Stone tools discovered made to a common design and template across thousands of kilometres in southern Africa.Photograph: Australian Museum
Stone tools discovered made to a common design and template across thousands of kilometres in southern Africa.Photograph: Australian Museum
Where are the toothpick and scissors?
So use is the determining factor and not shared knowledge. Shared knowledge is the result of intermingling...not the catalyst for ideas.
“... early humans across the continent made the stone tool in exactly the same shape, using the same template,...”
The authors of this study have a very loose definition of “exactly”.
Everyone knew SW and everyone had a 3D printer too
Meanwhile, the time machine guy is checking his pockets.
The question that really baffles archaeologists is why the big exit from Africa, which took place 60-70,000 years ago and involved the ancestors of everyone who lives outside Africa today, was so successful when previous excursions out of the continent were not...
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Because they were, but it would go against standard group think, cost too many their careers build on it, trying to explain the sites that date back over 320,000 years ago in South America and elsewhere.
I once found a rock similar to B at my house in Oregon. I live in the Cascade Mtns. foothills, on top of the end of a basalt ridge running west out of the mountains. Ideal corridor for hunters. One side was obviously chipped away, making it still sharp.
“Because the people across southern Africa all chose to make the tools look the same, it indicates they must have been socially connected...”
Or they had one guy hawking his tools and he moved around a lot. “Get yer red hot Swiss Army Knife here!” and evidently he belonged to the Swiss Army, (or at least stole their idea for a knife) which was really unusual because up until now we thought Switzerland didn’t exist till
the middle ages, 1291 they say.
Archeologists make great fiction writers.
They have a fertile imagination. From a tooth they can extrapolate how big the animal was, what it had for dinner, the color of hair or fur, social habits...
I think I missed the photo of the stone fork...
Where the mentality come about that ancient or primitive meant stupid?????
These archeologists are so full of themselves.
Oh C’mon man... Them are ROCKS! Communicated with each other? Hey, look a rock. Yeah man, we got rocks too.
I found a hand ax on my property in New England. I took it to a local university and the archeology department took a look and estimated it’s origin at about 8500 years ago.
Several had said that the Clovis Point was the Swiss Army Knife of the early Americas. It was much more useful than just dispatching Mammoths.
