Stone/metal(was: Jurassic intelligence (time-scale for evolution of alien

[dragonsl@scn.org (Ralph Lindberg & Ellen Winnie)]

At 2:57 PM 5/10/95, Stan Friesen wrote:
>"a culture not making regular use of metallic tools".
>
>The pre-European contact cultures of the Pacific did NOT use metal
>tools, so they were stone-age by definition - as were almost all of
>the indiginous North American cultures - even such sophisticated
>and advanced cultures as the Maya.
>
  Actually the only continental people who never discovered metal where the
Australian aboridginal tribes. Even some North American Indians worked
native copper and silver.
  I'm goin a iittle fair afield here, so I'll drop it now.

Ralph

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