Posted on 06/11/2022 6:20:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 65,000-year-old tool – a kind of ancient Swiss Army knife – found across southern Africa has provided scientists with proof that the ancestors of modern homo sapiens were communicating with each other.
In a world first, a team of international scientists have found early humans across the continent made the stone tool in exactly the same shape, using the same template, showing that they shared knowledge with each other...
These tools were produced in enormous numbers across southern Africa roughly 60-65,000 years ago.
Because the people across southern Africa all chose to make the tools look the same, it indicates they must have been socially connected, said Amy Way, the project’s lead archaeologist, from the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney...
The question that really baffles archaeologists is why the big exit from Africa, which took place 60-70,000 years ago and involved the ancestors of everyone who lives outside Africa today, was so successful when previous excursions out of the continent were not...
The tool was used for numerous things, including cutting, drilling, and skinning.
Previous research has shown that in southern Africa, the artefacts were used as barbs in hunting technology and in Australia, in addition to forming armatures in spears, they were also used for working bone and hide and drilling and shaping wooden objects.
In Africa they have now been found 1,200km apart, Way said...
Way said another fascinating fact about this particular tool – the backed artefact – is that it was made independently by many different groups of people across the world, including in Australia...
This article was amended on 10 June 2022 to remove quotes from another researcher involved in the study after the Australian Museum said they had been supplied in error.
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I once found a rock similar to B at my house in Oregon. I live in the Cascade Mtns. foothills, on top of the end of a basalt ridge running west out of the mountains. Ideal corridor for hunters. One side was obviously chipped away, making it still sharp.
“each tribe using the pattern had to pay royalties of 2 baboon teeth to the original inventor, UGH-NAZ, and then to his descendants.”
...and 10% to the Big Guy...
“Because the people across southern Africa all chose to make the tools look the same, it indicates they must have been socially connected...”
Or they had one guy hawking his tools and he moved around a lot. “Get yer red hot Swiss Army Knife here!” and evidently he belonged to the Swiss Army, (or at least stole their idea for a knife) which was really unusual because up until now we thought Switzerland didn’t exist till
the middle ages, 1291 they say.
Surprised “middle school” lasted as long as it did. It sounds so blah and nothing special to promote the little darlings. At least jr. high has “high” in it.
Archeologists make great fiction writers.
They have a fertile imagination. From a tooth they can extrapolate how big the animal was, what it had for dinner, the color of hair or fur, social habits...
I think I missed the photo of the stone fork...
That’s what they tell me. I always thought Junior High School was much more grown up than Middle School. No one likes to be in the middle.
No one likes to be in the middle.
‘Face
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Where the mentality come about that ancient or primitive meant stupid?????
These archeologists are so full of themselves.
Where did…..?
Fools to the left of me, jokers to the right...
Oh C’mon man... Them are ROCKS! Communicated with each other? Hey, look a rock. Yeah man, we got rocks too.
Yeah, that!
I found a hand ax on my property in New England. I took it to a local university and the archeology department took a look and estimated it’s origin at about 8500 years ago.
Several had said that the Clovis Point was the Swiss Army Knife of the early Americas. It was much more useful than just dispatching Mammoths.
It’s not imagination, it’s education.
Nice find!
Heh, it’s not that farfetched. Could also be due to very long trade routes, including seagoing trade routes. If the trade wasn’t seagoing, it wasn’t getting to Australia.
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