Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O...
by rossdavidh on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:06PM
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Perhaps, what the actual value could be expected to be. So, for example, you don't do a lot of work on top of the current estimates for oldest tool-using humans outside of Africa, that is likely to be overturned in ten or twenty years.
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Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O...
by garmaine on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:31PM
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It wouldn't be convergent.
Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O...
by rossdavidh on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:12PM
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Interesting if true. I could easily believe what you say, but do we know that? I don't know the field well enough to say.
Re:Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools O...
by garmaine on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:10PM
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Yes it is rather trivially true. The age is getting exponentially further while discoveries are happening faster.
But that reflects improvements in technology, not anything about what’s being measured.