400,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Discovered In Mazandaran (Iran)

Mehr News ^ | 6-8-2005

[Colofornian]

400,000 years.. do tell... Humans are suckers for a good story.. always have been.. 400,000 years,?, WHAT MONTH.?..

If they're such good scientists and are able to verify such ages, why are these media figures always given in such round numbers? Why never 402,750 years ago? Why 57,250 years ago on other findings? It's always these multiple zeroes, which only confirm that they are the broadest of estimators to begin with.

[dread78645]

Calico : A 200,000 Year Old Site In The Americas?

I was under the impression that "tools" found at Calico were naturally made.

[Colofornian]

Researcher investigates early Home Depot

And they know it was such because the Flintstones was scientifically -- if loosely -- based upon our earliest entrepreneurs as extrapolated by the scientific community.

[Colofornian]

I was under the impression that "tools" found at Calico were naturally made.

I was under the impression that just about all of these so-called "finds" were the result of Time and Natural Forces at work.

[SGCOS]

Tom Cruise said they were left here by the Thetans.

[crickets]

[papertyger]

What makes a stone a tool and not a rock broken in half?

"Craftsman" label?

[Redleg Duke]

Two battery powered drills and a saber saw?

[Redleg Duke]

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

[Colofornian]

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

An unrepentant, hell-bound boomer about to go "boom!" when it meets eternity.

[ASA Vet]

Thank you for another interesting thread.

[hosepipe]

[ Why never 402,750 years ago? Why 57,250 years ago on other findings? It's always these multiple zeroes, which only confirm that they are the broadest of estimators to begin with. ]

To WoW the rubes.. you know to inspire them..
Science fiction does not HAVE to be ALL bull sperm..
Thats what inspires them.. a little fact fortified with some story telling..

Fodder for the human mind to evolve great swelling tales of prime evil exploits..
Comes from watching too much pBS I think.. or 1,000,000 years B.C. (the movie)..
Good movie to..

What happened to all those that thought Marcus Welby was a REAL DOCTOR.?.
They became "scientists"... when they grew up.. but probably flunked out of Med. school.. Jurassic Parkettes.. dancing to some fiddlers tune.. occasionally showing the hash marks on their undies when they kick too high..

[Redleg Duke]

Close, but actually, it is called a "stick".

[null and void]

Timbers and motes, my FRiend, timbers and motes...

[gcruse]

Acheulean - One Million Years of Stasis

[Adder]

"Craftsman" label?

That and the Bob Villa tape found close by....

[An.American.Expatriate]

Question: If I find a rock today which is n years old and make it into a tool and, 1000 years from now, someone discovers and dates the tool - how old is the tool??

[reg45]

Diidnt they tell us the Clovis was the 1st tool?

Clovis was the first tool discovered in North or South America. Tools predated that in Eurasia and Africa. The 10,000 years shows when humans arrived in the western hemisphere from Eurasia and Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Multiregionalism ping. :')

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[SunkenCiv]

Some photos of prehistoric stone axes and tools:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/axe/

[Eaker]

Good question!!