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Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
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Re: Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
Hurrah for boats!!!
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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Redux: Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
This irritates the crap outta me...
First, they rerun an old article and include no new info...
and then I see this:
Artefacts were found in caves and rock shelters located in Preveli Gorge, where freshwater rivers and streams have eroded rocky sediment. Among the artefacts were hand axes, cleavers, and scrapers made from local quartz rock. According to Runnels, the tools may have been used to hollow out large tree trunks, to turn them into boats.
Read more >> http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/a ... z1AO3vaB1l
But of course! They wouldn't have made tools from locally collected materials to make something as mundane as um... shelters, weapons, other tools, etc.
No! They made these tools to make even more boats!
First, they rerun an old article and include no new info...
and then I see this:
Artefacts were found in caves and rock shelters located in Preveli Gorge, where freshwater rivers and streams have eroded rocky sediment. Among the artefacts were hand axes, cleavers, and scrapers made from local quartz rock. According to Runnels, the tools may have been used to hollow out large tree trunks, to turn them into boats.
Read more >> http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/a ... z1AO3vaB1l
But of course! They wouldn't have made tools from locally collected materials to make something as mundane as um... shelters, weapons, other tools, etc.
No! They made these tools to make even more boats!
"Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
Re: Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
UPDATE!
They still have not found a 130,000 year old surf board!
P.S. Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco is still dead.
They still have not found a 130,000 year old surf board!
P.S. Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Re: Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
P.S. Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco is still dead.
You're dating yourself, B. I remember Chevy Chase doing that line on Weekend Update in 1976.
Oops....now I'm dating myself.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
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Re: Redux: Sea Travel To Crete 130,000 Years Ago
A.k.a. unsupported speculation, commonly better known as wishful thinking.According to Runnels, the tools may have been used to hollow out large tree trunks, to turn them into boats.