Posted on 05/10/2016 11:24:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I was at a talk last night about these ancient tools and how they help describe the “people” that used them. He had examples of some early ones and they would be easy to miss if walking along the beach.
I forget the names of the groups, but at 2.7 mya it was something like homo erectus - and on average their tools had I think 4 sharp edges. Then came another one and they had 8 sharp sides. Neanderthals had 36 sharp sided tools. Homo Sapiens had 360 sharp edges! He said some Neanderthals seemed to have tried more edges, but they just couldn’t do it. Difference in how their brains were wired (same size or larger than humans, but smaller frontal cortex), and I think humans were the first ones to have a muscle and nerve that went past the last joint in the thumb - so much better dexterity. AND he figured that more complicated verbal communication was the key for human survival. He said that muscle/nerve for the thumb is tied in with the nerves and muscles for our tongues! (Ever see a young child concentrate on writing with their tongues hanging out!?)
And it is amazing that 50,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens were able to somehow be on something that floated and arrived in Australia beyond the horizon. The speaker said something about “how brave was that!” - but I would imagine it was some guys on a raft trying to float along the shoreline to avoid the saber-tooth tigers - and they were blown out to sea. And for every 100 that got blown out, one raft made it to Australia.
Thanks. He's just repeating the good old linear progress crap from the Victorian Era, best summarized IMHO by fringe writer John Anthony West -- a linear progression from stupid cave men to smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste.
There have been different toolkits defined by the similarity in technique, and the techniques have been reproduced by modern knappers (basically, scientists who do practical research, bangin' rocks together), but who made which one is entirely a matter of agenda/opinion. The name given to each toolkit was picked based on the modern placename nearest where each was found (in the Americas, the Clovis points were first dug up and IDed near Clovis, NM, for example).
The master race hypothesis known as the Replacement Theory has the gracile, ballet-dancer-like ancestors of us all prancing on point out of Africa perhaps 50K years ago, with total biological superiority (there's no way to dress it up) and they didn't have to actually go out and just mass-murder everyone and everything they found -- they just replaced them.
How?
Don't ask so many darned questions.
Also, they never built a boat.
Oh wait, they must have built some boats, because a few people crossed into Australia 20K years ago, taking all the boats in the world with them. No one thought of it again for 14K years. Then about 6000 years ago, someone built more boats. But they didn't venture out of sight of the shore until the 14th century AD.
Except in the Pacific, which covers half the world's surface -- a small ethnic group of uncertain origins started sailing across unmarked waters and settling every little island where permanent habitation is possible, by approximately 500 AD. And they never ever crossed the entire ocean to the Americas. No one ever ever did that until 1492.
Of course, the prehistoric tools left by someone on Flores Island -- a landmass known to have been an island throughout all the sealevel declines during glaciations -- about 800,000 years ago. They must have built boats just to get over there. Then they stayed, and they'd taken all the boats with them. So, between 800,000 years ago and 20,000 years ago, no one ever built a boat.The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Dang carbon footprint of the paleolithic.
Okay that means that means it was pretty fresh in your memory. Was there an admission price? if so, you should demand a refund and spread the news about this fraud.
Here's the first clue....
...Then came another one and they had 8 sharp sides. Neanderthals had 36 sharp sided tools. Homo Sapiens had 360 sharp edges!
Now think about that 360 edge number, kind of miraculous that it corresponds to the number of degrees in a circle, yes?
If you have kids, see if they have one of those cheap plastic protractors, usually 6" in diameter. If not, the dollar stores have them.
Take a close look at marks delineating one degree. Really small aren't they at the six inch diameter. Now a stone of that diameter, about the size of average saucer doesn't exactly fit comfortably in the hand and with knapped edges all around much less so.
So a smaller diameter stone would be needed to be a usable tool. But that means the arc of 1 degree is even smaller. Plot it out on paper after drawing the 6" arc.
Had Erich von Daeniken found such a stone he would have called it proof that stone age men or aliens had devised a clorkwork gear.
That makes everything presented suspect...sceptical approaches are necessary. Nuff said
Nice job!
I want to axe you something.
sorry about the double post...
“Hey OJ — can you go to the game, or do you have to axe your wife first?”
“Don’t play golf with OJ because he has a mean slice”.
Probably imported from China.
(I've read that it is no longer cool to use LOL)
It’s a chip off the old block?
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f8n0api6bbbzoq0/AABKR_nWeccQQYzcBr0xfSyna?dl=0
;’)
And that’s how the Honeymooners gave rise to the Flintstones and the Jetsons! ;’)
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