Posted on 05/20/2015 8:02:59 PM PDT by OK Sun
Finds Challenge Ideas about Who Were the First Toolmakers
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two rocks together to create a new technology.
The discovery is the first evidence that an even earlier group of proto-humans may have had the thinking abilities needed to figure out how to make sharp-edged tools. The stone tools mark “a new beginning to the known archaeological record,” say the authors of a new paper about the discovery, published today in the leading scientific journal Nature.
“The whole site’s surprising, it just rewrites the book on a lot of things that we thought were true,” said geologist Chris Lepre of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Rutgers University, a co-author of the paper who precisely dated the artifacts.
The tools ”shed light on an unexpected and previously unknown period of hominin behavior and can tell us a lot about cognitive development in our ancestors that we can't understand from fossils alone,” said lead author Sonia Harmand, of the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University and the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans, Homo sapiens, and our closest evolutionary ancestors. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at earth.columbia.edu ...
If the universe is 10,000 years old, how come they keep finding these millions of years old objects?
Ping.
I can tell them something which sheds all the light they need on the subject: The Holy Bible, the Book of Genesis. I really feel sorry for these people.
Luke 13:3 & 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Just a thought, I wonder about their dating accuracy.
Not being sarcastic.
Bingo! One thing that is never included is how the dates were arrived at as no explanation is given. Welcome to the “church” of evolution. The Church was the prime target evolutionists rebelled against, but lo and behold, they have erected their own “church,” more intolerant, and based on more faith then the true church, only now you are forced to accept the new religion, or else you are stupid, foolish, and ridiculed—no proof or evidence is given, just accept it. My how the tide has turned. Evil fools.
It’s not so much that what they find is millions of years old, because there is no way to carbon date anything over 50,000 years old.
It’s a bit of circular reasoning. For evolution to work, it takes millions and billions of years. Therefore, what they find is going to be millions of years old if it’s primitive in nature.
The theory of evolution doesn’t take into account the idea that the primitive man is really an unevolved ape or the stone tools just might be evidence of recovery from worldwide disasters.
” One thing that is never included is how the dates were arrived at as no explanation is given.”
Obviously you didn’t read the article ....
“By tracing the variations in the polarity of the samples, they dated the site to 3.33 million to 3.11 million years.”
Nonsense.
Happy?
“Nonsense.”
At least we know that you had to go back and read the article to see that you were wrong.
“Hey, we are Free Republic, not a venue to insult anyone, just to say they are mistaken, to put it lightly.”
If you had made a reasonable reply instead of “Nonsense” you may have received a different reply from me.
Obviously the items were being transported by time-traveling inter-multiverse craft, and they had to make an emergency stop on the 3rd rock of an inconsequential star in one of the newer universes.
Due to mass-to-thrust issues, something had to be left behind...and ancient stone tools of no particular value were chosen.
The science is nonsense, you missed that.
I stand with Texas. Does that make us "we"?
“the dating here? Nonsense. I would elaborate here but it will fall on deaf ears. Hey, we are Free Republic, not a venue to insult anyone”
Then WTH with your “Evil fools.” ...
“Amazing how something so simple can become nothing it was intended. “
hmmm. You came on a science thread with your insults and you say you never intended for it to amount to anything?
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