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Lexion
08-13-2009, 03:32 PM
[offsite:2jhtye1d]WASHINGTON (AP) - Maybe it was an accident or perhaps an ancient experiment.
Many thousands of years ago, early humans somehow figured out they could make better stone tools by treating the rocks with fire. Evidence of that, dating 72,000 years ago, has been found on the southeastern tip of Africa, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
The find pushes back the first evidence of such technology by at least 45,000 years, according to Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, a co-author of the report.[/offsite:2jhtye1d]
Source (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A25K400&show_article=1&catnum=0)
Pretty interesting.
Enjoy,
Lex
nice lex.
[offsite:ix6t7iwy]"Here are the beginnings of fire and engineering," said lead author Kyle Brown, a doctoral candidate at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.[/offsite:ix6t7iwy]
i seriously doubt it, i would imagine it dates even further back, just that the evidence either hasn't been discovered yet, or never will.
[offsite:ix6t7iwy]It may have given them an advantage over the Neanderthals, who lacked this skill, noted Domanski and Webb, who were not part of the research team.[/offsite:ix6t7iwy]
It may have, but imo there are many other more plausible reasons for the demise of neandertal and in fact neandertal's had access and knowledge of fire so for them to have missed this opportunity would have been slight if humans discovered it.
it's more than likely that having a fire in a hearth or circle (of rocks) as we still do now when camping that it would have been noticed by our ancestors the change in colour and texture and stones by intense heat, this would have also been noticed by neandertal's imho.
cool find though.
boycotteverything
08-14-2009, 10:10 AM
i would imagine it dates even further back. ...having a fire in a hearth or circle (of rocks) as we still do now when camping that it would have been noticed by our ancestorsIt's a bit alarming that that simple truth, known to archaeologists since the beginnings of the field, should seem somehow revelatory to some 'doctoral candidate.' The benefits of firing clay derived from the same set of circumstances. No uber intellect or helpful aliens required. Human beings are quite capable of learning from observation.
Foxtrot Oscar
08-14-2009, 11:09 AM
Learning from observation 101.
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boycotteverything
08-14-2009, 12:12 PM
The dick paster's outa here. Too many commies, I guess.
pack3tg0st
08-14-2009, 01:15 PM
Yah, he got into the whole trap that is politics... he felt that if we didn't agree with all the bullshit he spewed about obama, that we were obamaheads...
Apparently looking at all the data available and trying to keep the rhetoric bullshit in check counts as being a Liberal...
meh...
Snow Crash
08-14-2009, 02:42 PM
The dick paster's outa here. Too many commies, I guess.
Those bloody Marxist, Maoist, Communist, Leftist, Freedom-Hating, Anti-American, Liberal, Soviet, Terrorist-Loving, Stealthmuslim, Tree-Hugging, Anti-White, Politically Correct, Islamofacist, Red, Green, Unpatriotic, Socialist, Radical, Hippie.......... whatevers!
boycotteverything
08-14-2009, 02:50 PM
hey tovarish- pretty good description of my politics! hahahah
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Snow Crash
08-14-2009, 04:14 PM
hey tovarish- pretty good description of my politics! hahahah
;)
The dick paster's outa here. Too many commies, I guess.
hes working on the "return" strategy :wink:
and leave Australia the fuc alone, its a great joint :twisted:
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