/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15775744
Shaping marks on the upper surfaces and on the underlying tree trunk (arrows indicating cutmarks)

>>15775746
Archaeologists such as Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool, the leader of the expedition that uncovered the structure, believe that wooden tools were potentially even more common than stone tools in the Stone Age, although due to rapid decay of wood in soil, archaeologists could not find such tools. Mentioning the likely co-evolution of wooden and stone tools, they link the innovation shown by the Kalambo structure to the later invention of hafting, with several parts linked together in a single tool.

The timing of the construction of the Kalambo structure coincides with a period of forest coverage of the Kalambo River basin. Barham's team believes the high resource availability of the environment, a permanently elevated water table, and the improvement brought by constructing elevated structures above the floodplain created a habitat conducive to sustained occupation.

The discovery predates the appearance of Homo sapiens by more than 100,000 years. As no hominin remains have been discovered at Kalambo Falls, no conclusive attribution has been made, although a 300,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis skull has been found at another Zambian site.

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>>15775744
It's a heckin sensation! Extraordinary! What do you think, /sci/?

gram hancock vindicated again.

>>15775773
BASED

>>15775773
This. Every single thing he said has turned out to be true.

.

>>15775757
>476,000 years old
Weren't hominids already making tools and shit 3 million years ago? This is nothing surprising. Unless, of course, you really believe that lack of discovered tools (other than stone ones) means that stone tools were the only ones used, and not that the stone ones are by far the most likely to be preserved over such big time period.

>>15775744
those massive logs? yea, that was me, my bad

>>15775746
>>15775744
farcical

>>15777514
>Weren't hominids already making tools and shit 3 million years ago?
Yes, stone age began around 2,5 million years ago, 400k years ago in Africa means that it might have been late homo erectus or late homo heidelbergensis making these tools. No aliens this time.

>>15775773
No you're an idiot, learn a bit about antrophology.
Here's a 10 minute long stone age recap for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8bDJD5x1g

>>15778535
>no mention of previous interglacials which reached temperatures even warmer than the current one

>>15779815
If your're a hominid in africa youre more bothered by the cycles of vegetation and desert on Sahara. Interglacials in europe aren't important.

>>15777611
That's a very ignorant point of view.

>>15775744
looks like two slugs having sex

>>15780180
>neanderthals in africa
>denisovans in africa