[blam]

GGG Ping.

Cheddar Man must have been one of the axe carrying people.

[mlc9852]

"Cultural variation in a creature that relied on brute strength and little intelligence for survival is considered improbable by scientists, a point stressed by Michael Pitts, editor of British Archaeology. 'That hominids this ancient should express "cultural" variation would add a new perspective to the behaviour of creatures that many of us still think of as being nearer apes than humans,' he states in the current issue of the journal."

What do you more-intelligent Freepers make of this? Does it sound like he's already made up his mind on the subject?

[Loyalist]

Never bring a knife to an axe fight.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Fortunately, all the hand axes and long knives have now been rounded up the the authorities, lest someone hurt himself.

[starfish923]

400,000 years ago?
They weren't cro-magnan then. They were simply hominids (not homo sapiens) who eventually disappeared from the gene pool.
All we are is cro-magnan, from 75,000-100,000 years ago.
Cro-magnan and Neaderthals (also just hominids, NOT homo sapiens) DID co-exist on Europe for a while. I do honestly believe that some remnants of Neaderthals still exist in our gene pool, thanks to mixing of the species. That is clearly evident in some the Democrat left wingers. Brain not all there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Mary Settegast cited a similar widespread (perhaps widely scattered) war in the Mediterranean basin in her Plato Prehistorian.

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[Junior]

Ping (they'll be along any minute now).

[norwaypinesavage]

Obviously, the Clactonians should have passed more axer control laws.

[Oztrich Boy]

Unconscious Irony Department

They have found that two different groups - one wielding hand-axes, the other using Stone Age Stanley knives to slash and kill - could have been rivals for control of ancient Britain.

... Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum, London. 'Certainly it suggests Britain may well have been multicultural 400,000 years ago.'

[philetus]

South Essex: Man dies in road smash
Brought to you by the Evening Echo

A motorist from Great Wakering has died in a road crash when his car collided head-on with another.

Luciano Giardino, 37, of Seaview Drive, was driving his Vauxhall Astra on the A130 at Barnston, Dunmow at 8.30am on Wednesday.

While driving from Chelmsford towards Dunmow his white Astra collided with a green Jaguar driven by a 57-year-old from Saffron Walden driven in the opposite direction.

Mr Giardino was certified dead at the scene.

The driver of the Jaguar was taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital with rib injuries.

[Max in Utah]

An artistic representation of the extinct Straight-tusked Elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus)

Oxford Archaeology - Elephant Hunters of the Stone Age
"Archaeological excavations, in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, have revealed an undisturbed 400,000-year-old Early Stone Age site in the Ebbsfleet Valley, near Swanscombe, Kent. The skeleton of an elephant has been preserved in the muddy sediment near what was then the edge of a small lake. It is surrounded by flint tools, which lie undisturbed from where they were originally discarded"

[Smokin' Joe]

...and Ford man eventually triumphed over Stanley Steamer man....

The part I can't handle is that they seem to have decided that these people were incapable of developing independant and different technologies to accomplish similar tasks. I don't think they need to be different species to accomplish the same basic tasks using different technologies.

[SunkenCiv]

The trouble is that scientists are stymied by the paucity of remains of men and women from this period. They have lots of tools but only a shinbone, two teeth and some bits of skull from a human.

Besides that -- as everyone knows -- societies back then were totally peaceful and living in harmony with nature, which gave them a rich existence through its bounty. [rimshot!]

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