Paleolithic Handaxes From The North Sea (Neanderthals)

Wesssex Archaeology ^ | 3-10-2008

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Another version of the same story from The Independent:

Neanderthal treasure trove 'at bottom of sea'

[BlueStateBlues]

Thanks for the news. I collect stone-age artifacts, and the European period is the most interesting because of the age. These tools are very nice, I’m envious of the people that found them.

[JasonC]

"Has anyone ever seen these in actual hands used for anything? No. Are they only found here? No, all over the world. What are they really for? Probably slingstones. Why do we tell all these elaborate made up stories about them? We are paid to and don't know anything, so why not make stuff up?"

[Argus]

I think I saw one of these in the LL Bean catalogue.

[Kolokotronis]

Neat. Thanks!

[blam]

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[Taxbilly]

Handaxes are stone tools that were used in the Ice Age.

So that's like before global warming?

[Spirochete]

This area of the North Sea is known as ‘Doggerland’.

[Sols]

I don’t reckon it makes much sense for a sling stone to be oblong.

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[Sols]

Er, not oblong. Ovoid, shaped not unlike a chicken egg, whatever.

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

"This area of the North Sea is known as ‘Doggerland’."

Doggerland

The Rhine and the Thames Rivers were once the same river.

The DNA of my dad's mother (U5a1a) indicates that at one time, my relatives in Scotland walked to Finland to see our relatives there...that was before there was a North Sea.

[blam]

Stone age bones and axes found off Norfolk coast

[TXnMA]

"Probably slingstones. "

Jason C, you obviously

1. Never knapped flint.

2. Never used a sling.

And I'm trying to be nice...

[blam]

I already gave up...It’s obvious that JasonC isn’t going to be fooled on this one.

[blam]

Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)

Cheddar Man's DNA is U5a

[JasonC]

That's because you are thinking of a pellet sling, not a simple underhand motion like a softball pitcher. Later tech thinking.

[JasonC]

No, you obviously never tried it, is all. I have. And you know absolutely nothing about the sling principle, and can only imagine much later refinements of it.