To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
“She further said that the intelligence of Stone Age humans was more akin to that of modern humans than previously thought.”
So basically, we’re just a bunch of frickin’ morons?
3 posted on
05/14/2009 10:04:47 AM PDT by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
To: nickcarraway
Did they do some crazy things with it?
4 posted on
05/14/2009 10:06:21 AM PDT by
RexBeach
("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
To: nickcarraway
Did they make
also?
5 posted on
05/14/2009 10:07:00 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
To: nickcarraway
Somehow I’m thinking ancient man didn’t really make cyanoacrylate.
8 posted on
05/14/2009 10:13:07 AM PDT by
OpeEdMunkey
(We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
To: nickcarraway
I don't know about the stone age, but certainly by the early medieval era this was a pretty well known concept. (Distilled) gum arabic and gum ammoniac were one method of applying gold leaf to manuscript pages, many of which are still in near pristine shape 1,000 years later. Because the gums are nearly transparent,ochres or other pigments were added so that the illuminator could ensure it was being applied precisely where he wanted it. I employed the very technique this past weekend on a calligraphy piece I did...
10 posted on
05/14/2009 10:16:14 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: nickcarraway
12 posted on
05/14/2009 10:17:02 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: nickcarraway
Stone Age humans who lived about 70,000 years ago were such good chemists that they made a sophisticated kind of natural glue Humans have been manufacturing pretty good natural "rubber cement" for at least that long, too.
13 posted on
05/14/2009 10:18:18 AM PDT by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: nickcarraway
They couldn’t possibly have known about chemical pH or iron content … but they knew that certain combinations of things worked very well,’ Wadley said."Yeah...those stupid farmers talking about sweet and sour soil didn't know jack about pH and couldn't taste iron in the red ochre.
15 posted on
05/14/2009 10:33:55 AM PDT by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: nickcarraway
Back then, if something wasn’t eating you, or you weren’t eating it, what else was there to do but a little adhesive science labwork?
If they hadn’t done the groundwork, Billy Mays wouldn’t be selling Mighty Putty today.
18 posted on
05/14/2009 11:00:54 AM PDT by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
20 posted on
05/14/2009 2:41:01 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: nickcarraway
21 posted on
05/14/2009 2:41:26 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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22 posted on
05/29/2009 7:57:10 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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