A copper awl is the oldest metal object unearthed to date in the Middle East. The discovery reveals that metals were exchanged across hundreds of miles in this region more than 6,000 years ago, centuries earlier than previously thought, researchers say.
1 posted on
08/22/2014 8:00:54 PM PDT by
fatez
To: fatez
Pretty cool pictures at the site.
2 posted on
08/22/2014 8:01:39 PM PDT by
fatez
("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
To: fatez
Is that awl there is? /Peggy Lee
3 posted on
08/22/2014 8:02:04 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: SunkenCiv
5 posted on
08/22/2014 8:04:58 PM PDT by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: fatez
6 posted on
08/22/2014 8:05:09 PM PDT by
Bratch
To: fatez
6000 years ago, 4000 years before Christ.
That IS old, even before the Egyptians.
Apparently OUR very own ancestors Homo sapiens sapiens evolved into what we are today around 200,000 years ago, in Africa.
THAT is even older.
So what we humans doing from 200,000 BC - 4000 B.C.? That is a HUGE chunk of time.
To: fatez
24 posted on
08/22/2014 8:33:18 PM PDT by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: fatez
If a man went back in time to this era with nothing more than a common knife, he could form a tribe and then an army and then rule the world.
25 posted on
08/22/2014 8:35:46 PM PDT by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: fatez
They counted the beads but the “The area was a village from about 5100 B.C. to 4600 B.C., and was first discovered in A.D. 1950, with digs taking place from the end of the 1970s up to the present day” is just an estimate. Never mind, my “there you go again with the date” will not be accepted. Actually, this article was close to the truth, but not close enough. These writers should just admit they really don't know what the date was and leave it at that.
26 posted on
08/22/2014 8:39:22 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: fatez
Obviously this tool was used by the woman to sew with in cloth,leather or both.
29 posted on
08/22/2014 8:42:09 PM PDT by
Rockpile
To: fatez
The second oldest thing was a pawn ticket for a copper awl.
31 posted on
08/22/2014 8:52:38 PM PDT by
Redcitizen
(Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
To: fatez
38 posts and no photo of the awl’s owner.
To: fatez
I wonder how much it would go for on eBay?
45 posted on
08/22/2014 9:49:05 PM PDT by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
To: fatez
46 posted on
08/22/2014 9:59:38 PM PDT by
House Atreides
(ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
To: fatez
Either related to goat herding or decapitation.
To: fatez
55 posted on
08/23/2014 9:25:54 AM PDT by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: fatez; SunkenCiv
62 posted on
08/23/2014 1:33:54 PM PDT by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
To: fatez
It has also be learned that most of the copper used back then came from copper mines in North America.
70 posted on
08/26/2014 6:46:28 AM PDT by
stockpirate
(This will stop when conservatives take to the streets, not before.)
To: fatez
71 posted on
08/26/2014 6:49:10 AM PDT by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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