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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 29, 2012 7:01:05 GMT
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Post by smjjames on Oct 29, 2012 7:02:53 GMT
Okay, uh, despite three people posting a thread, I think this one is first.
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 29, 2012 7:05:45 GMT
Okay, uh, despite three people posting a thread, I think this one is first. Agreed. Didn't Cro-Magnon have combs? Jeez, Jones. Letting yourself go.
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Post by alexh on Oct 29, 2012 7:06:40 GMT
Immortality. So easy, a caveman can do it.
(I have been waiting for weeks to say this)
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Post by smjjames on Oct 29, 2012 7:06:55 GMT
Anyways, this completely shatters that graph someone made because its off the charts and who knows how far back this is.
Also, are these the long horned bison, ancestors of today's bison?
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Post by tiercel on Oct 29, 2012 7:07:24 GMT
Looks like a moment where Jones is more involved in (proto)human society than we've ever seen her. She must have had *pretty high* standing in the tribe for being able to flip prey to the waiting spears of the other hunters like that.
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Post by OrzBrain on Oct 29, 2012 7:08:24 GMT
Cro-Magnon? Really? So... That means that (A): Jones is not human, and (B): The human form as personified in Jones predates the existence of humans. Right? That's... very... weird.
She must be some kind of time traveler.
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Post by MoonEcho on Oct 29, 2012 7:08:39 GMT
I can't help but admire that neat trim on her fur skirt. Even way back then she was quite stylish.
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Post by rafk on Oct 29, 2012 7:08:46 GMT
I think everyone might have been refreshing for this one!~
OK, so this could be the start of the Legend of Stone... in which one Cro-Magnon learned the secret of stopping an on-rushing mammoth... and because the tribe came to believe that she was made of stone, she actually became made of stone. Doomed to walk the earth!
Or we could have one more flashback... but I don't know. I think this is it. This is the first time we've seen Jones belong somewhere, pre-Court. And even in the Court she's really above the fray rather than part of it.
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Post by thatkid on Oct 29, 2012 7:11:04 GMT
She must be some kind of time traveler. I have been saying this for god knows how long.
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Post by secondofnone on Oct 29, 2012 7:11:23 GMT
Cro-Magnon? Really? So... That means that (A): Jones is not human, and (B): The human form as personified in Jones predates the existence of humans. Right? That's... very... weird. She must be some kind of time traveler. Cro-Magnon was a culture, not a species. The Cro-Magnon people were the same as you and me. It does, however, mean Jones is upwards of twenty-five thousand years old.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 29, 2012 7:12:23 GMT
Cro-Magnon? Really? So... That means that (A): Jones is not human, and (B): The human form as personified in Jones predates the existence of humans. Right? That's... very... weird. She must be some kind of time traveler. Uh, cro magnon ARE early modern human, so she doesn't predate the existence of humans, yet.....
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Post by smjjames on Oct 29, 2012 7:14:15 GMT
Does anybody notice a slight hint of a smile there?
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Post by stigand on Oct 29, 2012 7:14:44 GMT
At this point I'm imagining monkey Jones, then squirrel Jones, then primoridal-mouse Jones, all the way back to amoeba Jones, which came from a giant Jones-shaped meteor, which is the titular Stone.
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 29, 2012 7:16:34 GMT
Jones looks kind of Euroracial what with the blonde hair and all, or else Asian, but this would have been before human racial difference. I would have expected the Cro-Magnons to have darker skin and hair.
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Post by arf on Oct 29, 2012 7:17:55 GMT
I'm already thinking Wednesday will give us Jones among the Neanderthals (or the Heidelbergensis for the picky)
That would start the headscratching!!
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Post by noone3 on Oct 29, 2012 7:19:56 GMT
For the last six years reading this comic I've never expected any character going around topless. . . . And now it is Jones.
My mind flipped.
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 29, 2012 7:20:01 GMT
Immortality. So easy, a caveman can do it. (I have been waiting for weeks to say this)I think in the back of our minds we were all waiting to crack out our cro-magnon jokes.
