#archaelogy

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

UK farmer went for a walk, stumbled on remains of rare Roman mosaic and villa | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/uk-farmer-went-for-a-walk-stumbled-on-remains-of-rare-roman-mosaic-and-villa/

What have the Romans ever done for us?
Well,...

Wow, really cool find!
@Cass M As we were talking about metal detection and stuff like this

#archaelogy

dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

"Unfortunately, stone toolmaking is not a common skill in the modern world...

"and hence recruitment of expert subjects presents a unique challenge."

From Dietrich Stout, Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick and Thierry Chaminade, "Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2008 363, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0001, published 12 June 2008

Just goes to show it's hard to find good stone age technologists even with 2.6 million years to develop those skills.

#recruiting #toolmaking #StoneAgeProblems #anthropology #archaelogy