Posted on 05/20/2015 8:02:59 PM PDT by OK Sun
Finds Challenge Ideas about Who Were the First Toolmakers
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two rocks together to create a new technology.
The discovery is the first evidence that an even earlier group of proto-humans may have had the thinking abilities needed to figure out how to make sharp-edged tools. The stone tools mark “a new beginning to the known archaeological record,” say the authors of a new paper about the discovery, published today in the leading scientific journal Nature.
“The whole site’s surprising, it just rewrites the book on a lot of things that we thought were true,” said geologist Chris Lepre of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Rutgers University, a co-author of the paper who precisely dated the artifacts.
The tools ”shed light on an unexpected and previously unknown period of hominin behavior and can tell us a lot about cognitive development in our ancestors that we can't understand from fossils alone,” said lead author Sonia Harmand, of the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University and the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans, Homo sapiens, and our closest evolutionary ancestors. ...
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May we please get back to science?
You have no need to understand anything that doesn’t fit your biases I’m guessing. It might be helpful for you to actually understand what you are trashing.
Did you do the math? Never mid your false premises; you must be a liberal, well rehearsed.
3.3m year old tools, huh?
That was BEFORE they had 3-prong (grounded) plugs, right?
They don’t make tools like that anymore, I’ll tell ya!
Those were the good old days... Men really had skills to make stuff...
A good tool is like a friend. Sometimes you can’t find when you need it.
I guess.
Comical.
The speed of light is well-known and reliably proven and provable.
Basic trigonometry reliably gave us the distance to the moon and then the sun and then the planets and then the stars... and most stars are farther than 10,000 light years. (A high schooler with a pencil can calculate the easier distances with excellent accuracy. Sirius and Vega are two excellent ones to start with. In 1770, we had the distance to the sun within 1 percent. In 1836, we had the distance to 61 Cyg within 9 percent.)
Light must travel that distance, and it takes time... a lot more than 10,000 years for most... and yet it has already travelled here, for all of those millions of stars in the sky that we can see every night, or else we could not see them.
Please, do point out the verses in Genesis that explains this anomaly. The Almighty, in his efforts to pull a fast one over 18th-21st Century humans, at the moment of Creation supposedly 6000 +/- years ago, decided to place light 99.9999999999 percent of the way between the stars and the earth... just for kicks. Makes perfect sense. *rolling eyes*
About as much sense as the idea that the Bible covers every generation that has ever existed, and thus gives a complete accounting of the length of time since Creation.
Yes, He created it all.
No, it wasn't 6000 years ago.
Eve had fingernails.
Eve could see them growing as the days went by.
“Adam, you said you were older than me. I have evidence to the contrary.”
“What other lies have you told me? Where is she?”
Out of curiosity - where is your request to do math supposed to lead? I don’t have a faintest idea so far. What does your math show you? The math of OK Sun post seemed correct to me.
I have been thinking. I don’t think Star Trek is science fiction as in opposed to for example Arthur C. Clarke Odyssey books there was no science in Star Trek. Odyssey books had science we can understand, but in Star Trek it was just hand waved away and it was all Force Field category 4 or Warp Level 5.
One of the reason why I attempted my joke earlier. In 2001 Odyssey the monolith that taught apes to use tools came also 3 million years ago.
Will ping after travel. Thanks PROCON.
Just googled it and found “Stone Trek” is actually a thing. Heheee! I am watching the video now. I think they are overdoing it a bit by pretending their microphone is also made of stone as the sound quality makes it really hard to follow the speech. Or maybe it is just my inadequate speakers.
thanks 2ndDivisionVet for this similar one, nice pics:
Sophisticated Tool Kit Predates Humans
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/sophisticated-tool-kit-predates-humans-150520.htm
I see that you received the 'In Search Of' box set for Christmas, too.
It does explain a lot that those snotty scientists don't want us to know. ☺
Thanks!
Thanks PROCON.
Yeah, but have they found the Lyin’ King’s Birth Certificate?
It was also the beginning of percussion instruments...
Africans making tools? For what?
Because the universe is not 10,000 years old?
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