On 9.3.2025. 6:49, Primum Sapienti wrote:
Mario Petrinovic wrote:
On 6.3.2025. 17:40, erik simpson wrote:
Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago
Ignacio de la Torre, Luc Doyon, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Rafael Mora,
Ipyana Mwakyoma, Jackson K. Njau, Renata F. Peters, Angeliki
Theodoropoulou & Francesco d’Errico
Abstract
Recent evidence indicates that the emergence of stone tool technology
occurred before the appearance of the genus Homo1 and may potentially
be traced back deep into the primate evolutionary line2. Conversely,
osseous technologies are apparently exclusive of later hominins from
approximately 2 million years ago (Ma)3,4, whereas the earliest
systematic production of bone tools is currently restricted to
European Acheulean sites 400–250 thousand years ago5,6. Here we
document an assemblage of bone tools shaped by knapping found within
a single stratigraphic horizon at Olduvai Gorge dated to 1.5 Ma.
Large mammal limb bone fragments, mostly from hippopotamus and
elephant, were shaped to produce various tools, including massive
elongated implements. Before our discovery, bone artefact production
in pre-Middle Stone Age African contexts was widely considered as
episodic, expedient and unrepresentative of early Homo toolkits.
However, our results demonstrate that at the transition between the
Oldowan and the early Acheulean, East African hominins developed an
original cultural innovation that entailed a transfer and adaptation
of knapping skills from stone to bone. By producing technologically
and morphologically standardized bone tools, early Acheulean
toolmakers unravelled technological repertoires that were previously
thought to have appeared routinely more than 1 million years later.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08652-5. Open access
So, did those who were persuading us into thinking that this
was episodic, apologize? Or should we encounter misconceptions like
this over and over again, just because this is "science", and science
doesn't think.
The conclusion that this used to be considered episodic
was based on the previous body of evidence. But as the
authors above state
"Before our discovery, bone artefact production
in pre-Middle Stone Age African contexts was
widely considered as episodic, expedient and
unrepresentative of early Homo toolkits."
New finds, paradigms change
This isn't the only evidence that we have about past, we have a lot of
evidence. The problem is in the wrong interpretation of evidence, which
is obvious. The interpretation of our raised forehead was that this gave
us intelligence. The interpretation of humans and animals was that
humans are intelligent, and animals aren't. A mountain of wrong interpretations, over and over again. There is no excuse for wrong interpretation, being so wrong is stupid there is no way around it. How
come I had the right interpretation?
See, they willingly choose to neglect some evidence. For example, they
find 1.5 million old peach endocarp in China, which is identical to
today's peach endocarp. Every plant changes when domesticated. This
evidence says that people domesticated peaches at least 1.5 mya. They
find ungulate tracks going parallel to lake margin 1.5 my old. The only interpretation can be that those ungulates were herd by humans. But
scientists neglect this crucial evidence without blinking an eye just
like that, and continue to support the idea that large brain gives you intelligence, despite the fact that they found intelligent human species
with small brains. This all is a sea of stupidity. Wrong interpretation
after wrong interpretation, massive negligence of crucial evidence.
Recently a paper came out, which talks about human footprints. They do
mention Laetoli footprints, they do mention 1.5 old human footprints
(Koobi Fora), but not a single word about the most important of them
all, the Trachilos footprints. And there is always some excuse for this. Somebody is messing big time with this science, this foul behavior has
to be addressed, instead we constantly have excuses for such behavior.
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