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Sink your hooks into this:
Archaeologists have found the world's oldest fish hooks in a cave on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The pair, dating from about 23,000 years ago, were carved from sea snail shells and found with other ancient relics, according to a paper.
It is thought humans inhabited the island from at least 30,000 years ago, surviving despite scarce resources. The findings suggest a wider use of advanced maritime technology in that era than previously thought.
Modern humans first moved to offshore islands some 50,000 years ago. While fishing has been essential for early humans to spread around the planet, it is unclear how the technology evolved, with evidence limited to sites in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. "The new evidence demonstrates a geographically wider distribution of early maritime technology that extended north to the mid-latitude areas along the western Pacific coast," according to the National Academy of Sciences. The fish hooks pre-date ones found in Timor, thought to be at least 16,000 years old, and Papua New Guinea, from at least 18,000 years ago.
Advanced maritime adaptation in the western Pacific coastal region extends back to 35,000–30,000 years before present (open, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607857113) (DX)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @03:20PM
...What They Were Used for May Surprise You
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday September 19 2016, @10:31PM
Sushi.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday September 23 2016, @06:25AM
Clickbait?
(Score: 2) by cellocgw on Monday September 19 2016, @10:03PM
"Teach a man to fish, and." --> everyone will forget how to do it in a few generations.
(Yeah, I know the paper doesn't imply they ever stopped using fishhooks in Okinawa. But why ruin a perfectly good snark?)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:03AM
Mankind's first spam campaign began the very next day, with people walking around the island shouting "Catch more fish than you'll be able to eat, two for the price of one, HEEEEAAHHH"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:53AM
Those look like earrings I've seen some chicks wearing.
I'm betting that female vanity goes back at least that far.
...and there's no particular reason to even limit it to "female".
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