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Post by Eversist on Oct 29, 2012 7:20:03 GMT
Jones looks kind of Euroracial what with the blonde hair and all, or else Asian, but this would have been before human racial difference. I would have expected the Cro-Magnons to have darker skin and hair. Well, I doubt she is a Cro-Magnon. For the last six years reading this somic I've never expected any character going around topless. . . . And now it is Jones. My mind flipped. So glad someone commented on this; I was waiting for it.
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Post by arf on Oct 29, 2012 7:20:16 GMT
...actually, I think H. Heidelbergensis was a predecessor of H. Neanderthalis, not a common ancestor.
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Post by woppy on Oct 29, 2012 7:23:06 GMT
Er....
Jones is an alien?
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Post by arf on Oct 29, 2012 7:25:12 GMT
Jones topless... this was foreshadowed in 'Divine' when Zimmy was rummaging around in Annie's dreams. A bush prevented us from seeing whether she had a fur skirt on that occasion.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 29, 2012 7:27:00 GMT
You know, being this ancient, jones is a real repository of long dead languages all the way back to the root ancestors of modern languages.
For the location, the long horned bison lived in Eruasia and North America, so we could be almost anywhere, if she was in North America at this time, she probably knew Coyote when he was almost literally a puppy (despite being ageless).
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Post by leiodaahs on Oct 29, 2012 7:29:01 GMT
Wow. I think Jones is absolutely beautiful here.
Is that weird? That might be weird.
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Post by arf on Oct 29, 2012 7:30:25 GMT
Jones of the Endless? (Divinity??)
OK I'm done!
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 29, 2012 7:40:40 GMT
Cro-Magnon? Really? So... That means that (A): Jones is not human, and (B): The human form as personified in Jones predates the existence of humans. Right? That's... very... weird. She must be some kind of time traveler. It's still a bit early to say that. We're finally in the right age for the venus figurines. I think the next jump will be the early days of modern humans, and will contain the answer. [edit] Also, click here if you want to learn about the Aurochs from the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. [/edit]
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Post by guyy on Oct 29, 2012 7:50:49 GMT
I bet that primitive mega-buffalo wasn't expecting that.
So, this means that whatever Jones is, she does have to eat. Or she just enjoys laying the smackdown on some buffalo.
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Post by krael on Oct 29, 2012 7:54:42 GMT
you don't say... Interesting that the other cavies don't seem to care indeed. In the middle ages Jones would have more troube with being usefull for the collective I guess. stunning page, as always
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 29, 2012 8:16:50 GMT
Cro-Magnon? Really? So... That means that (A): Jones is not human, and (B): The human form as personified in Jones predates the existence of humans. Right? That's... very... weird. She must be some kind of time traveler. 1. Cro-magnon were human. "Being the oldest known modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) in Europe," they actually are the known ancestors of the modern human. 2. This quite much killed the alchemist theory. Too bad. 3. So, I think it is legit to walk from pre-historic France to the freaking Gobi desert. 4. I don't think we can plausibly go any further in pre-history than this. We're already in time before 10000 BC, so I think we're at the borders of light skin colour. Which also means that if she has born she should be born cro-magnon. 5. I found this amusing in Wiki: "Cro-Magnons were robustly built and powerful. The body was generally heavy and solid with a strong musculature." Haha. Mystery solved. Everything fits, the weight, the strength. She is just an average cro-magnon with a tad longer course of life. 6. The time-traveler theory is kind of nullified by the problem of covering her longevity and the change of name. It too considered for a while that perhaps there's a different Jones to each time, maybe she would be a bit like Phantom, but very clearly she has linearly lived through these millenia.
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Post by legion on Oct 29, 2012 8:20:11 GMT
These animals are most likely steppe wisents, ancient relative of bisons with much larger horns (but not directly ancestral to the two modern species), that were found in most of the northern hemisphere before being replaced by the antecessor of the modern species and going extinct ~13,000 years ago.
Other good candidates with these kinds of horns and this massive size include water buffaloes, asian buffaloes, and aurochs.
Edit: an even more look-alike would be the extinct long-horned bison (bison latifrons), but for this one there is a timing problem, as it lived only in North America and became extinct at the latest 20,000 years ago, much earlier that the generally accepted date for human settlement of the Americas (although if you go for less accepted dates but still with some credibility, it could work).
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