1 posted on
12/17/2004 11:37:15 AM PST by
blam
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To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
2 posted on
12/17/2004 11:38:05 AM PST by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
3 posted on
12/17/2004 11:38:36 AM PST by
blam
To: blam
I wonder how much money I could make if I let 'ARCHAEOLOGISTS' poke around in my garage?
::smiles::
4 posted on
12/17/2004 11:40:55 AM PST by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: blam
500,000-Year-Old AxeI stopped by just to see if anyone had posted a Helen Thomas picture, yet.
5 posted on
12/17/2004 11:41:02 AM PST by
newgeezer
(Sarcasm content: 0.0000000%)
To: Peach; Howlin
They found the axe the "RINO"-bashers have been grinding!
6 posted on
12/17/2004 11:42:17 AM PST by
My2Cents
(To those inclined to receive it, "Merry Christmas!" To those NOT so inclined, "Bah Humbug!")
To: blam
What's to be excited about? It likely simply evolved from bigger pieces of rock as it was simply roughed up vs. bigger pieces of rock by natural forces...given enough time.
To: blam
Ugh, andesite is tough as nail to flake. Real sturdy edge though.
8 posted on
12/17/2004 11:43:15 AM PST by
Betis70
(I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
To: blam
"Stone Age British Isles" bump.
10 posted on
12/17/2004 11:44:42 AM PST by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
To: blam
I'd like to know how one could possibly get an accurate date on an inorganic rock. Surely this has to be an estimate...since the rock itself is surely much older. Based on the layer it was found?
Anyway, 500,000 years sounds like bunk.
To: blam
And I suppose the owner's descendents still work the same quarry. "It's been in the family for years."
12 posted on
12/17/2004 11:47:30 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: blam
Prolly used by the first English football hooligan against a poor Belgiae...but seriously, thanks for posting.
18 posted on
12/17/2004 11:55:13 AM PST by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: blam
How did they date it if it's not local stone?
If I drill a 500-foot deep hole, keep track of the material that comes out, place a cell phone in the hole and replace the dirt in reverse order...
Will the cell phone be dated to 200,000,000 BC when it's found?
Just wondering...
22 posted on
12/17/2004 11:55:38 AM PST by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: blam
I have serious skepticism about this find... 500,000 years old? How the heck can they be so sure?
They didn't even discover it in it's original spot or under any type of controlled conditions - a guy simply brought it to them after finding it in the quarry. How do they know he didn't carve it a few days before out of a big chunk of 500,000 year-old rock?
To: blam
Andesite bedrock only occurs in the Lake District or North Wales and this is only the ninth andesite hand axe to be found in the midlands in over a century. Archaeologists are now trying to figure out how the tool might have got there.Trade and commerce are as old as the human race. It's in our nature. That's why all efforts to significantly limit trade fail.
30 posted on
12/17/2004 12:02:41 PM PST by
jalisco555
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 4ConservativeJustices; ...
Thanks Blam. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
31 posted on
12/17/2004 12:04:15 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: blam
Amazingly, they also found some more votes for Digregoire.
35 posted on
12/17/2004 12:12:53 PM PST by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: blam
[A Stone Age hand axe dating back 500,000 years has been discovered at a quarry in Warwickshire.]
"Smiths Concrete Bubbenhall Quarry, Est. 500,000 years BC"
39 posted on
12/17/2004 12:23:47 PM PST by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Time to let slip the dogs...)
To: blam
Can you ask this guy to also dig around and see if he finds any ballots from Washington State?
Thanks!
44 posted on
12/17/2004 12:33:06 PM PST by
Chad Fairbanks
(Go Ahead. Mace just makes me even more excited.)
To: blam
I am having a hard time with the 500,000 years. Humans did not exist 500,000 years ago. In fact that is kinda earily for even Neanderthals. Who was making tools as complex as axes 500,000 years ago?
49 posted on
12/17/2004 12:45:40 PM PST by
jpsb
To: blam
How do they know it is 500k years old?
50 posted on
12/17/2004 12:45:57 PM PST by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
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