The Neolithic Toolkit - Archaeology Magazine

[code4pay]

It will be interesting to see the Veritas interpretation of the bone chisel )
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/15...lithic-toolkit

[DoctorBobski]

That was a great read! Thanks for posting it.

[Robson Valley]

Great! For me, the intriuging part would be to make replica(?) tools and use them.
Matching the tool marks would be a satisfaction. It's been done with flint & obsidian
on animal bones. If that's the state of woorworking, 7,500 yrs ago, how much must have
gone on before that to learn the useful designs of the joints?

For wod carvings, I've been using a log mallet and wooden wedges for years.
Just seemed the logical thing to do without spending any money.
I can get lots of bison (aka buffalo) femur. Time for chisels?

Veritas will give us our choice of cattle breed source.

[Doggie]

It will be interesting to see the Veritas interpretation of the bone chisel )

Obviously the origin of "Firmer" is "Femur" Maybe "sockets" too. No bones about it!

[Evanism]

In 7000 years they will be scratching their heads in how we did as we do.

The Internet will have made information go "dark" after ~2000. It will look like some horrible cataclysm hit. Writing stopped, vast reams of knowledge vaporized and humanity appeared to stop communicating.

They will stare in marvel at our primitive 3d printers, CNC, laser engraving and wonder how we ever made anything!

"Dad, how did those knuckle dragging neo-techs ever escape antibiotic resistance?" or "how did they make a pen or cabinet without a molecular recombinerator?"

"Son, it is disgusting. They used their filthy hands. They actually handled primitive metal sticks, rods and blades and hacked away all the bits that were in excess of the end product they desired!. As unbelievable as it sounds, they used electricity in stupendous quantity to make light and fantastically noisy machines remove "scrap" and "dust" until they had hacked a shape. Worse still, it appears they sacrificed animals and boiled them into protein glue to work as an adhesive. It's so fantastically primitive. It's inconceivable they survived at all."

....That's if we don't turn the globe into a radioactive wasteland, ice cube, nanobot gray goo or cook ourselves into a Venus with runaway greenhouse feedbacks.

Ah, those 7000 year old Germans and their 10 foot thick oaks.....idyllic!