Date: 2/09/2021 16:59:18
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1785638
Subject: 00,000-Year-Old Bone Tools

Huge Find of 400,000-Year-Old Bone Tools Challenges Our Understanding of Early Humans
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-number-of-elephant-bone-tools-found-at-a-400-000-year-old-site-near-rome

As far as Lower Paleolithic archaeology goes, this is quite the haul: Experts have uncovered a record 98 elephant-bone tools at a site dating back some 400,000 years. This discovery could change our thinking on how some of the early humans – such as Neanderthals – fashioned implements like these.

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Date: 2/09/2021 17:59:14
From: dv
ID: 1785655
Subject: re: 00,000-Year-Old Bone Tools

00,000-Year-Old Bone Tools, that’s really recent.

BSF, interesting piece.

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Date: 3/09/2021 19:29:37
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1786046
Subject: re: 00,000-Year-Old Bone Tools

i really wish that wood tools had survived from that long ago.

Wood tools in the form of spears and clubs probably pre-date both bone tools and stone tools.

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Date: 3/09/2021 19:35:14
From: dv
ID: 1786052
Subject: re: 00,000-Year-Old Bone Tools

mollwollfumble said:


i really wish that wood tools had survived from that long ago.

Wood tools in the form of spears and clubs probably pre-date both bone tools and stone tools.

Indeed they are part of humans and chimpanzees shared culture so perhaps predate the divergence.

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