Tools Unlock Secrets Of Early Man

BBC ^ | 12-14-2005 | Mark Kinver

[Ramius]

Not just any tools... but ~cordless~ tools. Obviously more advanced.

[tiki]

Now you know why they give lifetime warranties.

[tiki]

I can tell that you aren't addicted to artifact hunting :-} You can see where they were carefully chipped to sharpen the rock. I find 1200 yr old arrowheads that can still cut you if you're not careful.

[bulldozer]

The tools were found beneath glacial deposits laid down during a period 450,000 years ago when the region was blanketed in ice, so they must be older than this. Also present were fossils of a water vole Mimomys, which was superseded by another vole species called Arvicola around 500,000 years ago. This leads the authors to speculate that the tools are around 700,000 years old.

Well, this dating technique is pure speculation.

[SunkenCiv]

a cool update, about a month old:

On this beach, 700,000 years ago ...
Friday January 6, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1680443,00.html

"While their address was given as Lowestoft Museum, they are not on the staff: in a great British tradition of 'amateur' scientists and explorers, Mutch and Durbidge are unpaid and answerable to no one. Without them, the flints might never have been found. In our regulated, budget-driven world, it turns out that it's still possible for the independent visionary to rewrite history."

[SunkenCiv]

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