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

From: Lee Olsen (paleocity_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: 17 Nov 2004 08:26:47 -0800

Dar_83001@yahoo.com (Daryl Habel) wrote in message news:<d24f0b9f.0411161742.832035e@posting.google.com>...
> 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

In that case-----
Of course not, no matter which way the biology turns out at Liang Bua.
I'm trying to get across, that because of earlier demonstrated
proficiency in tool making, 380 cc's is enough to have made those
tools. Yes, maybe it will turn out that a 1350 cc's person made them,
but that wouldn't have prevented a small brained H. erectus (or
whatever) from having the capacity to do it either. Paul Mellars
pointed out in one of his early books that just because someone didn't
do something doesn't mean they couldn't.

This still remains my big beef:
Professor Colin Groves
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1230899.htm
"The newly discovered Hobbit-like humans were not intelligent enough
to have made the tools found with them, says an expert in human
evolution. And they behaved more like chimpanzees."

I suggest Colin Groves is the one behaving more like a chimpanzee.

> Dar
>
> > hominins lacked equivalent skills.