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Have you ever heard the phrase: You give someone a fish and they eat for a day, you teach them to fish and they will eat for the rest of their life?
Well, its probably not surprising that the fish hook was recently voted to be one of the top 20 tools of all time. The earliest known fish hooks are around 30,000 years old.
One of the oldest artificial objects ever found was a flute carved out of bone (shown above). Its been dated at 45,000 years old. That is extremely old when you think that civilisations are only really thought to have started in the last 10,000 years.
But here is the twist....
The interesting thing about both these artifacts is that they were not made by modern Humans at all, but by Cro-Magnon Man (the fish hooks) and Neanderthal Man (the flute).
Makes you think, doesn't it?
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Hello again Darren,
the concensus may be for the fish hook but my vote is for the "plow." Why? Without the plow there wouldn't be an extra commodity to sell; the plow gave rise to the merchant class then the governing class then to the leadership class over the governing class and finally to the taxation people. It, for the most part, took up where the fish hook left off!
Teufel
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