Something a little different

Andrew · 20th February 2005, 03:50 AM

Chert hand axe?

Rick · 20th February 2005, 03:55 AM

A tool / axe from lump copper ?

Rivkin · 20th February 2005, 04:03 AM

pre-historic axe/knife ?

Conogre · 20th February 2005, 04:22 AM

dino-poop?

Jeff D · 20th February 2005, 04:25 AM

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ariel · 20th February 2005, 05:58 AM

Is it signed by Asadullah?

Mark · 20th February 2005, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Conogre

dino-poop?

LOL! I think that is what Andrew was getting at in his first post.

It is an Acheulean era hand axe or chopper found along the Omo river in Ethiopia (surface find). This is the same place were the oldest dated remains of Homo sapiens have been found, recently in the news because they were re-dated to 190,000 years ago, which I think 50 or 60,000 years older than originally thought.

This piece was not even made by a modern human, but by Homo erectus, somewhere between 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago.

tom hyle · 20th February 2005, 03:06 PM

That was my first thought, too, but isn't it small for the type?

Battara · 20th February 2005, 03:56 PM

So...I guess that means that it's not Moro.

Mark · 20th February 2005, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tom hyle

That was my first thought, too, but isn't it small for the type?

Not really, if you consider the size of Homo erectus. It fits pretty nicely in my had, so I would acutally say that it is a little big. The picture is pretty much actual size. Other examples that I have handled (my Dad picked up three in the area -- I was too busy goofing around with by high school friends to look down), were about 3 inches long. I have also seen casts of some of about that size as well.

The more I look at it, the more I think I should give it to a museum, or maybe my alma mater. Its really a priceless artifact.

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