Posted on 10/22/2023 10:08:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Study co-author Margherita Mussi, an archaeologist at Sapienza University in Rome, and colleagues combined two techniques: argon-argon dating and a recently completed paleomagnetic dating analysis to fine-tune the site's ages. The fossil and Oldowan artifacts with it had previously been dated to 1.7 million to 1.8 million years ago, but revised ages now place them at some two million years old. The team also used advanced imaging technology to study the fossil and suggest which species it represents...
"Now we know, back to two million years ago, it's part of the array of environments that H. erectus occupied in Africa at that time," he adds. "But also it's the foreshadowing of all the different kinds of environments that H. erectus would move into and populate." By about 1.7 million years ago, they were found in China at 40 degrees north latitude, a pretty cold environment. And by about the same time, they were found in the Caucasus in what is now the country of Georgia, another cooler environment where Europe meets Asia...
The fossil was found with a variety of Oldowan tools. These tool types, which our distant ancestors began making at least 2.6 million years ago, were basic, including hammerstones for bludgeoning and sharp flakes that were struck off larger cores to provide a sharp cutting edge.
But in only slightly younger layers, relating to 1.95 million years ago, researchers unearthed some of the oldest known examples of early Acheulean lithic technology. Acheulean hand axes and cleavers represent a more sophisticated type of production. They were created by taking a large stone flake and painstakingly shaping it into an ax head by repeatedly striking and breaking smaller pieces off the edges.
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LOL!! 😂👍
That image is framed,and has hung in my bar for 31 years.
That’s the Homo, Micheal is “Erectus”.
Pete Shelley looks like a “killer fag.”
Smithsonian Magazine lost all credibility years ago.
I was surprised to learn when he died, he had been married to a woman for years.
So, a sapien guy, eh?
Competing with Budweiser?
Agreed. This SC guy is out to lunch.
So, they were homos?
I’m guessing homo erectus drank Bud Light.
No wondering why big Mike sneaked past security to go out on the town so many times to go man hunting.
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