Re: Homo Erectus Traits in Hss

On Aug 20, 4:11 pm, Doug Weller <dwel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:40:07 -0000, in sci.archaeology, J.LyonLayden
wrote:

No one here believes that. No archaeologist I've ever read has said that,
one reason being that we have homo erectus wooden implements.
Very famous spears!http://discovermagazine.com/1997/jun/stoneagewood1159http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past26.html#Sch%F6ningen

I guess what I should have was "For instance, believing that the
height of homo erectus technology was the hand-
axe just because we don't have any of their wooden implements is
nonsensical to me."

Maybe archeologists don't say they didn't have a multitude of wooden
implements per say, but in my opinion what they "allow" as possible
for them to have had is so "safe" that they are almost certainly
hitting short of the mark.

I'm referring to statesments like "Homo erectus' technology remained
virtually unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years."

Perhaps their stone technology didn't change for hundreds of thousands
of years. But for all we know there could have been stone-age Teslas
building bamboo aqueducts in the late paleolithic.



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