According to a fascinating report from Collin Barras of the BBC, archeologists in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, have been digging up crude stone tools that date back thousands of years β tools that were fashioned by non-human primates.Which means something kind of extraordinary:"The tools are crude. A chimpanzee or monkey stone hammer is hardly a work of art to rival the beauty of an ancient human hand axe. But that's not the point. These primates have developed a culture that makes routine use of a stone-based technology. That means they have entered the Stone Age." For reference, here are a few of the things humans did during the Stone Age:Learned to control fire.Domesticated the dog. Started making pottery.Invented canoes.
Everyone thinks apes are just animals until you discover a super-advanced city out in the middle of Africa that's cloaked by an invisible forcefield that's ran by apes who are smarter than any human
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Quote from: gatsby on December 07, 2015, 08:38:08 AMSpoilerwowI'm pretty sure that's just a dog as wellhmm :/
I'm glad to see isis have begun to make tools. Good for them.
Quote from: Elegiac on December 07, 2015, 08:56:19 AMQuote from: gatsby on December 07, 2015, 08:38:08 AMSpoilerwowI'm pretty sure that's just a dog as wellhmm :/it's the fox clan initiation
There's even settlements of humans that haven't discovered how fire works.
Until they discover how to create memes I remain unimpressed. There's even settlements of humans that haven't discovered how memes works.
Quote from: Jono on December 07, 2015, 04:38:47 AMEveryone thinks apes are just animals until you discover a super-advanced city out in the middle of Africa that's cloaked by an invisible forcefield that's ran by apes who are smarter than any human What was this from?
Some chimps have entered the Stone Age.
