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Re: Stone Tools go back 3.4 million years
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Heather Duffin <[log in to unmask]>
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Please remove me from this mailing. No time to keep up now!
Heather
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-----Original Message-----
From: william <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:18:18 
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Subject: Re: Stone Tools go back 3.4 million years

It reads like they are assuming scavenging - from the last line "They 
had perhaps arrived for dinner with their utensils in hand.", but sticks 
are self-aware predators' tools.

William




Don Wiss wrote:
> Lucy's Kin Carved Up a Meaty Meal, Scientists Say
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/science/12tools.html?pagewanted=all
> 
> Now one can assume that sharpened sticks would predate stone. So 
> meat/fish eating could go back 4 million years.
> 
>

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