An example of a hafted axe similar to the one the unearthed flakes would have come from. [Stuart Hay, ANU.]
Posted on 05/10/2016 11:24:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An example of a hafted axe similar to the one the unearthed flakes would have come from. [Stuart Hay, ANU.]
Oh, they really do mean an Axe tool, not slang for a guitar.
No sweat - it’s a Craftsman.
Good one
I wondered where I left that!
And in related news, America’s oldest battleaxe was found to be resident in Chappaqua, NY. . .
Product labeling was certainly crude back then.
Interesting
Looks like a rock to me
I got a whole bunch of hatchets in my drive then
A long time age some guy spent hours looking for that.
‘At’s no’ a knife.
I say bogus.
If it was a battle axe, I’d suggest they were describing Hillary Clinton.
They didn’t find an axe as the headline states: they found flakes that they ASSUME came from the manufacture of an axe. Could they be assuming wrongly?
Wonder where the world’s oldest battleaxe is? I have met quite a few, but they were younger. Maybe in contention for the fiercest, but nowhere near the oldest.
Interesting! Thanks for posting it.
And nearby this awesome finding was the world’s oldest severed head.
Used to fight off crocodiles and Megalania, giant 15ft lizards and the Diprotodon wombat and marsupial lion and Dromornis stirtoni - a big mean 10ft bird and Tasmanian Tigers.
Thanks all for the surprisingly numerous replies!
Abstract: More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible. [1/8/99 Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna (Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee, Beverly J. Johnson, Marilyn L. Fogel, Nigel A. Spooner, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Linda K. Ayliffe, Science, Volume 283, Number 5399 Issue of 8 Jan 1999, pp. 205 - 208 )]In Horus, a journal published by the late David Griffard, vol II no 1 (1985), Barry Fell was interviewed. Alas, DG went down in a private plane after the seventh issue. Among other things:
In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!
Does this mean that I’m appropriating their culture
when I split firewood now and I have to stop it?
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