11 May 16
Originally posted by sonhouseThis is true only because the duty free shops are forbidden to sell weapons.
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-world-oldest-axe-fragment-australia.html
Worlds oldest! They didn't have them when they came, suitcase in hand, but developed the first ax's in Australia not long after the first ones got there.
11 May 16
Originally posted by AThousandYoungOf course they were invented ELSEWHERE. The gist of this story is they found them in Australia and the natives who basically island hopped to get here, the islands they came from have never produced a single ax artifact (which isn't to say there never was one there, just have not yet been discovered if any) so the argument is the early Australians invented axes independently, isolated as they were on that giant island of Australia. There were no humans on Australia EVER until about 50,000 years ago.
Simple hand axes were invented over a million and a half years ago. Something isn't right with this story.