HUNTING NOTCHES An ancient piece of carved bone (both sides shown) was probably the base of a harpoon point that inhabitants of Timor attached to a wooden shaft. The artifact is slightly less than one inch long and about one-half inch wide.
HUNTING NOTCHES An ancient piece of carved bone (both sides shown) was probably the base of a harpoon point that inhabitants of Timor attached to a wooden shaft. The artifact is slightly less than one inch long and about one-half inch wide.
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very interesting
from the headline I had a mental image of a big rock anvil being dropped on unsuspecting fish.
Since it’s Timor, you have to suppose they understood and constructed boats. Timor was very close to the ice age Southeast Asian coast but not quite. Really interesting find!! Thanks for posting.
Sweet!!!
I had wondered where I left them things.
What paperwork do I fill out to get em back?
“...residue of a sticky substance...”
From 35,000 years ago? Really? Wow; beats the crap out of Crazy Glue or Gorilla Glue!
Big deal.
Did they find the missing crew and passengers of the minnow?
Second hypothesis they would advance would be "old bone used in much late manufacture"; their third hypothesis would be claims of outright fraud.
In all three scenarios, the result would be the same: bury it in an unmarked box in a dark corner of a university museum's subbasement "to await further curating".
The original article’s title is “Southeast Asian Island” because Timor is in the Indian Ocean not the Pacific Ocean.
Half inch wide and an inch long?
mighty small harpoon.
Is it just me or is “earlier than previously thought” the new meme?
