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There's a barely conceivable disconnect between learning how to chip away at a suitable pebble, (a flint), to make a variety of of useful tools, to 'burning' another pebble/bunch of rocks to liberate the metal within, and then when you get annoyed at how soft Copper is, to find another metal, (Tin), to make Bronze.
The Stone Age persisted for roughly 3.4 million years, but it took barely a couple of thousand years to 'find' Iron.
Flints were sufficiently available that an alternative was not considered for most of human history.

Given how readily human groups seem to wipe each other off the face of the earth, there’s a very good chance the inhabitants were not Turkish.

The Stone Age persisted for roughly 3.4 million years, but it took barely a couple of thousand years to 'find' Iron.

Good point, but as a counterpoint: metallurgy ‘developed’ on seemingly isolated parts of the globe (at around the same time). It’s an entirely plausible coincidence, but a hefty one, that Native American tribes created the first copper tools ever at around the same time that Middle Eastern tribes did, and no one had ever done something similar before.

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths#:~:text=The%20dates%20show%20that%20early,and%20fashion%20it%20into%20tools.’

This reminds me that I need to read Riddley Walker again.

Göbelki Tepi

Meh. Sounds foreign.

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Modern views are that they were primitive and only had the most basic creations we can imagine

Um, whose modern views? Those don't sound like those current among archaeologists and other academics/scientists. Sounds more like the rather odd views you describe were your preconceptions that you've projected onto others having learned a bit better.

modern archeological convention

Really isn't the way you describe it.

The history of metallurgy is very, very far from written. As ever, we know/have interpreted what we've found, but we've barely scratched the surface.

we've barely scratched the surface

Harsh. 2.5 miles isn't much compared to the Earth's diameter but I wouldn't want to be the one digging down there.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/activists-spray-planes-with-paint-at-uk-airfield-where-taylor-swift-jet-landed

That’s more like it!
Argh fucking links. You get the idea

Archibald out of Olympics after freak garden accident

Britain's Katie Archibald - a cycling gold medallist at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics - will miss next month's Games in Paris after breaking her leg in a freak accident.
Archibald, 30, broke two bones in her leg and tore ligaments off the bone after tripping over a step in her garden.

Terrible luck. Such a shame.

Probably leaned though.

What next? Polyamorous shrubs?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/20/animal-homosexual-behaviour-under-reported-by-scientists-survey-shows

Animal kingdom's gone woke!

Although, probably best to not make baby stealing swans the poster boys of same sex relationships in the animal Kingdom.

In black swans, male-male couples frequently court each other, steal eggs, raise chicks together and are more successful in ensuring these chicks’ survival than heterosexual swan pair

44.5 in Crete:

... and yet the HR department isn't held culpable?

HR are always slippery as fuck, the untouchables.

Weather systems meet to the west:

Pizza and chips?

The internet's gone mad over that lad missing in Tenerife.

Most of the chat at work is mainly about his last court appearance.