Mine was in reference to the idea that logs sink.
Logs do sink.
This is why logging is an environmental disaster that leads to global desertificational flooding; and why saw mills are always associated with ponds full of both floating and sunken logs.
You need a carefully controlled mix of both dry and waterlogged logs to maintain a mill pond, without it either flooding or drying out.
Obviously these Paleolithics hadn't yet discovered that fact.