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Old 19th April 2012, 10:57 PM   #10
VANDOO
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THE DIET OF HOMO ERECTIS WOULD HELP CLARIFY USE. IF HE ATE PRIMARLY PLANTS, ROOTS, GRUBS, TERMITES ECT WE COULD SEE THIS TOOL USED TO SCRAPE OFF STRIPS OF BARK, CRACK NUTS, POKE A HOLE IN A TERMITE MOUND OR CHOP INTO A ROTTEN LOG LOOKING FOR GRUBS. IT MAY HAVE BEEN USED TO SHAPE A DIGGING STICK OR OTHER THINGS AS WELL.
THE CLOSEST WE CAN COME TO THIS IN HISTORICAL TIMES WOULD BE SOME TRIBES OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS. THEY HUNTED AS WELL AS FORAGED FOR FOOD I SUSPECT THESE HAND AX APPLIED MORE TO THE FORAGING TYPE OF LIFESTYLE.
AS TO NOT HAVING CORD OR ROPE WE CAN'T BE SURE AS NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE SURVIVED. ABUNDENT FIBERS DO OCCUR IN NATURE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED AS THEY WERE. TREE BARK, FIBEROUS GRASS, ANIMAL HIDES, PALM AND PANDANUS FIBERS AND LEAVES ECT.
WE CAN REST ASSURED THIS SHAPE WAS DESIGNED BY THE MAKERS AND HAD SPECIFIC USES AS THEY WIDELY REPEATED THE FORM. THEY MAY HAVE EVEN USED IT TO FASHON WOODEN WEAPONS, CLUBS THROWING STICKS ECT BUT THESE WOULD HAVE LEFT NO TRACES EITHER.
WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT HOW INTELLEGENT PRIMATIVE MAN WAS OR HOW ADVANCED HE WAS. WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT HOW INTELLEGENT MANY LIVING SPECIES ARE AND WE HAVE THEM TO STUDY SO THOSE IN THE FAR PAST WILL REMAIN LARGELY UNKNOWN.
ARCHEOLOGY IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE SO MUCH MATERIAL IS GONE AND CANNOT BE FOUND AND MANY OF THE THINGS FOUND CAN BE MISINTERPETED OR BRING UP MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS. BUT MUCH HAS BEEN LEARNED ITS SORT OF LIKE A CONNECT THE DOTS PICTURE TOO COMPLICATED TO TELL WHAT IT IS UNTIL ENOUGH DOTS HAVE BEEN CONNECTED.
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