Thursday, March 01, 2012

Ancient Virginia Flint Knife came from France

[Not rock pile related, this is about an artifact found in a context dated to more than 19,000 years ago.]
"What’s more, chemical analysis carried out last year on a European-style stone knife found in Virginia back in 1971 revealed that it was made of French-originating flint. "
[Click here for the article from the Independent newspaper in the UK]
[Click here for the a Washington Post update]

More articles here.

4 comments :

pwax said...

I've been aggregated!

theseventhgeneration said...

That article has over 600 comments. Quite a lively debate! I'm afraid I don't know what aggregated means.

pwax said...

Two extremely large website/forums decided to borrow my headline and send users to this article. So "Rock Piles" is being aggregated with other content by other websites, skirting the edges of "fair use" copyright laws. On balance, it is probably better to have more people visit a sub-page than not visit at all.

pwax said...

Parenthetically, French flint might have been used as ballast on a ship that dumped it, here in the New World.