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Ancient Knives Unsurprisingly Found in Knifeland
England: packed with knives for 800,000 years. (Or, I guess, that's 800,000 minus 74,000 years if you believe in the Bible.) This pushes back the estimated time that humans settled Northern Europe by 100,000 years. "The researchers believe the humans adapted their way of life to cope with tougher living conditions, with few edible plants and animals, and extremely cold winters. 'My personal hunch is that they had some sort of clothing,' said [British Museum archaeologist Nick] Ashton." Just like they do now!
The name of that first knifewielding briton? Asbo.
How soon will the people at Pew Research Center do a survey to test for what percent of Brits now agree that they live on Knifeland, and what part of that view is directly due to The Awl's reporting (and re-branding efforts)? I attended school there (in London) and now can't think of it (Knifeland, Knifecrime Island) as anything else!
Ooo, "packed with knives." This is a good day for Knifecrime and WHERE IS THAT TAG.
Trackies tucked in socks.