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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by cubefox on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:29AM (#36737698)
But surely it is much more unlikely that animal bones would last for a hundred millennia.
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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:11PM (#36738925)
> surely it is much more unlikely that animal bones would last for a hundred millennia

Why? The Cambridge paper gives a scientist’s reasons for that not being the case being supposition.

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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by cubefox on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:50PM (#36742360)
Because processed stones are much more massive than bones, which mostly rot away quite quickly.
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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by rini17 on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:58AM (#36744323)
Mass does not matter. Tungsten metal is heftier that the stone and it rots regardless.
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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by cubefox on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:38AM (#36746862)
Let's say durable then.
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