[Dysart]

[ClearCase_guy]

remains of tuna and other deep-water fish were uncovered inside a cave.

Hey, I've heard of whale fossils being found in deserts. Does that mean that people dragged dead whales deep into the desert?

[central_va]

What did they use for fishing line?

[Grunthor]

Boy that’s going to irk some ultra religious folks.

[freedumb2003]

>>Scientists say fish hooks go back 42,000 years<<

Which tracks with the discovery of the first “he was THIS big and got away” story...

[bunkerhill7]

Does this mean they had large ocean-going vessels 42,000 years ago, not just little banka outriggers?

[Sacajaweau]

Think those hooks are too small for big fish....1 cm = approx 3/8”.....and not convinced they’re fish hooks.

[CrazyIvan]

Historians claim that beer was invented around 9500BC. That
means fishing was no fun for almost 30,000 years.

[Sacajaweau]

So they got a tuna....and somehow they have interpreted that to mean they were experts at deep sea fishing. There are many possibilities....

[calex59]

There doesn’t appear to be anyway to attach a line to these so called “fishing hooks”. So how did they work? Call me skeptical, but I don’t think they are hooks for fishing.

[ExCTCitizen]

Fishing: Its so easy a CAVEMAN can do it!!

[texmexis best]

It looks to me as if it designed to be pushed into the end of a thin spear. It may have been baited or perhaps an area was chummed, the spear dropped under neath the fish and then pulled up quickly to gig the fish. Could also have attgached to a piece orock or wood and let down. The line would be attached tto the larger piece of stone or wood.

The presence of tuna does mean that they were out a ways.

[Revolting cat!]

God is real good at faking the age of such objects to fool stupid humans, when he knows well the earth he created is only 6,245 years old this past October.

[texmexis best]

Couple of points on the fish hooks.

1. They were probably made to be snelled (wrapped) like other fishing hooks that we now make (spade type has a flattened section where the eye sould normally go and it is used by match fishermen according to Mustad).
2. In the 1980s when I started fly fishiing I do remember dry fly hooks that had no eye. You snelled and supposedly they made beautiful flies that sat beautifully on top of the water.
3. Apparently there are still a large number of eyeless hooks still made and they are simply snelled. They are common in commercial fishing and Africa.