It is more beautiful than practical, though. I would not want to set it down next to my keyboard.
Since they were men and were living in caves, yes. The early stone age (paleolithic) times ended about 10,000 years ago and the new stone age (neolithic) period started about 7000 years ago. (7000-10,000 was predictably enough the mesolithic period). So these artifacts would be placed towards the end of the old Stone Age and on the cusp of the Middle Stone Age.
I'm still waiting for the first Geico caveman posting.
It is more beautiful than practical, though. I would not want to set it down next to my keyboard.
“...first Geico caveman posting.”
Very funny.
Finding pottery doesn’t surprise me at all. Not finding more of it does.
Truth is, 15,000 years ago sea level was about 300 to 400 feet lower than today’s level. The Persian Gulf was all dry land as was most of the continental shelf around southern Asia. The Indonesian Archipelago was mostly dry land as well. The ancestors of today’s Australian Aborigines traveled by boat to Australia 45,000 years ago. It seems to me that Europe, which was mostly covered with thick ice packs, was far from the centers of human developement.
Large stone constructions, buildings including pyramids, have been discovered under the sea in the Indian Ocean 30+ kilometers off the southwest and southeast coasts of India.
During the Ice Age any advanced human civilizations would have been on or near the equator and located along the coastlines. Of course, they were all flooded when the ice sheets began melting. Same thing happened to settlements that had been located in what is now the Enlish Channel. Where humans live today was far past the frontier of where humans appear to have lived 15,000 to 45,000 years ago.
I'm still waiting for the first Geico caveman posting.
;-)