Posted on 11/28/2013 6:04:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv
beautiful and expertly-flaked obsidian tool which formed part of a cache, rescued from a development site, offers a greater insight into the lives of ancient people that inhabited the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
In October 2010 Dr Robin Torrence a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum Reseach Institute was contacted by the General Manager at Barema oil palm plantation on New Britain Island. The company was in the process of bulldozing the side of a hill to make a house terrace. In the process they had uncovered a group of finely worked obsidian (volcanic glass) tools. A workman had recognized the obsidian as something belonging to the time of his ancestors and rescued a large tool before it could be crushed by the bulldozer.
Stemmed tools
The shape belongs to a group known as ‘stemmed tools’ because the handles resemble the stem of a leaf. The tools are very rare artefacts that date to between about 10,000 and 3,000 years ago, a period for which there is very little archaeological information from the island regions of PNG.
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Looks like a spear head to me.
I don’t see it either ,, maybe the creator was simply smart enough to leave part of the tool unsharpened so he wouldn’t cut himself... but that explaination wouldn’t rate a headline.
Which are the biggest p*nises we have.
In Like Flint
Agreed. It’s a hand ax. How else could it be made without cutting one’s hand while using it?
Now if only we’d f*** Iran and North Korea.
Stemmed tools have a leaf stem like protrusion that is used to hold or fixture the tool. The image shown is the opposite; the protrusion is the working part of the tool, and the “leaf” is the holding/fixturing part.
These are not scientists, they are grown up gay boyscouts.
“So primitive societies worship the p*nis; how primitive does that make New York, Los Angeles - or Washington DC?
Nice to know that three thousand years later, America has regressed three thousand years into the darkest form of tribalism.”
Lots of worship of the dick in the whitehouse.
Yes, he does seem to be our New Guinea.
I’m gonna guess it’s been a *very* long time since she saw a real one and has forgotten what she’s looking for/at.
It’s an arrow head, sculpted to be tied to a wooden shaft. Poor men! Think everything has to do with a penis. LOL!
I don’t see it either. To me it looks like a cutting tool. Phallic objects don’t have sharp edges.
Look, just whatever you do, don’t mention this “tied to a wooden shaft” to these archaeologists, and don’t turn your back on them, either. ;’)
:’D
Archaeologists are a horny bunch and they do a lot of interpreting.
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