If us Ice Age Homo sapiens use the same spears and clubs (iSpear and iClub?), then together we can send those Neanderthals the way of the dinosaur. "For early Homo sapiens colonising Ice Age Europe, a new shared and flashy-looking technology might serve as one form of social glue by which larger social networks were bonded," said Metin Eren, an experimental archaeologist from the University of Exeter in England. ... Read full entry
New, not better, technologies are the ties that bind
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 to the comment subset
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