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1WorldHope

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1. I'm not a professional in this area. But, I'd like to share some thoughts.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2023, 05:17 PM

Sep 2023

I don't understand why it is so hard to imagine the earliest of humans using wood to make things. Beavers cut down trees and build dams. We lived like animals with animals. Animals are not stupid. Why would early humans be unable to learn from their environment and other animals? Survival in the "wild" (the natural world before we destroyed it) requires a different set of skills and awareness that most of us have lost and maybe, can't even relate to.

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Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia [View all] muriel_volestrangler Sep 2023 OP

I'm not a professional in this area. But, I'd like to share some thoughts. 1WorldHope Sep 2023 #1

Agree. The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2023 #2

I don't think that's what's thought. It's just that wooden structure ususally don't... brush Sep 2023 #3

It says that it was thought that humans' use of wood was limited Bristlecone Sep 2023 #4

True, but quite often that's whats assumed of societies in Africa... brush Sep 2023 #6

Makes sense Bristlecone Sep 2023 #7

It's a credit to this team that they didn't do that. brush Sep 2023 #9

That's because that's what the evidence showed. cab67 Sep 2023 #18

I think the awareness that babies have gets smothered by cultural norms at a very young age. What a housecat Sep 2023 #13

Exactly, our assumptions limit us. 1WorldHope Sep 2023 #21

KNR and thank you for sharing this fascinating information. niyad Sep 2023 #5

My Tongue in cheek response Dem_in_Nebr. Sep 2023 #8

interstellar log cabin skills prodigitalson Sep 2023 #11

what species of hominid did this? prodigitalson Sep 2023 #10

From the second link: Sky Jewels Sep 2023 #14

Thanks prodigitalson Sep 2023 #20

It wasn't that scientists didn't think it was possible Red Mountain Sep 2023 #12

Got wood? LudwigPastorius Sep 2023 #15

500M year Tool Man Pas-de-Calais Sep 2023 #16

They call it the Stone Age because that's about all that survived this long Warpy Sep 2023 #17

respectfully disagree on one point cab67 Sep 2023 #19

Then how was one dated to 560,000 years ago found in sediment in England? Warpy Sep 2023 #25

No mention of wood there muriel_volestrangler Sep 2023 #26

............ Warpy Sep 2023 #27

Really? When the article specifically says it was for butchering? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2023 #28

500,000 years ago is pre-Neanderthal - no, these didn't have bigger brains than us muriel_volestrangler Sep 2023 #22

It was H. Heidelbergensis, thought to be the ancestor species Warpy Sep 2023 #24

And the list of *intelligent* species who went extinct grows longer again. eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 #23

Archaeologists Uncover Notched Logs That May Be the Oldest Known Wooden Structure Judi Lynn Sep 2023 #29