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Apparently we, or one of our cousins, were building things 500,000. Cool discovery.Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it’s almost half a million years old.
The simple structure — found along a riverbank in Zambia — is made up of two interlocking logs, with a notch deliberately crafted into the upper piece to allow them to fit together at right angles, according to a new study of cut marks made by stone tools.
Geoff Duller, a professor of geography and Earth sciences at the University of Aberystwyth in the United Kingdom, was part of the team that made the discovery in 2019. He said the structure, excavated upstream of Kalambo Falls near Zambia’s border with Tanzania, probably would have been part of a wooden platform used as a walkway, to keep food or firewood dry or perhaps as a base on which to build a dwelling. A digging stick and other wooden tools were found at the same site.
A pre-historic genius-------too bad we will never know their names...........great newsApparently we, or one of our cousins, were building things 500,000. Cool discovery.
On what basis is it claimed that this thing is 500,000 years old?Apparently we, or one of our cousins, were building things 500,000. Cool discovery.
It was neither.Apparently we, or one of our cousins, were building things 500,000. Cool discovery.
We do know their names.A pre-historic genius-------too bad we will never know their names...........great news
??????????? There were no Sumerians 500,000 years ago. Nor any writing of any kind.It was neither.
We do know their names.
If you want to know their names, then you need only read Sumerian texts translated and published in various archaeology journals like the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Journal of the Ancient Near East, the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Antiquity, and others.
If you do read them, you will see how the Greeks erred in translating a particular word as "underworld" which later morphed into "Hell." Since the early Greeks believed in a flat Earth, they could not comprehend that something "down under" was actually down under the equator.
Equally unfortunate is the fact that the Greeks did not have access to Sumerian texts we have now, so had they read that this king or that king had made ships from this "underworld" laden with gold moor at his ports, they might have realized it was not a mythical place.
Had they read other texts which describe this "underworld" as a land with gold and having a great river flowing out of the mountains to the sea" -- which by the way is a perfect description of the Zambesi River -- they might have also realized it was not a mythical place.
It is dated by luminescence to at least 476 ± 23 kyr ago.On what basis is it claimed that this thing is 500,000 years old?
I never said there was.??????????? There were no Sumerians 500,000 years ago. Nor any writing of any kind.
Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago
In the African context, indirect evidence for woodworking comes from use-wear traces and residues on Early Pleistocene stone tools in East Africa (Oldowan, Acheulean)14,15,16. Actual wood objects are found in Mid-Pleistocene waterlogged deposits in southern Africa with Acheulean and Middle Stone Age tools. At Kalambo Falls, wood was recovered from Acheulean horizons in the 1950s–1960s (sites A and B), but taphonomic processes removed evidence of intentional shaping from most pieces17. A wood chip and three objects with transverse notches raised the possibility of intentional modification. Attempts to date the wood gave minimum ages18,19,20. At Amanzi Springs, South Africa, a single stick with a possible chop mark was reported from waterlogged Acheulean deposits excavated in the 1960s21. The deposits were radiometrically dated (approximately 404–390 kyr), with wood found in recent excavations but without evidence of modification10. The earliest clearly modified wood object, collected in 1952 from spring deposits at Florisbad, South Africa, was associated with Middle Stone Age tools and hominin remains (Homo helmei)22. The object’s tip shows cutmarks and fine striations23, but its location relative to dated deposits is uncertain24.
Ancient “gates of hell” are invariably located on or around fissures that emit large amounts of toxic gasses.The Egyptians knew about it, too. Right around 2500 BCE or so a couple of their ships apparently sunk in a storm. The Greeks and Romans didn't know anything about it, and the Greeks actually believed it was "Hell." Why? I don't know. You'd have to ask Berossus but seeing how he's dead we'd have to have a séance and honestly, I wouldn't mind because I'd really like to know what the hell Berossus was thinking.
I said the Sumerians said there were people living and working there 450,000 years ago
No. Neanderthals and Denisovans have at least 100,000 years on Sapiens.450,000 years ago, there were no "Sumerians". In fact, there were not even any H. Sapiens, they would not even evolve for another 150 ky.
Now notice, we are not even on the image. At the point in time you are talking about, H Heidelbergensis was the most advanced "human" on the planet. See H Neanderthal? They evolved at around the same time we did..
No. Neanderthals and Denisovans have at least 100,000 years on Sapiens.
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