Posted on 06/08/2005 11:08:52 AM PDT by blam
Out of Iran?
Wow. That ought to advance Iranian technology light years!
How did the mullahs miss this? This doesn't square with the kornran.........
Hhhmmmmmm - 400,000 years old? Humans?
What makes a stone a tool and not a rock broken in half?
Previous post about Mazandaran:
Ancient Tombs Of Unknown Etnic Group Discovered In Mazarandan (Iran)
I dont believe it.
Yeah, me neither. Scientists love to play with dates, don't they?
Stone tools are often made of flint and have tiny workings on them that could only be man made, or specific shapes not caused naturally..such as an arrowhead.
LOL - I've often wondered that myself.
No - I'm suggesting the dates may be wrong. That is, if they are in fact tools.
Diidnt they tell us the Clovis was the 1st tool? 10,000 years old? I think they guess too much..which wouldnt bother me if they admitted it.
Not Homo sapiens, late H. erectus or a very early neanderthalensis.
I think there are some RINO's that would qualify as the first tools.
This is where the 400K number came from. Give the stone tools to me and I will 'date' them to whatever age you desire.
Absolutely not. The recently discovered 'Hobbits' in Indonesia had well worn 80,000 year old shell necklaces buried with them. That's a problem because the 'Hobbits' were declared to be Homo-Erectus but, they weren't suppose to be smart enough to make necklaces.
The stone tools that are usually claimed to be as old as this, actually I will amend that to ALL stone tools as old as these, are NOT flint and do not have workings on them and are not in the shape of arrow heads, especially arrow heads since the bow wasn't invented until about 10,000 years ago, or spear heads. Usually they have an edge that could easily have been made by natural causes.
They will have a small edge running down a part of the tool and the scientists claim they are primative axes etc. All the ones I have seen that are supposed to be tools of this age are indistinquishable from ordianry rocks that have broken in some natural manner. IMO.
I was wondering where I left those tools.
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