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I wonder who they think they can blame the tools on? Aliens? animals? Ha
The simple answer is that their imaginary dates are nonsense.
‘Predate humans’: Stone tools made 3.3mn years ago found in Kenya
http://rt.com/news/260625-oldest-stone-tools-humans/
Since then, conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools by our ancestors – that is, chipping away flakes from a stone to make a tool – were linked to the emergence of the genus Homo. The premise was that our lineage alone took the cognitive leap of hitting stones together to strike off sharp flakes, and that this was the foundation of our evolutionary success. Scientists thought this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savanna grasslands; our ancestors innovated with new tools to help them survive in an evolving landscape.
Over the last few decades, however, subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4-2.3 Ma. By necessity, there’s been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.
A series of papers published in rapid succession in early 2015 have solidified these ideas into an emerging paradigm shift in paleoanthropology: the fossil record of the genus Homo now extends back to 2.8 Ma in the Ethiopian Afar; cranial and post-cranial diversity in early Homo is much wider that previously thought, already evincing several distinct lineages by 2 Ma; and Australopithecus africanus and other Pleistocene hominins, traditionally considered not to have made stone tools, have a human-like trabecular bone pattern in their hand bones that’s consistent with tool use.
While it is tempting to assume that these earliest artifacts were made by members of our genus Homo, we urge caution. It’s extremely rare to be able to pinpoint what fossil species made which stone tools through most of prehistory, unless there was only one hominin species living at the time, or until we find a fossil skeleton still holding a stone tool in its hand.
While the Lomekwi knappers certainly made sharp-edged flakes from stone cores, the tools' size and the battering marks on their surfaces suggest they were doing something different as well. And we know they were in a more wooded environment with access to various plant resources. We’re conducting experimental work to help reconstruct how the tools were used.
It grabs me as a sick joke. Only inside your mind do those exist. You would have more credibility saying Sasquatch did it! At least thousands of people claim to have seen those. Always nice to see evolution get one right in the chops.
You laugh, but baboons have been known to fling rocks at humans... one day they'll take us by surprise.
It's not about a species having definitely existed, it's a theory. Like most things to do with ancient history and the tiny little remnants we find. Who knows, if the world still exists far enough into the future that society as we know it is no longer remembered, remnants of our lives may cause the exact same discussions.
No, what I meant to say was that the mountain of evidence supporting evolution is conclusive. It's just that the creationists keep trying to chip away at it with nothing more than ice picks.
Great so the dates mean that the tools do not fit into the evolutionary timescale posited by science.
It is precisely the evidence and your beliefs that come into question here. If tools from clovis man happened to be a bad fit for your dating dreamscape I guess you would do the same thing. Look for monkeys that dunnit. Sad.
If those far in the future archaeologists are anything like the ones of today, anything they find will be immediately assumed to have "some religious significance".
This is an example of not being able to see the forest for all the trees.
I don't know what your question (if-any) is
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/modern-human-evolution/when/index.html
Even the 'Apes' use tools, instinctively
and 'Man' has a need 'to tool himself up'
I know the origin. Man made them. Why not face it? Are you that desperate to align with so called science that you lose contact with the obvious?Perhaps the real question is one of perception?
It's true than no other species has built factories, but that doesn't negate their ability to turn an object into a rudimentary tool, does it?
I can imagine though that for those in the community who believe in Young Earth Creationism
this would be an issue....
The simple fact is that we'll never know the origin of these tools precisely - and that humans are the planets supreme tool users. (Unless there's Aliens knocking about somewhere)
All the evidence for evolving agrees with the bible and started at creation with the created kinds. Someone sold you a bridge real cheap I see.No, what I meant to say was that the mountain of evidence supporting evolution is conclusive. It's just that the creationists keep trying to chip away at it with nothing more than ice picks.
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