Comment on Anon is an anthropologist

Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• arefx@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just looked this up because it sounds fake and guess what…

  Looks like it is!

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is?

    That there are tools older than a million years?

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

    The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping off one, or a few, flakes off using another stone. Oldowan tools were used during the Lower Paleolithic period, 2.9 million years ago up until at least 1.7 million years ago (Ma), by ancient Hominins (early humans) across much of Africa. This technological industry was followed by the more sophisticated Acheulean industry (two sites associated with Homo erectus at Gona in the Afar Region of Ethiopia dating from 1.5 and 1.26 million years ago have both Oldowan and Acheulean tools[2]).

    I genuinely don’t know what or how you “looked it up”. Pleased, do enlighten me. Maybe I made some sort of a mistake?

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    • arefx@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a sharp rock, not an axe.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You say potato, I say tomato.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe

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