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These Early Humans Walked 8 Miles for the Perfect Rock (nautil.us)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by obbeel@mander.xyz to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] Adcott@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] obbeel@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

To find the perfect tool. Sounds reasonable.

[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I mean in modern times mining companies have instigated wars for 'rocks'

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago

The notable part is that it indicates sophisticated tool making behavior 600,000 years before we previously thought it occurred.