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Title: Front garden yields ancient tools
Post by: Orstio on June 21, 2006, 05:52:04 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5098748.stm

The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for, new archaeological evidence suggests.

It comes in the form of giant flint handaxes that have been unearthed at a site at Cuxton in Kent.

The tools display exquisite, almost flamboyant, workmanship not associated with this period until now.

The axes - one of which measured 307mm (1ft) in length - were dug up from old sand deposits in a front garden.



Title: Re: Front garden yields ancient tools
Post by: Rxke on June 22, 2006, 07:23:07 AM
That axxe really looks masterful. Just imagine how much work and skill this is proof of...



Title: Re: Front garden yields ancient tools
Post by: Charity on June 27, 2006, 09:49:18 PM
Those are fantastic, I might even say beautiful!