{"id":33550,"date":"2012-11-16T02:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=33550"},"modified":"2012-11-16T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:57:12","slug":"oldest-known-spear-points-found-date-back-500000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/oldest-known-spear-points-found-date-back-500000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest-Known Spear Points Found, Date Back 500,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

New evidence has been found that humans used stone-tipped weapons at least as far back as 500,000 years ago.
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There has been a lot of debate amongst researchers about when certain technologies were first used by humans. To a large degree this is due to the sparseness of archaeological records from that far back, and also to the quick decomposition of many of the technologies and their components. And this debate is further complicated by the changes to the climate have occurred over the past million or so years, and the associated sea level rise; as humans tend to live near coasts or rivers, and any associated artifacts would be underwater now.<\/p>\n

Many researchers argue that the human ancestors that lived 100,000-1,000,000 or so years ago (throughout Europe and Asia) didn’t have the cognitive ability to create many of the technologies that are recorded as being used strictly by ‘modern’ humans. Though the arguments used to support this are generally not very strong, simply a lack of evidence that they did, and assumptions of modern superiority. It also ignores that fact that people could very well have the ability to create a technology but never have the need for it, and thus never create it. It seems to be far more likely that technology arises either from necessity or competition with other technology.<\/p>\n