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Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin
PhysOrg.com ^
| September 10, 2009
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Posted on 09/12/2009 5:44:18 PM PDT by decimon
Four giant stone hand axes were recovered from the the dry basin of Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert.
Oxford University researchers have unearthed new evidence from the lake basin in Botswana that suggests that the region was once much drier and wetter than it is today.
They have documented thousands of stone tools on the lake bed, which sheds new light on how humans in Africa adapted to several substantial climate change events during the period that coincided with the last Ice Age in Europe.
Researchers from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford are surveying the now-dry basin of Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert, which at 66,000 square kilometres is about the same size of present day Lake Victoria.
Their research was prompted by the discovery of the first of what are believed to be the world’s largest stone tools on the bed of the lake. Although the first find was made in the 1990s, the discovery of four giant axes has not been scientifically reported until now. Four giant stone hand axes, measuring over 30 cm long and of uncertain age, were recovered from the lake basin.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: africa; climate; drought; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; sahara; science
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:44:19 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:44:53 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon; KevinDavis
Oxford University researchers have unearthed new evidence from the lake basin in Botswana that suggests that the region was once much drier and wetter than it is today. drier AND wetter
That really narrows it down.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:52:33 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: decimon
Wow! Climate change back then! Farting dinosaurs?
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:52:42 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: decimon
What were they doing out on the lake with big hand axes like that? Trying to conk a plethiosaur on the head?
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:54:55 PM PDT
by
Daniel II
(I'm Jim Thompson, this is my brother Jimmy, and this is my other brother Jimmy)
To: decimon
They have documented thousands of stone tools on the lake bedMust be one of those programs to reduce stockpile of weapons...
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:54:57 PM PDT
by
John123
(If Teddy was the lion of the senate... then we were the prey.)
To: GeronL
That really narrows it down.Makes it hard for them to be wrong.
Kind of like 'global change'.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:55:00 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Where's this tagline thing everyone keeps talking about?)
To: decimon
Seem too large to be useful. How does their size compare with that of other stone axes?
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:58:40 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: fso301
Maybe their owners were related to Goliath.
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:18:13 PM PDT
by
milagro
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:18:42 PM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:19:28 PM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
To: decimon
I’m no archeologist so how do they know these are axe heads and not adzes or plows or some other implement?
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:24:01 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: decimon
Humans used to live underwater?
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:25:55 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(nothing is normal anymore)
To: fso301; Straight Vermonter
Axe me no questions, I’ll fell you no lies.
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:27:12 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: InvisibleChurch
Humans used to live underwater? Yes ... but they had to put giant stone-age axes in their pockets to stay there.
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:28:26 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: decimon
Big Foot nothing; we got to start looking for Big Hand
To: John123
Must have been a stone age Davis Monthan stoneyard type place. Drier and wetter huh? Amazing.
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:32:57 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half of the population is below average)
To: muir_redwoods
Big Foot nothing; we got to start looking for Big HandAxequatch.
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:35:28 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Maybe those are arrow heads from the Big’uns people.
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posted on
09/12/2009 7:08:05 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: decimon
climate change way way back then??
who even knew there were SUV’s so long ago??
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posted on
09/12/2009 7:32:47 PM PDT
by
webschooner
(First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win -- Mahatma Gandhi)
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