I’m very strong on valuing places and evidence of early culture and societies- not only modern humans both in history and prehistory, but earlier hominids as well.
in Europe, there are artefacts of hominids everywhere. You can almost say that there’s a long history in almost everywhere you stand and you can easily find stone tools and god knows what lies underneath any building etc
so to treat every place you are likely to find something from ancient times as so special that you withhold farting is frankly ridiculous.
whilst there are clearly many sites of significance in both Oz and Europe, to treat the finding of a few knife edges or an axe or a couple of points as something super special when humans have been running all over the place for 50,000 years or more is pretty over the top.
In Europe , if everything stopped for a few axes - nothing would ever happen
“ I found them – a stone axe head and other pieces [were] in lines in a few trees, and 100 metres from that, a few spearheads," Mr O'Keefe said.
"It was so emotional. It took them that long to make a stone head axe from hand – it was a nice piece you hold with either your left or right hand."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...tm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
