Old Tools

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:37:58 -0800 (PST)


My Thursday LA Times says the that Feb 27 Nature reports someone found
"perfectly preserved 400,000 year old wooden spears"! If true, this
suggests there is a bigger gap than we thought beteen creatures able
to make advanced tools and us, highlighting the mystery: Just what
*did* happen to humans in the last 50,000 years?

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/