Comment on Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside AfricaparentComments−garmaine8yWhat would that show?−rossdavidh8yPerhaps, what the actual value could be expected to be. So, for example, you don't do a lot of work on top of the current estimates for oldest tool-using humans outside of Africa, that is likely to be overturned in ten or twenty years.−garmaine8yIt wouldn't be convergent.−rossdavidh8yInteresting if true. I could easily believe what you say, but do we know that? I don't know the field well enough to say.−garmaine8yYes it is rather trivially true. The age is getting exponentially further while discoveries are happening faster.But that reflects improvements in technology, not anything about what’s being measured.
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What would that show?
Perhaps, what the actual value could be expected to be. So, for example, you don't do a lot of work on top of the current estimates for oldest tool-using humans outside of Africa, that is likely to be overturned in ten or twenty years.
It wouldn't be convergent.
Interesting if true. I could easily believe what you say, but do we know that? I don't know the field well enough to say.
Yes it is rather trivially true. The age is getting exponentially further while discoveries are happening faster.
But that reflects improvements in technology, not anything about what’s being measured.