
Vol 1 Ep 5 - Lower paleolithic stone tools ( Olduvai Gorge )
History of the World podcast
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Ashulian Handaxes - Self Consciousness
Ashulian hand axes have found at the jogodian site in china, this is where we discovered peking man during our homo rectus pocost. They also have been found at the stek fontaine caves of south africa,. So this tool culture was extremely widespread as it spilled out of africa and to the far reaches of europe and asia. The man with the most impressive hand axe could be the most desirable man to a woman. A woman will naturally want the healthiest and most capable offspring. This might sound like quite a far out assumption to make, but it actually explains the hords of seemingly unused and impractically oversized hand axes which
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