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Front Garden Yields Ancient Tools (250,000 Years-Old, UK)
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| 6-20-2006
Posted on 06/20/2006 12:48:24 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:48:28 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
"The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for"
The routine sentence in these stories.
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: ansel12
WOW! Flat rocks! Those Britons were pretty advanced
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:54:32 PM PDT
by
sasherm13
To: SunkenCiv
Front garden yields ancient tools...
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:56:50 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: blam
Was this rudimentary stone knife handed in as part of a weapon amnesty?
To: blam
Interesting, talk about the Stone Age!
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:58:25 PM PDT
by
Mazda3Fan
To: sasherm13
"WOW! Flat rocks!"
Nope, not flat. Carefully knapped flint tools. Always interesting to find these, and informative.
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posted on
06/20/2006 12:59:10 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: george76
(British) Front garden yields ancient tools...The most ancient Brit tool I know
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:01:36 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(The next "greatest generation" is now.)
To: MineralMan
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:01:36 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: blam
The guy that made the tools probably lent them to his neighbour. They sat in the back of his tool cave for thousands of years afterward.
To: blam
The guy that made the tools probably lent them to his neighbour. They sat in the back of his tool cave for thousands of years afterward.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
My question is: how do you differentiate ancient tools from plain old rocks?
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:04:38 PM PDT
by
Palladin
("Governor Lynn Swann."...it has a nice ring to it!)
To: blam
Wow! 250,000 years ago is two, possibly three Ice Ages.
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:05:34 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: sasherm13
We always seem surprised that people in the past were more advanced than we thought.
I think that isn't surprising, we must have gotten some wrong ideas about the past at some point, and now we are correcting it.
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:07:08 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: blam
But one of our local SBC churches just sponsored one of those seminars with a guy proving the Earth is only 6,000 years old...
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:10:12 PM PDT
by
Gone GF
To: Palladin
"My question is: how do you differentiate ancient tools from plain old rocks?
"
All you'd have to do is see them in person. These tools are made of flint, and have been shaped by flaking, as on an arrowhead you might be familiar with. There's absolutely no way you'd mistake these for a "plain old rock."
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:10:40 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: blam
this helps prove that these people were not so far away from us as some would think and also that there were probably using language "I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa"
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:12:53 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: blam
So, were these tools found in the fossilized hands of Piltdown Man?
To: blam
Someone probably lent them to his neighbor, who never returned them. :)
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:29:13 PM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: ansel12
"The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for"
"The routine sentence in these stories."
I wonder which bit of information they had wrong?
a) 250,000 years ago.
b) sophistication of man.
I guess I would be interested in how they know the 250,000 years are correct.
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posted on
06/20/2006 1:29:54 PM PDT
by
728b
(Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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