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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/...tcmp=obnetwork
Stone tools that are half a million years old have been unearthed in Israel — and they still have traces of elephant fat clinging to them.
The new discovery shows that ancient humans used tools to process and butcher large animals, researchers say.
Though anthropologists had strongly suspected that early humans used tools to break down a carcass for its muscle, fat and marrow, "there was no smoking gun to show that the stone tools were, indeed, used for these kinds of tasks," said study co-author Ran Barkai, a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University in Israel. [In Photos: Tracing the Invention of Ancient Stone Toolmaking]
Ancient toolmaking
Between 1.8 million and 1.5 million years ago, early humans underwent two dramatic changes. First, the brains of erectus got much bigger. Then, soon after, the ancient hominins stopped using a toolmaking method in which they'd bash hard rocks against other stones that could form an edge. Instead, these early humans began to use a more sophisticated toolmaking method known as Acheulean technology, in which the two faces of hand axes or scrapers are flaked off to form a blade, archaeological evidence shows.
Many scientists say these two developments are linked; the greater caloric needs of brainy humans would have required them to hunt or scavenge animals, and then butcher them to get at their meat and fat — and that required more advanced toolmaking technology, scientists have hypothesized.
Early humans used Acheulean technology of roughly the same size and shape for more than a million years, and very similar-looking tools have been found throughout the world. Archaeologists often find the tools at sites alongside animal bones, such as mammoth and elephant bones discovered at Paleolithic sites in the Levant in southwestern Asia, with cut marks and signs of breakage to extract marrow. But in these instances, the evidence that the humans used the tools to butcher animals was still cir stantial.
Well-preserved site
In 2004, Barkai and his colleagues were excavating a quarry in Revadim, Israel, that held tens of thousands of well-preserved flint tools and thousands of animal bones from species such as wild aurochs, goats, gazelles and deer. But the site also contained bones from the straight-tusked elephant, a now-extinct pachyderm similar to the modern-day Asian elephant. The newest remains at the site were at least 300,000 to 500,000 years old.
In one spot, the team discovered three small hand axes and scrapers not far from a neatly cut elephant tusk. A chemical analysis of a mysterious residue on the hand axes revealed it was fat from a straight-tusked elephant.
The team also analyzed the wear on the surfaces of the tools, and even created replicas of the blades, to determine how they would have been used. Based on those recreations, the team determined that the hand ax made an excellent multipurpose tool that would have been good for cutting bones, sinew and hide. The scraper, with its slimmer and more fragile blade, was ideal for separating the fur, fat and muscle, they found.
Perfect tools
The new discovery supports the notion that tool development was a key factor in humans' ability to eat more meat at this point in human history.
"In order to be able to use animal resources, they needed to have tools in order to cut and butcher," Barkai told Live Science.
The results may also help to explain why tools didn't change for such a long period: They didn't need to, Barkai said.
"These tools enabled them to survive and thrive for over 1 million years," Barkai said. "They fit the needs of these hominins."
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you didn't do well in school, did you
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Bend over, I'll show you an ancient tool.
There's gotta be something wrong here.. 6,000 years tops.
stopped reading at tlong
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I was thinking Tlong was the ancient tool.
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I have to agree. You see I am all about finding new evidence. What you see me disagree on are the bull numbers they like to toss out there.,
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Like any asshole including myself has the right to say what took place 50,000 years ago and they want to say Millions?
Does anyone in the Science world even know what the number 1,000,000 really means? If they did they wouldn't just toss it out there like beads on mardi gras
First off you have to look at the solar system and our earth and get an idea on how long it can stay in orbit and function. You have to look at photographs of Niagara falls,rivers,and other land formations that suffer from erosion. If you have an old 1929 camper your grandfather left you and it needs a new roof the manufacture will not honor the warranty they know the life of the camper is no more than 40-50 years.
So if your in California and another river or lake dries out and you see an old camper that is rusty and needs a new roof you don't say "hey check out this old camper I dug out of that dried up river bed it could be at 1,000 years old"
I know i'm going to get the little brains to chime in on how there were no campers 1,000 years ago but the point i'm making for the medium size brains is you have to know what your talking about or else just say.
"Scientist have found Elephant cooking tools in a cave that could be 1,000s of years old maybe even 90,000 years or more."
Why not at least keep it within possible time that is most likely? How can you find a fossil that is 5 Million years old on a planet that may be only 1 million years old?
Before you reply with lame outdated insults and pull out the Blake and Chump card "Well mouse how old is the earth" Keep in mind these same Scientist that bull you with how and when the big bang took place and fill the "Science" and "Biology" texts books with art work they are the same assholes that can't tell you what really happened to the Mayans or who and how the Pyramids were constructed. they have no answer for Stonehenge, and they can't even figure out how to cure the common cold.
Also Science said Asbestos is ok to play in tobacco is good for you and that man Evolved from an ape.
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All that typing could have been instead used to lay out your design theory
I will when I find someone who is interested.
One thing The Evolutionists and Science will never do.
When Scientist find tools or fossils that are not in the layer of earth they previously thought they will never say "maybe we are off on the timeline the Earth and man are not millions of years old as we thought.
Instead they just change the dates on the geological column,
For example If Avante was to break the 100 yard dash record at a high school where Blake was the principle. They wouldn't recognize Avante and give him the record they would just say you know our football field must be 5 yards to small lets make it longer.
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