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This wooden spear is 400,00 years old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Spear
The Schöningen spears have been updated to 300,000 years old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears
Actually if you read the part where they date these spears they give a range that includes as far back as 400,000. So it might be older or might not be.
Re-read it again.
I’ve edited it for clairty. Let me summarise this.
Originally assumed to be 400,000 years old due to location.
Later testing shows 300,000 years.
All studies so far say that they are either of these two ranges.
Point 3 is a nothing statement because scientists disagree and thus we have leave it open-ended, even though actual testing of the site points to 300,000 years.
tl;dr: We assumed it was 400,000. We tested and it was actually 300,000. We cant confirm 100%, so we will say it could be either.
so, we have at least 2 common interests : aigen and sticks 🤣
the earliest and the latest tools :)
Haha hopefully not the last tool we make.
I was walking in a forest today and there was so many sticks i wanted to pick up! I had to leave them because animals need them more than I do.
Someone even stacked them so I took a photo
https://imgur.com/dRRftWK
i made a rather reliable stick from a broken holly branch I've found years ago. When i enter the forest with a "walking stick" already in hand, i no longer feel that need to pick up sticks
somehow hacked that strange desire to pick up sticks 🤷
Both used extensively for crude pornography.
Do you think of pornography when somebody talks about printing too?
or the internet?
You may want to sit down for this.