| ▲ | mmooss 6 hours ago | |
> I've worked in museums and research settings You've worked in those settings, and you think archaeologists reject tool use older than 1 mya? Also, you don't understand that science is a process, based on evidence, and revision is an essential part of that process? Archaeology especially advances regularly, because evidence can be relatively very rare. If they weren't revising it, it would mean the whole research enterprise - to expand knowledge - was failing. > how many times has the earliest dates of hominids and tool use and human thresholds of development been pushed back by tens of thousands of years? I don't know, how many times? Tool use is universally believed, in the field, to have begun at least 2.58 million years ago, and with strong evidence for 3.3 mya. Tens of thousands of years isn't in the debate. See this subthread: | ||