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.
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!
I call bullshit on this.
assuming homo-anything created these is a theory I might consider however unlikely it is.
Ping
Are they still under warranty if they are lost or break ?
First feinstein didn’t know she was retiring now they buried her before she was dead? Wow..
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
I’m not buying it either.
If man was using tools 3 million years ago, he would have dominated the planet 2.994,000 years ago. No other species would have stood a chance against man with tools.
To clarify
The tools are actually stones that indicate chip marks that might have been the result of using one stone to strike the intended “tool stone” and knock chips away.
The “tool stones” were found at a depth, in a certain location where some belief of what the earthen layers represent, may indicate that 2 to 3 million years passed, before the discovery.
The age of anything in the story, is not apparently determined by carbon-dating.
The fact that volcanic and earthquake activity, in addition to weather storms plus erosion, will alter layers of earth causing un-expected order, is also not mentioned.
So they found Helen Thomas’s home office!
Were they stamped “Made in China?”
Agh! Zagmahg borrow flint and flaker. Never bring back.
We were raised as Roman Catholic. I began studying archaeology / anthropology, and am fascinated by how we figured out shhhtuff in the past. The Mayans tracked the planet Venus for over 400 years. The Nazca lines in South America are no aliens, and no mystery. If you stand on the high hills on one end of the Nazca Valley, you can see what looks like a spider, with lines drawn through it. If you bother to spend enough time investigating and observing, you learn that the spider is what we call the constellation Orion. The lines through the spider are for Orion at different times of the year.
Whatever God did and created is not for us to say. He provided, some of us, with the brains to investigate and figure shhhtuff out. Hypothesis, theories, maybe, perhaps. Some things we know for sure. Take....say...gravity. Every where we go, on Earth, gravity generally works the same way. If I ever drop a hammer and it does not fall, I’m running for the hills (if I can).
Back to Archeology / Anthropology. When I first began studying, ‘they’ said humans came across the Bering Straight to Alaska about 10,000 years ago. I immediately knew that was probably wrong, but we just keep investigating and gathering more information.
We will keep being curious, keep investigating until God calls us home. Or maybe, just maybe, his plan is for some of us to reach for the stars, and visit the rest of his creations. Anyone who states they absolutely KNOW God’s plan, well, be careful. I have faith that God has a plan, and someday I just might learn more. After he calls me home, he just might say...”stay tuned” and I will be just fine with that too.
Maybe its not a tool at all but a rock that broke and was tossed aside as defective.
“Cheap Chinese junk...”
Currently reading “”Forbidden Archeology” by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson, 1993.
Some of the fossil records go back as far as 2-3 million years and maybe as far back as 55 million years and I am only to page 137 of 800 plus pages of well documented discourse.