...the oldest level is exceptional. Dated to at least 300 000 years, it belongs to the Palaeolithic, Acheulian culture. The flint tools found at this level were shaped either by the last Homo heidelbergensis or by early Neanderthals.
...the oldest level is exceptional. Dated to at least 300 000 years, it belongs to the Palaeolithic, Acheulian culture. The flint tools found at this level were shaped either by the last Homo heidelbergensis or by early Neanderthals.
Incredible to think that hand axe is 300,000 years old!
Nice they stretch to the alpha as we approach omega. But I guess what goes around...
Why not 299,980 years 8 months?. .. I suspect counting time in this way is suspect..
I don’t believe it.. Its like a show, an act, a performance..
A story a Yarn... made up to inspire the non creative mind..
Talk about survival skills try to survive and hunt in the woods with just a sharp rock. Makes most survivalists look like wimps. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears all around and the closest gun is roughly 300,000 years away.
Good find. Thanks!
Considering this was France, did they also find a 300,000 year old white flag?
i bet the cheese smelled just as bad back then
Was that tool used for digging for truffles?
I question the dating on some of these finds. Even anchient man knew that the heat treating of flint changed it’s fracturing characteristicts. Those of us that flint knap quite often heat treat lower grades of flint, a process that takes days to do. Some us kilns, ovens and my favorite for Texas flints a turkey roaster. You start off at lower heats and bring it up gradualy over a couple of days. Heating up to fast cayse the moisture in the stone to expand faster than it can escape and shatter the stone. Anchient man used a simple method of digging a hole and laying the bifaces ofr pieces of flint at the bottom, covering with an inch or two of dirt and then build a fire on top of it. While not as effective as newer methods it still works pretty well.
I’ve dug out several firepits here on the ranch and it’s not uncommon to find larger peices of flint and bifaces layered at the bottom, some as far down as a foot or more. It’s that foot or more that leads to my questioning the dates.
I bet they didn’t find deodorant. Or soap.
But, of course, the geniuses at AGW Central have discovered CO2 is the magic bullet that can turn off the glacial cycle! Not!
