Posted on 02/20/2023 8:57:11 PM PST by zeestephen
Ancient tools, buried for millions of years in Kenya, may be the oldest example yet of our ancestors' technological prowess. The tools, recently discovered on the Homa Peninsula in Lake Victoria, are now the earliest known examples of Oldowan technology — stretching its known start date back by as many as 400,000 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If they are metric I can’t use them.
3 million years?! Using tools?!
Must be Craftsman or Snap-On - or they wouldn’t have lasted that long.
"Awwh! Awwh! Awwh!"
Hogwash. Prove it. It took three million years to get to six billion people? nonsense. Do the math.
Damn…. I’m always misplacing my tools!
Classic! Thanks.
I call bullshit on this.
assuming homo-anything created these is a theory I might consider however unlikely it is.
Ping
This is the first time in history where an excess of food is considered a problem.
Don't get used to it.
They could tell by the stash of 10mm sockets.
Are they still under warranty if they are lost or break ?
Same look in his eye/expression as the Resident.
This is an example from a small Utah newspaper of 1873, where with 71 deaths for the month, 54 were children:
"Here is the mortuary report for September:
"Males, 42; females, 29.
Of these, adults, 17; children, 54.
"Causes of death as reported:
"Teething and bowel complaint, 28; brain disease, 8; typhoid and scarlet fever, 6;
consumption, 5; lung disease, 4; convulsions, 2; stillborn, 2; suicide, 2;
old age, 1; injuries received by a fall, 1; accidental poisoning, 1; aphthæ, 1;
pleurisy, 1; croup, 1; whooping cough, 1; heart disease, 1; diptheria, 1;
lead poisoning, 1; marasmus, 1; not reported, 3;
total interments, 71".
First feinstein didn’t know she was retiring now they buried her before she was dead? Wow..
Colic? I have read where colicky babies tended to be on the autism spectrum. I wonder if advances in dealing with colic over the years allowed for more and more autistic babies to make it into adulthood.
Why must FR support MSN?
Here is the actual article and photos.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/researchers-unearth-3-million-year-old-tools
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