Oldest Tool! Now WHO's the Fool?

From: Ed Conrad (edconrad_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/04/04


Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:22:13 GMT


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>> There has been some debate about the oldest
>> man-made tool.
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>> The oldest man-made tolld dates back 280,000,000 years
>> -- give or take a few centuries.
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>> I'is the handcarved piece of wood carved -- into a handle
>> for a weapon or a tool (possibly both).
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>> It was manufactured during the Carboniferous Period
>> -- you know, while coal was being formed -- and, in fact,
>> it's SO old that the wood has turned to coal.
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>> Heck, I'll even prove it with pictures.
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>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-001S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
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Ever pick up a snake to kill a stick?.
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> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/pp/MVC-020S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/pp/MVC-021S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/pp/MVC-022S.JPG
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It might well be man's oldest, most workable "tool"
(also found between anthracite veins.)
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Ed Conrad
> http://www.edconrad.com
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Ed Conrad
> http://www.edconrad.com
> Man as Old as Coal (maybe a great deal older)
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>> DISCOVERIES IN CARBONIFEROUS STRATA
>> (Time to Burn the Anthropology Textbooks)
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>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg
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>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix5/MVC-002S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Bones/MVC-006S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg
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>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-013F.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-012F.JPG
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>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-001S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG
> > http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
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>> Here's a piece of petrified bone still embedded in slate.
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> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/S1/MVC-019S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/S1/MVC-018S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/S1/MVC-020S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/S1/MVC-021S.JPG
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>>Petrified claw:
>> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/KeySpecimen\MVC-011S.JPG



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