Interesting. I'm a bit confused that the date cited in the title of the article doesn't really jibe with the date(s) in the article, but headlines are more often than not somewhat whacky.
Not sure why they'd be puzzled to find this there - their claimed dates are long after the end of the Valdai Glaciation period - that area would have been fairly well thawed by then, and it's in line with ancient trade routes between what are now St. Petersburg and Moscow - and Novgorod was originally the center of what became the Russian society - it's not at all like they "were way out in the weeds".
Not surprised at all by the dating. There's a guy digging a hole somewhere in Texas who's pulling Clovis points out which pre-date those in this article by millennia. (PBS NOVA episode: Clovis) Locally, the earliest evidence of human activity using similar stone tools dates back about
13,800 years BP.
When garages and workshops are unearthed by our followers tens of thousands of years from now, they too will be facing the same difficulties trying to find those 10mm sockets.
They will have to design and build new dump trucks to dispose of all of the 9/32", 11/32", and 11/16" sockets which will be ubiquitous and found in vast quantities, along with 9mm sockets and wrenches, and 1/2" drive speeder handles.
