That one on the left looks super useful.
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The sad thing is that I wouldn't consider myself anywhere near to an expert in archaeology or geology. I couldn't tell you the difference between slate and shale and I couldn't tell you the difference between a neanderthal spear point and a homo sapiens spear point... but I would never look at any of those rocks and think, "these were clearly worked by the hands of a human" let alone "these were clearly worked by the hands of a species of human that we have no evidence ever lived in North America."
Like I said in the body of the post, what the hell would you even use the one on the left for? It looks like the second you'd put any pressure on it, it would shatter.
The only difference between you and the "scientist" who "discovered" these important "Neanderthal" "tools" is confidence. You should work on that. ;-)
I am fairly confident that this "scientist" is a loony. Does that count?
To be fair to the original "scientist" you can definitely go to museums and find rocks that are supposed to be tools with pretty much 0 indication visible to the lay person.
Look at some of the images at the top of the link.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-have-been-crafting-stone-tools-26-million-years-180972346/
But that's exactly why I wouldn't assume that any rock was worked by human hands. Especially when there is a far greater chance that any given rock will not have been worked by them and is just a rock.
I will stand by my point that the one on the left looks like it would be unusable as a tool though.
That's actually pretty hard... slate is a lightly metamorphosed shale. Without looking too much into it, I'd say the most obvious thing would be the prominence of the foliation in the slate would be fading away
If movies and right-wing propaganda have taught me one thing: forget about knowledge, facts and expertise, if you really want something to be true, and it benefits Donald Trump, then it IS now true!
I would not be at all surprised if you asked Trump if neanderthals lived in North America, rather than say he didn't know like he should, he'd come up with some long-winded bullshit about it as if he knew what he was talking about. And get everything wrong.
And then the entire billionaire-controlled propaganda industry behind him would jump in and start inventing reasons why AKTSCHUALLY, what he said was right all along, not what all those high-falutin' elitist leftist "experts" were spending their lives researching.