A view of the tools carved out of stone, in Tunceli, eastern Turkey, Sept. 16, 2020. (DHA Photo)
Posted on 10/02/2020 11:52:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to archaeologists, a 16-year-old boy who stumbled upon a host of old, stone implements in eastern Turkey has landed upon a find that can cast more light on early human civilization.
The young shepherd... contacted archaeologists who were working on a nearby dig in the district of Ovacik, in the eastern province of Tunceli, about a set of strange tools he had discovered.
Four days of excavation work in the area revealed remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic periods. Archaeologists say they are the oldest examples of a human settlement in Turkey's northeast region...
Research is still underway, but Yilmaz said these new discoveries likely dated back some 20,000 to 200,000 years...
Tunceli's earliest known settlers arrived between 5,500 B.C. and 3,500 B.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysabah.com ...
A view of the tools carved out of stone, in Tunceli, eastern Turkey, Sept. 16, 2020. (DHA Photo)
Rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
I wonder how many tools I’ve skipped across the water on lakes?
Probably several toolboxes full.
This toolkit is available at Home Depot for only $49.99!
Reminds me of a old joke:
A man and his family stopped at one of those tourist stops in the middle of nowhere out west to get gas, eat and stretch the legs.
When he went to pay the bill he saw a box full of arrowheads on the counter by the cashier, and a sign: Genuine Old Indian Arrowheads, $5 each.
They looked perfect, but hardly old. He asked the cashier if they were real, and he replied, “I guarantee they are 100% real, sir!” sounding a little miffed.
“Well where did they come from?” He asked, trying to be diplomatic.
“Out back,” said the cashier, “Go and look for yourself!”
The man went out back and then he was absolutely sure the cashier was telling the truth.
There sat an Old Indian making arrowheads.....................
“20,000 to 200,000 years. Pretty safe window ya get there doc.”
Right-and HE’S the ‘expert’...try that kind of logic in the real world.
LOL! That joke reminds *me* of the tourist in Spain who was hunting for an unique souvenir of his trip, and a dusty old shopkeeper offered to sell him the skull of Julius Caesar...
Why is it when they are in other countries they are shepherds, but in the US they are sheep herders?
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Because the US doesn't have and sheps, just sheep.
Pretty stupid spam ya got there.
The styles of knapping stones remained in use for a long time, so nailing down the exact date these fell will be pretty involved. IOW, you don't know what logic is, and you don't know what you're talking about.
3 rows, 5 columns:
#3, 5: That black material is probably the best of the group -- but, were large starting pieces available?
#2,1: Best work, 2nd best material. (Notice the gloss). That upper surface is the flake scar from a single hard hammer blade removal or "fluting" blow. (Surprisingly advanced technique!) Several small, "notching or "serrating" flake removals on each lateral edge -- made from the opposite, flat face. (I could make a nice point from that flake...)
#2,2: They were already striking off long, triangular-section "prismatic blades"!
#2,4: They were already making "prepared striking platforms" (bottom end) and striking off long, thin flakes!
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Bottom line: Surprisingly sophisticated lithic techniques for so very early in the development of "flintknapping"!!!
TXnMA
(Texas Archæological Steward)
P.S. I should have included the scale and doctor's name when cropping -- but was focussed too much on featuring the artifacts... :-(
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Probably very few -- unless you were on an actual prehistoric site -- and got bleeding fingers from the scalpel-sharp edges...
TXnMA
Do you think they have any Phillips Head rocks?
I did get bloody fingers.
Are you physic or something?
The physics of stone fracturing says, NO!
But -- I know plenty of childish FReepers who come onto threads and -- with their first dumbA$$3d post -- prove that they have rocks in their heads...
TXnMA
P.S. Wanna guess which of us could survive -- in fair comfort -- in the wilds -- with no iron or steel within a hundred mile radius? '-)
Oh.
You’ve been talking to my Mom.
You miss a couple of decades worth of Mothers Day presents and she says you were raised by muskrats.
So I was raised by muskrats.
I can swim pretty good.
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Physical chemist.
And, I frequently draw blood somewhere when I'm replicating prehistoric lithic tools...
TXnMA
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