, made the most important discoveries about the beginnings of humans on the earth.

The entire human race seems to have evolved from Africa.
Homo habilis, probably the first early human species, occupied Olduvai Gorge approximately 1.9 million years ago (mya); then came a contemporary australopithecine, Paranthropus boisei, 1.8 mya, followed by Homo erectus, 1.2 mya. Our species Homo sapiens, which is estimated to have emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, is dated to have occupied the site 17,000 years ago.

The Olduvai Gorge site is significant in showing the increasing developmental and social complexities in the earliest humans, or hominins, largely revealed in the production and use of stone tools. Prior to tools, evidence of scavenging and hunting can be noted—highlighted by the presence of gnaw marks that predate cut marks—and of the ratio of meat versus plant material in the early hominin diet. The collecting of tools and animal remains in a centralized area is evidence of developing social interaction and communal activity. All these factors indicate an increase in cognitive capacities at the beginning of the period of hominids transitioning to hominin—that is, to human—form and behavior.

Unfortunately Olduvai is 2,300 miles from “the site of the new city” so, … well lets not be too quick to accept some stones on South Africa as a city.

Why Europe, China and India developed advanced civilizations while the stone city in South Africa didn’t is a mystery. In addition it can be asked if the Ferguson Effect is what destroyed the South African city centuries before say steel could be discovered there so two story buildings could be built thus saving stones for, perhaps to be used against the police in riots?? Just askin’.

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