So upon reading a recent article talking about the discovery of a 160,000 intact skull along with 9 other fragments, I had to ask myself "Where are the Skullz?"

You see, I started thinking about the math of skullz. Lets nominally take the period from 10,000 years ago to this find, 160,000 years ago. That's 150,000 years.

Now, without sticking my neck out, I think I can assume that life was more difficult then than now. So I am going to go out on a limb and set the life expectancy to 30 years. So a generation would be about 15 years.

So in 150,000 years, we are looking at 10,000 generations. How many people were alive in a generation? I would think that there would at least be 10,000 humans alive in each generation. Anything less would seem to have the species on the brink of extinction.

So lets do the math. 10,000 generations x 10,000 humans alive per generation. That's 100,000,000 humans who lived between 10,000 and 160,000 years ago.

So where are these 100 million skullz?

Buried deep from ice ages? Burnt in crematory ceremonies? Crushed into fragments too small to identify? I dont know.

But there are not enough skullz that we've found to account for the required number of peeps.

--Grue