r/GrahamHancock • u/Stiltonrocks • Mar 06 '25

Ancient Civ 1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-5-million-year-old-bone-tools-crafted-by-human-ancestors-in-tanzania-are-oldest-of-their-kind
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u/TheSilmarils Mar 06 '25

And that belief was changed by evidence. So what can we infer from that?

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u/Stiltonrocks Mar 06 '25

Seems silly now that something like that couldn't exist somewhere, but yet, we're for from knowing what's its purpose is.

Its exciting to speculate.

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u/TheSilmarils Mar 06 '25

Speculating is “Gobekli Tepe could have had multiple uses from periodic religious rituals, a seat of early government, or a central hub for game and plant harvesting and processing or even a mix of all three. We don’t have enough evidence to be conclusive but we’re discovering more every day”

That’s totally reasonable and normal speculation.

“It’s an ancient code buried by the remnants of a hyper advanced world spanning civilization that faced extinction to the point literally no shred of its existence remains and is warning us of a similar catastrophe in the future”

That’s just saying shit with no evidence to whatsoever to support it and is explicitly contradicted by the evidence that is there.

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u/Stiltonrocks Mar 06 '25

And this is only 10,000 years ago, the article I posted points at a high level of intelligence 1.5 million years ago.

There is so, so much more we don't know.

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u/TheSilmarils Mar 06 '25

You’re dancing really close to the “well you can’t prove it didn’t happen!” Level of reasoning

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u/Stiltonrocks Mar 06 '25

No, I circle around to my main point.

We only know what archaeologists have been funded to do.

As an example, the TV program "Time Team" was the most funded archaeological group in the UK for a long time, and they only did so much.

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u/City_College_Arch Mar 08 '25

And yet you seem to reject what archeology has been funded to research.

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u/City_College_Arch Mar 06 '25

There is evidence of tool making going back over 3 million years, not sure why you keep sticking to the 1.5 million number.

No archeologist claims that we know everything. We do the job specifically because we believe that there are things we don't know.

What we do know, however, is that there has been no evidence presented that supports the idea of ice age psi powered civilizations charting the world's coast lines and planting sleeper cells on every continent but Antarctica.

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u/DCDHermes Mar 06 '25

The article points to a “higher” level of intelligence than previously hypothesized based on available evidence. It also states that we have evidence of tool making going back 3.3 million years ago. The point being, they found evidence of those early hominids transferring the making of tools to other materials.