Now there was Herto. As the broad, heavy-browed male skull emerged from its matrix of sand, it proved the perfect face for the out of Africa theory.
但在赫托村的发现提供了最直接的证据,这具头骨来自于一位宽额粗眉的男性,它的出土有力证明了人类起源于非洲的理论。
In the short walk from Herto to Daka, however, something tangible of our humanness had definitely been stripped away too—notably, several hundred cubic centimeters of gray matter.
虽然达卡距离赫托并不是太远,但我们人性中的某些有形部分已经随着时光的回溯而被剥去了——尤其是大脑中那几百立方厘米的灰质部分。
The stone tools found at Herto represent a fairly sophisticated technology—but they are not that much different from tools 100, 000 years older or, for that matter, 100, 000 years younger.
在赫托遗址发现的石制工具虽代表了相当精良的制作工艺,但它们与10万年前更原始或更近代时期的工具相比,并没有太多的不同之处。
The Herto samples were analyzed by Paul Renne of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and in Bill Hart's lab at Miami University. The results gave an age of 160, 000 to 154, 000 years for the skull.
伯克利地质年代中心的保罗·雷恩和比尔·哈特在迈阿密大学的实验室分析了在赫托村发现的这些样品,鉴定结果显示头骨距今约为16万年前至15.4万年前之间。
Many of the mammal bones collected from Herto bear cut marks from stone tools. It is impossible to say, however, whether the people were hunting the animals or scavenging the kills of other predators.
从赫托收集的很多哺乳动物骨骼上都有石制工具留下的切痕,但我们不知道这些动物是被赫托人猎杀的还是被其他食肉动物杀死后留给赫托人的残羹冷炙。
Many of the mammal bones collected from Herto bear cut marks from stone tools. It is impossible to say, however, whether the people were hunting the animals or scavenging the kills of other predators.
从赫托收集的很多哺乳动物骨骼上都有石制工具留下的切痕,但我们不知道这些动物是被赫托人猎杀的还是被其他食肉动物杀死后留给赫托人的残羹冷炙。
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