100,000-Year Old Knife Discovered In Iran

Press TV ^ | 7-29-2007

[blam]

100,000-year old knife discovered in Iran

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:04:58

Iranian and Korean archeologists have discovered a 100,000-year-old civilization in the city of Roudbar, located in the north of Iran.

Six Iranian archeologists in cooperation with nine Korean archeologists undertook a discovery project in the northern province of Iran around 10 days ago.

The archeologists could unearth a stone tool comparable to a knife made of stone. The experts estimated the stone knife must date back at least 100 thousand years.

According expert finding a knife in an archeological site is a sign of existence of a civilization in that area.

The archeologists are to continue the task till August 16 in the ancient cities of Roudbar, Roudsar and Siahkal, IRINN reported.

[blam]

Sounds like someone made a press release before they gathered their thoughts or a lot of evidence/data for such claims.

[blam]

GGG Pings.

[NonValueAdded]

Slicing throats as far back as then, huh?

[null and void]

Darn you! I was going to say that!

[I_like_good_things_too]

Yeah, I also was wondering who might have been offending allah.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. This 100,000 year old knife story is edgy. If we could ask the excavator, hilt tell us that the age is just an estimate. Also that the government will execute him if he doesn't announce his finds with some hyperbole.

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[NonValueAdded]

You can have chopping off heads or honor killings; those categories are still available :)

[Defiant]

Iranians weren’t in Iran back then. Iranian tribes arrived around 4-5000 years ago. So the throat slitters who made this knife 100,000 years ago could have been anything from American Indians (arrived North America maybe 40,000 years ago), aborigines, or the predecessors of the inhabitants of Sweden.

[Canali]

100k is way to long. I think they added a zero.

[Issaquahking]

Iranian and Korean archeologists have discovered a 100,000-year-old civilization in the city of Roudbar, located in the north of Iran.

I call BS...

No one, I repeat, can hold south Korean hostages that long....

[CutePuppy]

OK, I am not a big science guy... can someone explain, does that mean that we can't bomb them into the stone age now? Would we be considered major looters if we do? If so, it's a very timely "discovery".

[NonValueAdded]

maybe they left instructions

[wardaddy]

i did not think there were humanoids capable for forging knives that far back

[garyhope]

The Swiss were making and exporting knives THAT early? Clever, those Swiss.

[isom35]

soon to be the plot of an episode of CSI: Roudbar.

[wardaddy]

the most common figure is only 14-15,000 years ago is it not?

for Mongoliod raced peoples crossing the Bering bridge?

[Jay Howard Smith]

The Swiss were making and exporting knives THAT early? Clever, those Swiss.

Nah....Probably one of our Special Forces guy who chiseled one out on a moments notice....... :>)

[claudiustg]

It was a Buck 110 prototype.

[mamelukesabre]

Iran allows such scientific discovery? I thought everything before mohammed was “the age of ignorance” or some such, and was not to be discussed. Isnt’ that why the muslims stripped the pyramids of their facing stones and defaced statues(the sphinx) and artifacts and blew up statues in afghanistan?

[blam]

"the most common figure is only 14-15,000 years ago is it not?"

Nah. Take this Journey Of Mankind and see that there's a group arriving at Meadowcroft (Pennsylvania) 25,000 years ago.