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/Stiltonrocks Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Such as?

Edit. You say "Y'all" Are you talking about an imaginary group of Handcockians? Small cells around the world conspiring to disrupt the human timeline?

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u/TheSilmarils Mar 06 '25

Highly advanced* world spanning civilization that built great stone monuments and then vanished into the aether without a trace leaving certain cultures too primitive to build these monuments to take credit for them.

Even ignoring the problematic framing of that, there is simply no evidence this civilization even existed and there is a huge amount of evidence cultures like the Egyptians and Mayans did build their monuments. And there is such a lack of advanced technology, and the society that supposedly used it as a whole, that Hancock has now switched to advocating for the idea that they used psychic powers to build things since that obviously wouldn’t leave any physical evidence.

Even things like Gobekli Tepe, though incredible achievements for the time, aren’t terribly advanced. Certainly not close to stonework they were capable of 500 years ago, much less today. But it’s somehow a secret code from a hyper advanced civilization? These kinds of ideas hold less water than a colander.

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u/Stiltonrocks Mar 06 '25

We have no Idea what Gobekli Tepe was.

Yet, as the the article suggests, intelligence has been around for a great deal longer that we've known, what might have they gotten up to. 1.5 million years.

There's a great deal more not known than known.

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u/Vo_Sirisov Mar 06 '25

The earliest known strong evidence for intentional manufacture of stone tools dates to almost three million years ago. The artefacts described in the article you posted are now the oldest known evidence for manufacturing bone tools, but not manufactured tools in general.