Comment on Anon is an anthropologist
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oldest stone axes are like a million years.
We’re not the first smart species.
Comment on Anon is an anthropologist
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oldest stone axes are like a million years.
We’re not the first smart species.
arefx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I just looked this up because it sounds fake and guess what…
Looks like it is!
Hegar@fedia.io 3 months ago
It's not fake. @Dasus is correct. Stone axes, fire control, language, carpentry, glue, ocean travel - heaps of smart things predate homo sapiens sapiens. We're not the first smart species.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What is?
That there are tools older than a million years?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
I genuinely don’t know what or how you “looked it up”. Pleased, do enlighten me. Maybe I made some sort of a mistake?
arefx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
This is a sharp rock, not an axe.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You say potato, I say tomato.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe