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Oldest Yet Known Metal Object Discovered in the Middle East
Live Scient ^
| August 22, 2104
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 08/22/2014 8:00:53 PM PDT by fatez
A copper awl is the oldest metal object unearthed to date in the Middle East. The discovery reveals that metals were exchanged across hundreds of miles in this region more than 6,000 years ago, centuries earlier than previously thought, researchers say.
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; history; letshavejerusalem
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To: cloudmountain
Milling about smartly wishing they could create aw(l)some awl’s
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:25:26 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: smokingfrog
We got surfboards, we got plenty of food. Life’s good.
Dude, what do you think is on the other side of that hill?
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:25:48 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: null and void
I’m not talking about myths. I’m every instant in time is frozen in amber. Somewhere.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:32:59 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: fatez
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:33:18 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: fatez
If a man went back in time to this era with nothing more than a common knife, he could form a tribe and then an army and then rule the world.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:35:46 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: fatez
They counted the beads but the “The area was a village from about 5100 B.C. to 4600 B.C., and was first discovered in A.D. 1950, with digs taking place from the end of the 1970s up to the present day” is just an estimate. Never mind, my “there you go again with the date” will not be accepted. Actually, this article was close to the truth, but not close enough. These writers should just admit they really don't know what the date was and leave it at that.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:39:22 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: CrazyIvan
Someday this awl will be yours.
The curtains?
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:40:06 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Kirkwood
There is a short story about that I read once. A man (somehow) was transported to 10’th century Iceland. He thought he would be king. But he was frustrated because he didn’t have access to the tools to make the tools he needed to make the stuff he knew how to make.
Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court” addressed this too.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:40:40 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: fatez
Obviously this tool was used by the woman to sew with in cloth,leather or both.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:42:09 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: DManA
Im not talking about myths. Im [talking about] every instant in time is frozen in amber. Somewhere. So am I.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:48:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: fatez
The second oldest thing was a pawn ticket for a copper awl.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:52:38 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
To: null and void
Ok, if you recommend it I’ll look up the Akashic records.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:53:32 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: DManA
There is a short story about that I read once. A man (somehow) was transported to 10th century Iceland. He thought he would be king. But he was frustrated because he didnt have access to the tools to make the tools he needed to make the stuff he knew how to make. Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early"
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:54:14 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
To: null and void
Ah, Edgar Cayce.
I don’t know what Edgar Cayce was. He was not a fraud. He was something. I have no idea what.
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posted on
08/22/2014 8:55:51 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Oztrich Boy
A man (somehow) was transported to 10th century Iceland.
Bing Crosby went to 5th century England ;)
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posted on
08/22/2014 9:01:55 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too late.)
To: Oztrich Boy
Sort of related - H.G. Wells “The Country of the Blind”
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posted on
08/22/2014 9:02:40 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: BigEdLB
You should read the book. It’s where Roosevelt got the phrase “A New Deal”.
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posted on
08/22/2014 9:03:45 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: cloudmountain
You have to watch Ancient Aliens on History 2. All of your questions will be answered.
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posted on
08/22/2014 9:04:13 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: fatez
38 posts and no photo of the awl’s owner.
To: Redcitizen; fatez; neverdem; narses; SoothingDave; SunkenCiv; cogitator; All; MHGinTN
The second oldest thing was a pawn ticket for a copper awl. Nah. Awl they had to do first was invent money!
THEN, the inventor could PAY for the pawn ticket to pay for the copper awl to pay the taxes to the head honcho who was demanding HE get paid for not breaking the head open of the guy who was going to pay the pawnbroker.
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posted on
08/22/2014 9:16:48 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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