Posted on 01/02/2021 1:22:26 AM PST by nickcarraway
These are unique and rare stone axes from the Stone Age
A Saudi scientific team from the Heritage Authority discovered stone tools used by the inhabitants of Assyrian civilization in the Paleolithic period that date back to 2,00,000 years. The Heritage Authority said in a press statement that the discovered stone tools from the Shuaib Al-Adgham area, located east of the Al-Qassim region, are stone axes from the Middle Paleolithic period.
These are unique and rare stone axes that were characterised by the high precision in manufacturing that these human groups used in their daily life. The abundance of stone tools discovered from this site indicated the numerical density of prehistoric communities that lived in this region. It is also a clear indication that the climatic conditions in the Arabian Peninsula were very suitable for these human groups as they benefited from the natural resources available therein, the Saudi Gazette reported.
The satellite images showed that the Shuaib Al-Adgham and other sites were connected with passages of rivers to confirm that humans used rivers to reach deep into the interior regions of the Arabian Peninsula in ancient times. According to the wide spatial distribution of the Assyrian sites, they were the largest concentrations of human inhabitance worldwide. It also indicates that human groups in the Arabian Peninsula were able to cross through vast swathes of geographical distances, while the large number of sites centered around ancient valleys and rivers indicated that these groups were gradually spreading and discovering new sites when they needed them. These sites were characterised by the spread of broken stone fragments and manufactured tools.
The authority stated that a huge amount of new environmental and cultural information has been collected, and the results showed that there were significant changes in the environments, ranging from very arid to humid. The current evidence strongly supports the assertions of the existence of the "Green Arabian Peninsula" many times in the past.
During the wet phases of human civilizations, there were rivers and lakes throughout the Arabian Peninsula, which led to the spread and expansion of these human groups. This confirms that the Arabian Peninsula was a major crossroads between Africa and the rest of Asia throughout prehistoric times and that it was one of the places of settlement in the period of the Stone Ages. It is believed that the ancient migrations of these human groups were through two main passages - the Bab Al-Mandab Strait and the Sinai Peninsula Corridor.
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Time machine?
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“humans used rivers to reach deep into the interior regions of the Arabian Peninsula in ancient times”...
It’s always smart to live upstream. ;-)
The amazing thing is that SA hasn’t changed socially/culturally in all that time.
Actually your looking at several knapped bifaces and possibly the hammer stone they used to knap them. The other stones are most likely the debitage from the knapping process. Probably not their first choice when it came to material to produce tools from but you work with what’s available.
Musta been the Stanleys...still making tools, I think...
I’m a natural skeptic but it seems obvious that the stones were chipped to form shapes and edges.
This has nothing to do with the Assyrian civilization. The Arabian peninsula has been a hot bed of Homo erectus finds. 200,000ya fits that time frame.
Climate change in the Neolithic. Who would have thought of it? /sarc
I don’t think these humans were Homo Sapiens...
Homo Erectus? Neanderthalis? Heidelbergensis?
The Middle Paleolithic, this early in, didn’t see Homo Sapiens outside of Africa until 125,000 years ago—in the Levant.
Also, it was common for Erectus, Neaderthal and Heidelbergenis to use local stone, whereas Sapiens traveled many, many miles for quality stone to make tools. It’s one important clue when archaeologists are trying to find true sapiens settlements.
Saudi Arabia still doesn’t have homo sapiens and the tools they found were actually found in a hospital...
... still being used.
true... but I still wouldnt pay a red cent for the lot of em!! lol...
200,000 years? This is probably the tools of the current 3rs worlders over there. Probably left them there a few weeks ago
Why not? The climate on earth was not significantly different.
I think that humans showing up 12,000 years ago is a little naive. But I don’t “know”.
Did they have the “Craftsman” logo on them. If so they are still under warranty.
Did they have the “Craftsman” logo on them. If so they are still under warranty.
The saudi’s because of islam have barely progressed at all since then.
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