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If visitors to our planet in millions of years found fossils of a Homo sapiens and another great ape in an elaborate tomb, would they be able to prove which one built it? (cont.)

Allen Wright
Penzance, Cornwall, UK

Â鶹´«Ã½ often has articles about proto-hominoid species and these seem to provoke a good deal of interest. The latest discoveries about the Denisovans shows that archaeologists have the ability to recognise which human groups and species were associated with which sites.

The interesting question is whether the alien visitors would have any kind of sociocultural interest in archaeology or whether…