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> Because the people across southern Africa all chose to make the tools look the same, it indicates they must have been socially connected, said Amy Way, the pr
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> Because the people across southern Africa all chose to make the tools look the same, it indicates they must have been socially connected, said Amy Way, the project’s lead archaeologist, from the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney.
Peoples hands are also pretty much all shaped shaped alike. Even if there is no communication, people are going to shape stone tools a certain way to optimize using it with your hands. Given the simplify of the tools, I think assuming that must have been in communication is pushing beyond the evidence.
- kjeetgill 4y agoIf it was simply convergent evolution of technique you'd expect to keep finding similar tools across even longer spans of times and regions, well into the bronze age or something, right? You'd expect "rediscovery" of the tool in Europe, the Americas, etc. (Edited)
- svnt 4y agoThis tool was as close to ubiquitous as tools get. Within the paper it is mentioned the tool existed for 50k years or better, and they compare this population from southern African with one spatially and temporally removed in Australia.
- svnt 4y agoThis type of tool was not held in a hand, but mounted in a carrier.
- ncmncm 4y agoThat was addressed in TFA, if you (bother to) read to the end. They compared the tools to Australian tools. Australian hands are like African hands, but the tool designs differ.