Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: bubby on May 25, 2015, 11:24:55 am
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Anybody read about the new find in Kenya? It pushed back the record of oldest find by about 700,000 years
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Seen it, very interesting.. :)
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Anybody read about the new find in Kenya? It pushed back the record of oldest find by about 700,000 years
What did who find?
Zuma
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Stone tool find in Kenya predating the earliest previous find by 700,000 years
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http://earthsky.org/earth/oldest-known-stone-tools-found-in-kenya (http://earthsky.org/earth/oldest-known-stone-tools-found-in-kenya)
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Interesting. Makes ya wonder.
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Maybe they are just rocks, they did not look very tool like. I know a tool could be an unworked rock to crack open a Hickory nut but, to me the anthropological leap is when man started working the natural resources to make improved tools.
Grady
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A tool can also be a stone crudely broken to get a sharp edge, if one whack accomplished that oh well, we shall see
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Thanks for the info Jo jo and bubby.
I have been following east African discoveries for a very
long time. These stones seem like the real deal.
It would be hard to get something fake like this past the
peer review lol.
Knapping had to start some where.
What is amazing to me is knapping was a human trait for
3 million years but was lost in just 400 in the western hemisphere.
You would think it would be genetic??
Zuma
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Zuma they did mention that with the age of the items found that you didn't have to be very intelligent to make stone tools, that explains a lot :o :laugh: