So Easy a Caveman can do it??????

Fred.Rowe

Fred.Rowe

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I don't figure there was anything easy about being a neolithic hunter.

Compared to what modern day hunters carry, early meat seeker's knives
were crude. He may have carried an assortment of bladletts, left side of the picture, with the flint core and hammer stone; hide scrapers pictured in the center.
Two awls, used to pierce hide, lie below a stone incised, by it's owner, to keep track of something important in his life. It would have been worn around the neck.
The large black flint knife, I think, may have been used like a counter knife.

Fred

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What bears a moment's thought is that these artifacts were at the height of technology for their day. They were developed by smart people. Anthropologists will tell one that Man of those days was of the same intellectual capacity as those of today. Very creative and highly skilled, they had as capable a skillset for their environment as we do now. Actually, probably moreso, because the idiots perished early.

Very cool stuff, Fred. Thanks for sharing.
 
fitzo said:
What bears a moment's thought is that these artifacts were at the height of technology for their day. They were developed by smart people. Anthropologists will tell one that Man of those days was of the same intellectual capacity as those of today. Very creative and highly skilled, they had as capable a skillset for their environment as we do now. Actually, probably moreso, because the idiots perished early.

Very cool stuff, Fred. Thanks for sharing.
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I think their intellect is evident in these artifacts. The reamed thong hole, in the slate piece, shows a high degree of insight into tool manufacture.
I think that is a keen observation on your part, when you say they were more environmentally attuned. Their survival, absolutely, depended on it.
Come to think of it, ours does too.:jerkit:

Fred
 
yall hear about the show that is supposed to be starting sometime that stars those cavemen from the geico commercial? anyone know when it is supposed to start up?
 
There was a heated controversy a few years back as to how to distinguish intelligence from simple instinct.

First, the hypothesis was that only humans could communicate with each other, and thus were the only ones of "higher intelligence"

This was quickly disproven by the study of whales, birds, wolves, and the like.
The scramble that followed was a new hypothesis that only man had "higher intelligence because he "used" tools....

This, too, was quickly dis-proven by watching sea otters use rocks to break open clams, and also watching birds do similiar things with sticks.

The lastest (and so far standing) measure of higher intelligence is that man is the only creature that "makes" tools........

I submit that the next textbook will read ......."............is the only creature that 'tempers' tools."
 
Researchers have observed certain chimp colonies in the wild that will actually work a point onto a stick to use for prying food (insects, etc.) out of cracks in trees and rocks. I saw it on Nat'l Geographic channel, I believe. Only the females, IIRC; they would grind a stick against a rock to work a point on it.
 
fitzo said:
I saw it on Nat'l Geographic channel, I believe. Only the females, IIRC; they would grind a stick against a rock to work a point on it.
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Yep, which proves another widely held view..........

If it weren't for woman, we'd still all be living in caves.
 
Cooool!!!! Thanks for sharing.:D ;) You Ole Fart!!!! HEHEHEHEHE!!!!
Are you going to bring a few pieces when you come to visit??????;)
 
I wouldn't mind living the stone age life in a cave ----with Raquel Welsh !!!.. I recently saw an interview with her .She spoke just FOUR words in the movie that people still remember for !!!
 
mete said:
I wouldn't mind living the stone age life in a cave ----with Raquel Welsh !!!.. I recently saw an interview with her .She spoke just FOUR words in the movie that people still remember for !!!
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Each word she uttered burned deeply into every guys brain that watched the movie. I know she spoke to me.:jerkit:

Shes still a fox today !:eek: Fred
 
Fred.Rowe said:
Each word she uttered burned deeply into every guys brain that watched the movie.
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Wait a minute... she spoke in that movie?:D

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For as far as we've 'moved forward', I'm not sure if I'm willing to refer to this kind of 'forward' as progress... I watched a dumbass at work yesterday wrestle with getting his laptop to sync with the bluetooth hi-speed internet connection via his new cell phone for almost 2 hours, so he could accomplish a task that required maybe 12 minutes worth of online time. Thanks god for such time-saving devices!:barf: :D

Where's that cave again, and is Raquel still there by any chance...?
 
Thanks for posting the pic, MrPurple. It made my morning. Buff does not cover
what you see here:eek:

How easy it would be to go back to the cave, have Raquel, hold you tightly to her breast and perhaps dream of more, civilized times.

Fred
 
Fred.Rowe said:
What has that got to do with this post?
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every time i hear that saying i think of the geico commercial. and that reminded me of what i heard from a few people that they are supposed to start up a tv series staring the guys from the commercial.
 
Fred Rowe,
Thanks for that pic, that's quite a nice collection you've got there. Is the obsidian from Ohio, I didn't realize that it existed there if it is. I'm no expert, but I do work for a crm firm and have found a number of stone and bone tools during the last few months. Just from looking at them I can assure you there was nothing necessiarily instinctual about them. A lot of them took a lot of forethought and design to manufacture. A good friend at work does a lot of lithic reproduction/lithic analysis and he confirms that although it's simple once you learn it, it definately takes a lot of thought. You have to know the fracture characteristics of the material, and some of the basic physics. One of my favorite quotes from my father is "Primitive doesn't mean 'stupid'". Also, just as an aside, I believe scientists now say that we're the only ones that "habitually" make and use tools, due to the chips using sticks. They have also observed chimps banding together to hunt small monkeys using stones. IIRC they are Dark Forest chimps, I don't recall where.


Sorry for the longwinded post.

Lagarto.
 
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