Posted on 07/17/2012 8:15:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...the oldest level is exceptional. Dated to at least 300 000 years, it belongs to the Palaeolithic, Acheulian culture. The flint tools found at this level were shaped either by the last Homo heidelbergensis or by early Neanderthals.
Incredible to think that hand axe is 300,000 years old!
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Nice they stretch to the alpha as we approach omega. But I guess what goes around...
Why not 299,980 years 8 months?. .. I suspect counting time in this way is suspect..
I don’t believe it.. Its like a show, an act, a performance..
A story a Yarn... made up to inspire the non creative mind..
They are not mentioning white flag.
Talk about survival skills try to survive and hunt in the woods with just a sharp rock. Makes most survivalists look like wimps. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears all around and the closest gun is roughly 300,000 years away.
What’s so cool about that?...North Americans had tools like that 300 years ago
Good find. Thanks!
Considering this was France, did they also find a 300,000 year old white flag?
did they also find a 300,000 year old white flag?
The axe was wrapped up in one.
If it’s a Craftsman and you take into any Sears...
i bet the cheese smelled just as bad back then
Was that tool used for digging for truffles?
“...that hand axe is 300,000 years old!”
If it’s verified to be that old then how “prehistoric” can it be?
I question the dating on some of these finds. Even anchient man knew that the heat treating of flint changed it’s fracturing characteristicts. Those of us that flint knap quite often heat treat lower grades of flint, a process that takes days to do. Some us kilns, ovens and my favorite for Texas flints a turkey roaster. You start off at lower heats and bring it up gradualy over a couple of days. Heating up to fast cayse the moisture in the stone to expand faster than it can escape and shatter the stone. Anchient man used a simple method of digging a hole and laying the bifaces ofr pieces of flint at the bottom, covering with an inch or two of dirt and then build a fire on top of it. While not as effective as newer methods it still works pretty well.
I’ve dug out several firepits here on the ranch and it’s not uncommon to find larger peices of flint and bifaces layered at the bottom, some as far down as a foot or more. It’s that foot or more that leads to my questioning the dates.
Extremely prehistoric.
If human beings were indeed making and using hand tools 300,000 years ago then I think it’s fair to say that the historic timeline of hand tools goes that far back. Therefore, the term “prehistoric” is not necessarily applicable and since we are talking about beings who developed tool design, fabrication and usage skills then we must also be talking about a historic timeline of people that also goes that far back.
Anything unmeasureable before the Big Bang could be thought of as being prehistoric. But what if there WAS something measureable before the Big Bang?
I bet they didn’t find deodorant. Or soap.
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