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"We found specific marks related to the shaping of stone tools. These marks are not new in archaeology - they are also identified on bone fragments in archaeological sites in Europe. Here, the Neanderthals used them to modify the shape of stone tools, starting 500,000 years ago.Again the authors show an amazing lack of ability to write clearly. Bone can be used to produced knapped edges on some types of stone. You'd be hard pressed (pun alert) to find a piece of wood that works as well as bone for that purpose, which in any case wouldn't leave scratch marks such as they have shown. All in all this project and paper are a big fail.
"Not all boomerangs come back. Most are used for hunting and fighting purposes, whereas the returning ones are often children's toys or used for games and learning purposes," Ms Martellotta said.And of course wacking their wives and kids, should they not comply.
If you thought all boomerangs were used solely for throwing and - hopefully - returning then think again, because new research by a team of Griffith University archaeologists suggests that Aboriginal Australians employed the traditional curved wooden objects for so many more purposes.Before some PC editor got ahold of it:
If you thought all boomerangs were used solely for throwing and - hopefully - returning then think again, because new research by a team of Griffith University archaeologists suggests that Aboriginal Australians employed the traditional curved wooden objects for so many more, albeit mundane, purposes.It will always be a sad world where and whensoever PC exists.
This has been common knowledge in the Southern Hemisphere for as long as I can remember.
Which means someone, as usual, has been given a lucrative research grant for exhaustively proving what was already common knowledge. And what's betting these researchers didn't actually do the bleeding obvious and consult an Aboriginal Elder?