lacaio da inquisição@mander.xyz to Science@mander.xyz · edit-26 days agoThese Early Humans Walked 8 Miles for the Perfect Rocknautil.usexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up141file-text
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minus-squareAdcott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoIs walking 8 miles particularly notable? Is it a typo and they mean 18 miles or something? For someone reasonably fit 8 miles is maybe a 2 hour walk. You’d leave in the morning and be back for lunchtime. I regularly walk that far before breakfast.
minus-squarelacaio da inquisição@mander.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoThey didn’t walk 8 miles to do a Marathon, they didn’t walk 8 miles for any type of food. They walked 8 miles to find a perfect rock.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoTo find the perfect tool. Sounds reasonable.
minus-squareitsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoI mean in modern times mining companies have instigated wars for ‘rocks’
minus-squareMeowZedong@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThe notable part is that it indicates sophisticated tool making behavior 600,000 years before we previously thought it occurred.
Is walking 8 miles particularly notable? Is it a typo and they mean 18 miles or something? For someone reasonably fit 8 miles is maybe a 2 hour walk. You’d leave in the morning and be back for lunchtime.
I regularly walk that far before breakfast.
They didn’t walk 8 miles to do a Marathon, they didn’t walk 8 miles for any type of food. They walked 8 miles to find a perfect rock.
To find the perfect tool. Sounds reasonable.
I mean in modern times mining companies have instigated wars for ‘rocks’
The notable part is that it indicates sophisticated tool making behavior 600,000 years before we previously thought it occurred.