Handy man and murder most foul...
In the run up to revealing the new finds and potential new species, Dr Leakey had been very circumspect, avoiding controversy at every potential pitfall.
Everything was going great until the Q & A portion of the press conference. Perhaps it was the spotlight and all the attention that caused Leakey to misstep or perhaps he was just having some fun with the journalists. It's hard to say but when asked what caused the hole in the skull that had just been revealed Leakey replied:
"I think we can take it for granted that the child was hit on the head by a blunt instrument. It was murder most foul"
With this statement it was as if he had made a pronouncement on the longest running cold case of all time, one spanning many hundreds of thousands of years. The press lapped it up, The British scientific establishment was not amused.
The London Times reported:
British anthropologists were left wondering during the weekend what new consideration of evidence had led Dr L.S.B. Leakey to bring in a verdict of murder, hundreds of thousands of years after the event"
The usual storm ensued...
Meanwhile Leakey would be plotting to add insult to the small matter of "the murder most foul" injury. He was insisting that the new species be class as homo and not australopithicene He wanted this new species to be the first tool maker and in his opinion anything like tool uses could only be a decidedly "human" or homo trait.
Great post and this reminds me of the documentary "Becoming Human" because I was fascinated by that series.
I didn't know that we humans shared the world with and had ancestors from so many different kinds of humans or near humans such as the australopithicene (bi pedal apes) and homo (human) lineages.
Great post and find =)
I actually never thought about that either, but it makes sense if you think about it.
Makes you really wonder how far back this goes. Or how far it will go in the millennia to come.
This is so lovely.
Hope I got hand on some of those researchers journals.
Nice things unwrapping little by little.
Humans is just too talented
Maybe it was just a joke, about the blunt blow on the head.
this could be an ancient human forensic material.
I guess he wasnt really fully prepared for the interview or he was just kidding around... But all the same he made a great discovery
Of being guilty the defendant who could do thousands of years later? Claim that they were too savage to reason even with a child?
I don't see why they have to call it murder? Falling on a rock in that angle can also cause the same kinda crack on the skull. It is actually not possible to predict how it happened without the flesh. All we can be certain about is that the death was due to a blunt object
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