Tools For "Giants" Found in England Archeological Site

"36J.955" <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:04:17 -0400
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/giant-hand-axes-ice-age-archaeology

Archaeologists recently unearthed giant prehistoric hand
axes in England. Scientists are bewildered at the sheer
size of the 300,000-year-old tools and are not positive
how humans from the Ice Age used the giant hand axes.

The giant hand axes were crafted from flint stone and measure
more than a foot long from tip to butt, plus have very thick
bases. Scientists are baffled as to how prehistoric humans
were able to use the large stone tools.

"We think the artifacts date from an interglacial (warm
period) between about 330,000 and 300,000 years ago. We
have no human fossil evidence from the site, so no direct
evidence of who was making it. However, we do know that
Britain was populated at this time by early Neanderthal
people, but there also could have been other archaic
human species around."

. . .

   Well ... there WERE supposed to be "giants" ....

   These artifacts don't fit even large modern humans.

   Now "giant" doesn't necessarily mean four or five
   meters tall. I'm not sure the human form could even
   work at that scale, circulatory problems would
   probably be lethal.

   However we see humans, athletes, pushing the 8-foot
   level these days. What size WOULD fit these artifacts ?
   12-footers ? Something human-smart but not human ???

   Gigantopithecus was BARELY that big - and has never
   been found outside of east asia , though they DO kinda
   fit the 300,000 year timeframe. Their teeth also
   suggest they ate little but plants, reducing the need
   for hand-axes. Their IQ is totally unknown, there have
   been no confirmed "cultural artifacts" associated
   with them.

   We can argue about myths and legends all we want,
   but THESE are tangible evidence. Even these sorts
   of hand-tools require time and effort to make ...
   I highly doubt some Neanderthal made them as some
   kind of joke. They were meant for real work by
   real 'people'. Close examination of the tool edges
   should prove very interesting.

   The oldest examples of anything we'd mostly call
   "human" were found in eastern Morocco - age about
   300,000 years. However they were fairly SMALL.
   These tools weren't for THEM either.