Sawing timbers during the Stone Age

by SamCogar Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:56 am

Stone Age Village Unearthed in Central Greece

ATHENS, Greece — Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece.

The finds include remains of houses built of wood and unbaked clay bricks, together with pottery vases, ovens and stone tools, the Culture Ministry announced Thursday.

The Neolithic-era remains were discovered during work to lay a gas pipe near the village of Vassili in Thessaly, some 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Athens.

Thessaly's fertile plains attracted some of Greece's first farmers, and the ruins of several large, thriving settlements have been excavated in the area over the past 150 years.

The ministry announcement said the settlement was destroyed by fire, which baked and hardened the clay parts of the houses and preserved imprints of their wooden sections — which included sawed planks.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455426,00.html

Surely now, there saws were not made out of stone, were they.

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