Posted on 04/07/2008 2:58:43 PM PDT by decimon
Pingaroo
I've been wondering where that set of Snap-ons was!
Maitland Parker holds a 35,000 year old chirt used for cutting. Photo: Tony Mcdonough
“piece of flint the size of a small cell phone”
“Can you hear me now, Mate?”
The Saber Tooth Never Caught On
I see a legalized monopoly on gambling template in the Aborigines' future.
35-40 thousand years of continuous culture? I Like what they did with the place!
I think people may have had more sense 35,000 years ago.
Having a continuous culture may sound good but it means having little to spur innovation.
As if there were any doubts that they were there first. Unfortunately, primitive tribes always fall to more modern cultures. True in America and true in Australia.
A cell phone that small would be useless. Is that Ben Stiller? Probably also useless.
I have hand tools that are so old that they have the ancient inscription ‘Made in USA’ on them.
Probably forgeries.
“35-40 thousand years of continuous culture.”
Definitely not the ten lost tribes of Israel. We would have whipped that island into shape, opened up a good tourism industry, and found a way to make Kangaroo a kosher meal.
So? You Wanna buy a boomerang, boychek?
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Thanks decimon. Could have sworn we've had a topic about this, guess not. |
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I have a box labled 'unusual tools'. Most were left to me by my dad. Many I don't know what they're for.
Central Australian Aboriginal traditions were disintegrating rapidly when my father took photographs and cinefilm on a camel expedition from Hermannsburg Mission to Mount Liebig in 1933. This was at the end of the frontier period, when there were still isolated groups of Aborigines yet to experience non-Aboriginal contact. These people were of enormous interest as the remnants of a pre-settlement culture...
If I'm reading this correctly then these finds would be more clincher than discovery of the longevity of aboriginal culture. There could have been any number of threads on the topic.
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