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Giant Wooden Sculpture Unearthed In 1894 Found To Be Over 11,000 Years Old
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| 27 April 2018, 7:34 am EDT
| By Athena Chan
Posted on 04/27/2018 7:51:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:51:25 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:51:43 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
How can a sculpture be 5,935 years, three and half months older than the earth?
To: BenLurkin
Termites had been saving this for the end of the world.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:57:00 AM PDT
by
Retvet
(Retvete)
To: Blue House Sue
Created with the appearance of age.
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:58:23 AM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:58:34 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: Retvet
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posted on
04/27/2018 7:59:25 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: BenLurkin
Just because the wood is that old, doesn’t mean the sculpture is that old.
To: BenLurkin
At the time, the results were rather controversial and many scholars rejected the results, stating that hunter-gatherers couldn't possibly have created such a large statue, especially one with intricate carvings and designs. That's odd:
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:01:19 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
To: BenLurkin
I find most of that Ancient Aliens show to be silly but i did see one episode that really made me think. They showed what is required by our current technology to move a single stone that weighed some 50 tons or so IIRC to a site from the quarry to a location in LA some 50 miles away. The best we could do with our technology was it cost millions, required thousands of man hours, and took days. One unfinished stone. With the best modern technology.
When you look at those stones in South America that predate the Incas and think about it, as primitive as we would like to consider them they were able to accomplish something our economy would struggle to replicate today.
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:01:54 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Sacajaweau
Good point. But nobody would use an old log when there are thousands of new trees standing around.
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:03:14 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
This sentence gives me a headache.
Instead of revealing a much earlier date than the previous controversial findings, researchers dated the sculpture to be even older than previously dated at 11,600 years old.
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:04:50 AM PDT
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BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
To: BenLurkin
Of course they wood use an old log. Nothing new.
To: BenLurkin
perhaps the art of the hunter-gatherers possibly changed to cope with the new, unfamiliar world.As if those changes all occurred in the course of one generation or three.
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04/27/2018 8:06:30 AM PDT
by
arthurus
To: Sacajaweau
A breath of common sense
To: Sacajaweau
Exactly.
The tree may have been very old at the time it was carved....................I could carve a face on a redwood tree that’s over 2000 years old, but that wouldn’t make my carving 2000 years old....................
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:13:08 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: BykrBayb
Yes I saw that, too.
Dumb sentence structure..................
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:14:18 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: BenLurkin
Unless of course you have to fell one of those trees with a crude stone ax. Fallen standing dead tree would be much easier.
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posted on
04/27/2018 8:16:08 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
To: wastoute
“as primitive as we would like to consider them they were able to accomplish something our economy would struggle to replicate today”
One of the reasons we struggle to replicate it is because we aren’t primitive. We have been using technology like concrete so long (since the Roman era), that we hardly ever have any need to move huge stones. Instead we just make them in place.
The ancients that did move these stones regularly doubtless had a lot of simple tricks we have simply forgotten about because they weren’t needed for anything other than moving huge stones.
To: 4yearlurker
Well this is interesting question. Perhaps there are FReepers with experience in carving totem poles who can share their insights.
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04/27/2018 8:20:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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