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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postlike I said, there is very strong evidence that we nicked the flint technologies from them. There is also very strong evidence that they couldnt vocalise. Thats a real impediment to abstract thinking
which is what we are good at
SOMETIME ABOUT A million and a half years ago, some forgotten genius of the hominid
world did an unexpected thing. He (or very possibly she) took one stone and carefully used it
to shape another. The result was a simple teardrop-shaped hand axe, but it was the world’s
first piece of advanced technology.
It was so superior to existing tools that soon others were following the inventor’s lead and
making hand axes of their own. Eventually whole societies existed that seemed to do little
else. “They made them in the thousands,” says Ian Tattersall. “There are some places in
Africa where you literally can’t move without stepping on them. It’s strange because they are
quite intensive objects to make. It was as if they made them for the sheer pleasure of it.”
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostNeanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looked
(that's a woman by the way)
Why Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looks - Science, News - The Independent
which is what we are good at
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Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looked
(that's a woman by the way)
Why Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looks - Science, News - The Independent
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postit is amazing. I often look around me to see if there is any vestigal neanderthalism around. Slopey forhead, chinless knuckle draggers. Inarticulate.
have you seen any around here lately ?
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostSounds like cutting edge technology.
have you seen any around here lately ?
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postwell they were constantly making breakthroughs. from knapping, to heat treating to core. iirc.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostApparently there are places in the world where so many axe heads have been discovered, which are believed to be of Neatherthal origin IIRC, that it's not known why they did it. They appear to have gone technology mad.
they probably had specialists, and they had bugger all to do in the winter, except drink beer , fornicate, drool and make spear points.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postyep. the arrow heads I'm on about are not from the last ice age, they are from 50k years ago. And the last I heard, we nicked the technolgy from the neanderthals.
This is where the idea comes from that we might have had a hand in wiping the neanderthals out
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostEqually your life might have been as you regale here from time to time, of the time when you were skint. What about that life? And that would still be a better life stlye than that experienced by the majority of humans on the planet, allegedly.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postlets see, I could live the exiting life of a hunter gatherer and die of old age when Im twenty
or I could drink beer, drool and fornicate till I am too old, then give my grandkids hell.
shoot TW , thats a toughie
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostOi! That was a series of unfortunate unconnected hunting accidents.
They asked some redskins why they saved the serated and barbed points for the enemy, when they would guarantee a better chance of a hunting kill.
The answer was very practical - there are plenty of deer, and it takes ages to make an arrow. an ordinary arrow will fall out if you dont make a clean kill ,allowing it to be recovered.
With an enemy, you dont want it to come out. If it doesnt kill him, at least he will die of gangrene, or some witch doctor will have to gouge it out.
very nice
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYou're thinking like a paleface. They took some persuading to give up their miserable existence to live like a white man.
or I could drink beer, drool and fornicate till I am too old, then give my grandkids hell.
shoot TW , thats a toughie
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postyep. the arrow heads I'm on about are not from the last ice age, they are from 50k years ago. And the last I heard, we nicked the technolgy from the neanderthals.
This is where the idea comes from that we might have had a hand in wiping the neanderthals out
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostSo, just after we learnt to talk
This is where the idea comes from that we might have had a hand in wiping the neanderthals out
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