Re: Lokalalei vs Flores (Re: Importance of Flores Overstated?)

From: Daryl Habel (Dar_83001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: 16 Nov 2004 17:42:49 -0800

Dar_83001@yahoo.com (Daryl Habel) wrote in message news:<d24f0b9f.0411152322.3ddb6e42@posting.google.com>...
> > <snip>
> [more snip]
A correction below..........
> > > Probably because all they were
> > > trying to produce was a sharp edge on a flake.
> >
> > An orang can do that. What Lokalalei 2C creatures were after was
> > getting every last flake they possibly could from a single core, and
> > that is pretty human-like thinking, and far more difficult to learn
> > than making a small flake from a flores type core.
>
> I agree. But certainly by making this point, I hope you are not
> implying that the Lokalalei 2C

Whoa!! This makes no sense. Substitute Lia Buang for Lokalalei 2C.
What I really meant to post. My apology for confusion
Dar

> hominins lacked equivalent skills.