The Sound Of Settled Science

UPI;

Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
 
When the stone tools were first unearthed, researchers suspected there was something familiar about them. Scientists took note of the flute-like grooves texturing the sides of the stone points.
 
The tools examined for the study were found in Manayzah in Yemen and Ad-Dahariz in Oman, researchers said.
 
“We recognized this technique as … probably the most famous of the prehistoric techniques used in the American continent,” lead researcher Remy Crassard, head of archaeology at the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences, told UPI. “It took us little time to recognize it, but it took us more time to understand why fluting was present in Arabia.”

By “understand”, they mean “take a wild ass guess”.

28 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. “The same technology”. Are you serious? 5000 years apart and 13,000 miles away? There are only so many ways to flake an arrowhead. Bound to be repeats.

    1. I suggest the 1st Immigrants claim Saudi And Yemen, and make reservations out of them. Queen Trudeau can just wave his hand and make it so.

  2. Stone strikes stone in a similar way, but a different area of a spear head. List me as suspicious that there’s anything similar about this. Is there only one way to make a fire? Is there only one way to make a wheel? Within the last 300 years there have been enough examples of parallel development to make it laughable to think that only one person, in the history of the world, can ever come up with a particular idea.

  3. Unrelated, serrated edges cut thick hides more efficiently where you have no access to 61 Roc hardness blades, no matter how many centuries separate them. 1. because of less bearing area on the cut, less drag 2. the serrations make the knife edge contact the medium at constantly varying angles which relieves ‘jamming’.
    The longitudinal groove is a ‘blood’ groove, facilitates the animal bleeding out more quickly.

    It’s no mystery that people needing cutting implements discovered this independently.
    Silly billy academic.

        1. Which has the longest guarantee ? Which is best for self-defendse ? Just asking for a friend in case the SCoC rules against Khill.

          1. Hopefully social media and blogs like this one will become vocal and support Khill and his right to defend his property and himself.Like the farmer in Saskatchewan or Alberta who defended those same rights when a bunch of Canadas chosen people decided to invade his property for some free gas. Or maybe just for the He!! of it. Its time that Canadas product of the social education/indoctrination system was held accountable for the result of their experimentation.

  4. “It must have been done for other reasons, and we tried to argue that it was more related to a form of ‘bravado’ or display of skill,” Crassard said.

    It seems the interpretation is based on a guess regarding what these unknown people may have been thinking at the time. That’s just silly; they should turn in their Phd’s for a refund.

    1. There is discussion on likelihood of new inventions in small tribal groups and of independent invention in

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_Engineers

      Also highlights that just the transmission of the idea of a new invention can stimulate remote re-creation of that idea.

      Re Ph.D’s – at one stage there were suggestions that they should be done in ink that faded to indicate the requirement for updating qualifications. Just imagine the result of older qualifications being updated by what passes now.

  5. “Genetic[54] and linguistic[58] data demonstrate that at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, as sea levels rose, some members of the Beringian Standstill Population migrated back into eastern Asia while others migrated into the Western Hemisphere,”

    We will never know, but they could be related. World was pretty empty then, and you can travel a long way by kayak in a thousand years.

  6. Printing press:
    China, 1040
    Gutenberg, 1440
    Meh……

    “Zog Jones cooks his meat.”

  7. There is also the example of the Solutreans in southwest France ca 17 kya or so. Their blades also look like the Clovis points.

    Why didn’t the researchers in Arabia mention Clovis by name, not just some vague reference to ancient North Americans? Do they know who Clovis were, or Solutreans?Are they just plain ignorant of their own trade?

    1. The Kennewick man had a Solutrean spear point lodged in his hip bone when they found him, But the 1st Immigrants claimed him and they destroyed the evidence.

  8. How soon until this enters the curriculum as evidence of the advanced culture of indigenous North Americans prior to contact with Europeans?

  9. “… it took us more time to understand why fluting was present in Arabia”

    Yeah, right… “understand”.
    IANAL but it smacks of Patent infringement.

  10. I’ve been amused for a long time by people who believe that our ancestors were so incredibly stupid that only one person in the entire world in 5000 years could figure out how to make pointy rocks more pointy in any particular way.

  11. In other (apparently) related news, dugout canoes that were made 8,000 years ago have been discovered in Brazil, Holland, Africa, and Indonesia.

    So, stay tuned for a new PBS docudrama that posits this is irrefutable evidence of regular intercontinental communications during the paleolithic.

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