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Researchers Unearth 3-Million-Year-Old Tools
Discover Magazine (via MSN.com) ^ | 20 February 2023 | Joshua Rapp Learn

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: africa; flintknapping; godsgravesglyphs; homapeninsula; joshuarapp; lakevictoria; oldowantechnology; paleontology
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1 posted on 02/20/2023 8:57:11 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

If they are metric I can’t use them.


2 posted on 02/20/2023 9:00:34 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
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To: zeestephen

3 million years?! Using tools?!


3 posted on 02/20/2023 9:00:52 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: zeestephen

Must be Craftsman or Snap-On - or they wouldn’t have lasted that long.


4 posted on 02/20/2023 9:01:59 PM PST by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: Az Joe

"Awwh! Awwh! Awwh!"

5 posted on 02/20/2023 9:03:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: zeestephen

Hogwash. Prove it. It took three million years to get to six billion people? nonsense. Do the math.


6 posted on 02/20/2023 9:03:29 PM PST by Fungi
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To: zeestephen

Damn…. I’m always misplacing my tools!


7 posted on 02/20/2023 9:03:35 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: dfwgator

Classic! Thanks.


8 posted on 02/20/2023 9:07:24 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: zeestephen

I call bullshit on this.


9 posted on 02/20/2023 9:08:53 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv

assuming homo-anything created these is a theory I might consider however unlikely it is.


10 posted on 02/20/2023 9:09:32 PM PST by algore
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


11 posted on 02/20/2023 9:09:59 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Fungi
We kept on dying.

This is the first time in history where an excess of food is considered a problem.

Don't get used to it.

12 posted on 02/20/2023 9:13:01 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Az Joe
3 million years?! Using tools?!

They could tell by the stash of 10mm sockets.

13 posted on 02/20/2023 9:15:26 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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To: zeestephen

Are they still under warranty if they are lost or break ?


14 posted on 02/20/2023 9:18:14 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: zeestephen
Australopithecus.


15 posted on 02/20/2023 9:21:13 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Same look in his eye/expression as the Resident.


16 posted on 02/20/2023 9:23:45 PM PST by small farm girl (....)
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To: Fungi
In past years, infant mortality was horrible.

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".

17 posted on 02/20/2023 9:25:14 PM PST by Tellurian (Your phone is your cattle tag.)
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To: zeestephen

First feinstein didn’t know she was retiring now they buried her before she was dead? Wow..


18 posted on 02/20/2023 9:30:31 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: Tellurian
Teething and bowel complaint, 28

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.

19 posted on 02/20/2023 9:35:16 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: zeestephen

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


20 posted on 02/20/2023 9:56:21 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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