One of the perfectly-preserved spears. Photo: Nicholas J. Conard, University of Tubingen
One of the perfectly-preserved spears. Photo: Nicholas J. Conard, University of Tubingen
A homo erectus offshoot
Shouldn’t we sound an alarm now that there are no elephants, rhinocerii, and other exoctic beasts left in Germany outside of zoos? My, oh my! It sounds like an ecological disaster worthy of an Algore movie! sarc/off
“A capacity for abstract thought and complex planning” They know this from looking at a stick. My little dog brings in sticks all the time. I knew he was a genius. We’re going on the Letterman show.
“My dog is a genius.”
“Well your genius dog is pooping on the stage.”
“I said he’s a genius Dave, I never said he could talk. That’s just his way of critiquing your show.”
Lots of 700,000 year old hand axes found in Africa. They’re weapons.
This find has been around a lot of years,
I first read about them just after some lefty book on how war was a modern construct had been published, the article described them as fighting spears or even javelins, I think.
Just another benefit of "clean" coal.
