Big haul of 170yo Indigenous artefacts unearthed in North West Queensland 8-)

Between 112 & 232 yrs old. So not that old.

I'm surprised the claim wasn't 70,000 yrs old. ::)

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 1^st, 2025 at 9:24am:

Big haul of 170yo Indigenous artefacts unearthed in North West Queensland 8-)

So what’s the rejoicing about?
According to the article there’s plenty of photos of these things being used.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 1^st, 2025 at 9:24am:

Big haul of 170yo Indigenous artefacts unearthed in North West Queensland 8-)

It's a pile of rocks, FFS!  :D :D :D.

Fred! Barney! Yabba dabba doo!!

Will look good in a museum.... until someone decides to demand them back after dumping them.

A pile of rocks. Seriously if chimps used them, I'd be impressed.

Meanwhile other humans 170ish years ago.....

Here are the most advanced and world-changing inventions of the entire 19th century (1801–1900), ranked roughly by long-term technological and societal impact. These are the ones that literally created the modern world.
Rank      Year      Invention / Discovery      Inventor / Key Figure      Why it’s one of the most advanced of the century
1      1855–56      Bessemer process (mass-production of steel)      Henry Bessemer      Dropped steel price ~90 % → enabled railways, skyscrapers, ships, machines, cars. The single most important materials breakthrough of the century.
2      1876      Telephone      Alexander Graham Bell      First practical electrical voice communication over distance.
3      1879      Incandescent electric light bulb (carbon filament, practical)      Thomas Edison (also Swan, Latimer, etc.)      Made electric lighting viable → transformed night, cities, and work.
4      1837      Electric telegraph (practical commercial system)      Samuel Morse & others      Instant long-distance communication for the first time in history.
5      1885      Automobile (first true gasoline-powered car)      Karl Benz      Birth of the motor car → reshaped cities, suburbs, oil industry, warfare.
6      1866      Dynamite & modern high explosives      Alfred Nobel      Revolutionized mining, construction, and warfare.
7      1831      Electromagnetic induction → practical generators & motors      Michael Faraday      The scientific principle behind virtually all electricity generation and electric motors.
8      1877      Phonograph      Thomas Edison      First device to record and reproduce sound.
9      1895      X-rays      Wilhelm Röntgen      First look inside the living human body non-invasively.
10      1839/1840s      Photography (daguerreotype → collodion → dry plates)      Daguerre, Talbot, Archer      Permanent visual record of the world; foundation of modern imaging.
11      1860s–70s      Open-hearth (Siemens-Martin) steel process      Siemens & Martin      Scaled steel production even further; dominated 20th-century steelmaking.
12      1888      Alternating-current (AC) polyphase system      Nikola Tesla / Westinghouse      Made long-distance electricity transmission practical → the modern power grid.
13      1846      Sewing machine (lockstitch, practical)      Elias Howe / Isaac Singer      Triggered the ready-to-wear clothing revolution.
14      1894–95      Cinematograph / motion pictures      Lumière brothers & others      Birth of cinema.
15      1834      Mechanical reaper      Cyrus McCormick      Mechanized agriculture → fed exploding urban populations.
Honorable mentions that just missed the top tier

    Portland cement (1824, perfected 1850s) → m