Re: Old stone axe

Philip Deitiker wrote:
> "cgjt" <cgjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says in
> news:zXrle.25628$d5.175065@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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> > "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:42963f16$0$88794$dbd41001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> cgjt wrote: T2qle.138532$dP1.487885@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
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> >> > Swedens oldest stone tool recently found
> >> >
> >> > Article (in Swedish)
> >> > http://www.hallandsposten.se/artikel.asp?oid=62068
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> >> > Images
> >> > http://www.hallandsposten.se/visabild.asp?oid=62069
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> >> > or without javascript
> >> > http://www.hallandsposten.se/res/pub/62069/STENYXA_orig_SE.jpg
> >> > http://www.hallandsposten.se/res/pub/62071/STENYXA3_orig_SE.jp
> >> > g
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> >> > Found when plowing a field many years ago, it has been hidden
> >> > in a chest of drawers on a farm (Fjälldalens gård) outside
> >> > Harplinge, in Halland. According to archaeologist Lennart
> >> > Carlie it is made of basalt from the Ruhr district in Germany
> >> > and brought here during the Eem interglacial.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > JerryT
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> >> "" En sensationell arkeologisk upptäckt har gjorts
> >> i Harplinge. Där har det hittills äldsta stenverktyget
> >> i Sverige påträffats och fyndet bevisar att människor
> >> levde i Halland före den senaste istiden.
> >> Det verktyg man funnit är en så kallad handkil
> >> som kopplas samman med människans äldre
> >> föregångare, homo neanderthalensis och
> >> homo erectus. Dessa levde i grova drag omkring
> >> 30 000-110 000 år före Kristus, under den så
> >> kallade eeminterglacialen.""
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> >>
> >> Wow! That is Middle-Paleolithicum
> >> Moustérien
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> >> P.A.
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> > If it is real and not brought here by some viking it is
> > fascinating that it 'survived' the ice.
> >
> > JerryT
> >
> > PS: Don´t tell Philip, he might boil dry.
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> I thought you plonked me?
> Secondarily, I saw about 50 or so stone axes and several dozen copper
> and metal axes in Japan. Ax heads are about a million year old
> technology, not to much surprising then the Neandertals made them.
> The oldest hand axes are 2.6 million years and found in africa.

The earliest stone tools are about 2.6 million years old, these are not
handaxes.
http://tinyurl.com/bpxaa

The earliest handaxes show up at Olduvai during the early Acheulean at
about 1.6 million years ago (middle of Bed II).

MD Leakey
1971 Olduvai Gorge; volume 3, excavations in beds I and II, 1960- 1963
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.




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