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How Do We Know When a Hunk of Rock Is Actually a Stone Tool?
- boona 10y agoWhen research money is running out and you haven't come up with anything of substance yet? Jk, it's an interesting article thank you for sharing.
- taneq 10y agoLaughs aside, clearly there's a conflict of interest here. While I'm sure the vast majority of archeologists are ethical, it must still add some amount of unconscious bias to a question that already depends so heavily on interpretation.
- diogenescynic 10y agoSimilarly, think about all the academic careers built on 'disproving' that Shakespeare authored his plays--which is especially troubling because so many academics put so much importance on their own college degrees they just have to chip away at the reputation of someone who didn't have one...
- awinter-py 10y agosee also manuport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuport, an object moved or carried without being worked.
- douche 10y agoFlying Spaghetti Monster, is some future archaeologist is going to have a field day with the piles and piles of manuports I picked out of my dad's garden and hauled off into the woods.
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- kiliantics 10y agotl;dr not enough pictures of rocks, very disappoint
- kazinator 10y agoWe know that a seemingly useless piece of rock is actually a tool when it carries the markings indicating certification by IEEE POSIX and The Open Group.
- pvaldes 10y agoI was about to say "is this china made in China?", but yours is much better
- vacri 10y agoWell, it depends on whether or not the archaeologists were caught knapping...