[Openurmind]

What I find interesting about this is that we are talking about roughly 9,500 years ago yet look at these lithic flakes. Absolutely about as clean and refined as lithic strikes and cores can get. They were not any cleaner or accurate when stone work finally stopped in the last years of lithics including today... To put this timeline in perspective., 9,300 years ago this culture was still working lithics and in the stone age when Gobekli Tepe was long before them at 11,500 years. This for me displays that the "One size fits all" assumption of universal technology in a fixed timeline just does not work. We still as we are landing on Mars have cultures that are still in the stone age. How can you judge one against the other on a universal timeline?

[Openurmind]

[21twelve]

I did some work on the island of Papau New Guinea. IIRC, they were still finding stone age tribes in the 1960’s in isolated valleys.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Darn! I was going to guess that they invented the Flavored Shaved Ice Concession Stand! ;)

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks for sharing this article.

[2banana]

The world was much warmer then?

[Kommodor]

What do you consider the likelihood that some 10K+ years ago, there was (for the time) and advanced civilization throughout the world, or much of it anyway, which collapsed due to (reason n)?

Given some of the stuff out there, it seems quite possible, and would even help explain why sometimes it seems like the ancients were smarter than “we” think they should be.

I dunno, but it does seem rather curious.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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