sabbah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago‘Giant’ 300,000-year-old handaxes unearthed in Kentwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11cross-posted to: science@beehaw.org
arrow-up194arrow-down1external-link‘Giant’ 300,000-year-old handaxes unearthed in Kentwww.theguardian.comsabbah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: science@beehaw.org
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoMammoths only went extinct about 4,000 years ago, so realistically we should be seeing other “giant axes” if they were for processing mammoths. I’d guess they were more specialized tools for some sort of early construction, which is kind of even more crazy.
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Mammoths only went extinct about 4,000 years ago, so realistically we should be seeing other “giant axes” if they were for processing mammoths.
I’d guess they were more specialized tools for some sort of early construction, which is kind of even more crazy.
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