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Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
Science News ^ | October 22, 2020 | Bruce Bower

Posted on 10/28/2020 11:11:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

A set of 52 previously excavated but little-studied animal bones from East Africa's Olduvai Gorge includes the world's oldest known barbed bone point, an implement probably crafted by now-extinct Homo erectus at least 800,000 years ago, researchers say. Made from a piece of a large animal's rib, the artifact features three curved barbs and a carved tip, the team reports in the November Journal of Human Evolution.

Among the Olduvai bones, biological anthropologist Michael Pante of Colorado State University in Fort Collins and colleagues identified five other tools from more than 800,000 years ago as probable choppers, hammering tools or hammering platforms.

The previous oldest barbed bone points were from a central African site and dated to around 90,000 years ago (SN: 4/29/95), and were assumed to reflect a toolmaking ingenuity exclusive to Homo sapiens. Those implements include carved rings around the base of the tools where wooden shafts were presumably attached. Barbed bone points found at H. sapiens sites were likely used to catch fish and perhaps to hunt large land prey.

The Olduvai Gorge barbed bone point, which had not been completed, shows no signs of having been attached to a handle or shaft. Ways in which H. erectus used the implement are unclear, Pante and his colleagues say.

This find and four of the other bone implements date to at least 800,000 years ago, based on their original positions below Olduvai sediment that records a known reversal of Earth's magnetic field about 781,000 years ago. Another bone artifact dates to roughly 1.7 million years ago, the researchers say.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: erectusissapiens; fakescience; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; homoerectus; olduvaigorge
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To: SunkenCiv
There is human, and not human.

God created humans from he get-go - there were/are no intermediate species.

21 posted on 10/29/2020 2:58:00 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Psalm 73
God created humans from he get-go - there were/are no intermediate species.

Does the fossil record corroborate that claim of yours?

Regards,

22 posted on 10/29/2020 4:50:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
"fossil record"?

Doesn't corroborate intermediate human species either - unless, of course, you make a ton of suppositions with a modicum of faith.

That puts us both in a similar position of needing a combination of suppositions and faith.

23 posted on 10/29/2020 4:55:57 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SunkenCiv

Okay, how did they, whoever it was, make the barbs? Bone is pretty hard...................


24 posted on 10/29/2020 4:59:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Appropriation!!!”

And then MAN killed them off!

#Genocide


25 posted on 10/29/2020 6:37:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: SunkenCiv

Some pretty smart guys.


26 posted on 10/29/2020 7:31:01 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: ThanhPhero

:^)

Allan Sherman - I See Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gf4RfV_EiE


27 posted on 10/29/2020 10:13:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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