WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzees may have had their own "Stone Age," with evidence showing they were using stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago, researchers reported on Monday.
They said their findings suggest that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans started using tools more than 7 million years ago, when the two species started to evolve separately.
"It's not clear whether we hominins invented this kind of stone technology, or whether both humans and the great apes inherited it from a common forebear," said archeologist Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary in Alberta, who led the study. [...]
So, chimps had their Stone Age some 4,300 years ago, and some humans are still living in one:
They said their findings suggest that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans started using tools more than 7 million years ago, when the two species started to evolve separately.
"It's not clear whether we hominins invented this kind of stone technology, or whether both humans and the great apes inherited it from a common forebear," said archeologist Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary in Alberta, who led the study. [...]
So, chimps had their Stone Age some 4,300 years ago, and some humans are still living in one:
Crossposted at Eye On The World.
7 comments:
i cant tell the difference between the 2 !!
no really i cant !
Some of them have moved to the Kalashnikov age, I have been told.
Regards,
Snouck
I did.
Ewout Jansen on the run
Regards,
Snouck
Hey Snouck,
I think the guy means put it up here. You know this blog has a lot of readers. Take advantage of that fact and get the word out, no matter what you think of me.
:)
You and I may have our differences, but I invited you to post here because I think you are brilliant.
By publicize, I mean really publicize, like American-style publicize. Go big. Blitze all the big blogs: Jihad Watch, Religion of Peace, Little Green Football, etc.
Snouck,
Yeah, do what Monkey Business says too.
We have about 1,200 readers a day. ROP, Jihad Watch, and LGF had about ( a combined) 150,000 readers a day.
Get your info out there.
Kaffur,
The difference between the two pictures is that those depicted in the first one don't look angry.
Snouck,
The use of Kalashnikovs does not mean they are out of the Stone Age.
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