Claim CC021:
A skull fragment from the Andalusia region of Spain, originally hailed in
1983 as the oldest human fossil from Europe, was most likely a skull
fragment from a four-month-old donkey.
Source:
Gish, Duane T., 1985. Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record,
El
Cajon, CA: Creation-Life Publishers, p. 190.
Response:
- There is not enough of the fossil to make its identity clear. It is
still uncertain whether the fragment is hominid or equine. It is a
misrepresentation to call it misidentified when there was never a
consensus on its identification in the first place. If not for its
importance as possibly the oldest European human, the fragment would
receive little attention.
Links:
Foley, Jim, 2001. Creationist arguments: Orce Man.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_orce.html
created 2004-1-9
