Re: opening oysters with stone tools?

From: Marc Verhaegen (fa204466_at_skynet.be)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:09:27 +0100

Sigh.
"Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> doesn't even know that English
is not my mother tongue in message news:42223B9D.21F0C3EF@hotmMOVEail.com...
> Marc Verhaegen wrote:
>>
>> "dave" <dave@daveunderhill.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:cvj5ht$c1$1@titan.btinternet.com...
>> > are you asking the right question?
>> >
>> > it is surely not a question of whether they could, as whether they
>> > would?
>> > what your dealing with is an ad hoc stratergies for obtaining
>> > sustenance,
>> > if
>> > hammering works why change it?
>> >
>> > to answer the question technically, the question becomes with what? i
>> > wouldn't fancy doing it with a flake, not enough leverage. the rest of
>> > their
>> > assembledge seems unlikly to me to have been employed in any action
>> > past
>> > hammering or scraping, nothing seems to have the necesary slimness of
>> > edge.
>> > If however you posit a perishable tool form, then the question comes
>> > back
>> > to
>> > why bother if hammering will do it?
>>
>> I don't know. I guess hammering requires more time & more chances to get
>> the
>> oyster lost (jumping away, crushing the edible parts...) than opening it
>
> OYSTERS JUMP AWAY????
>
>> with some sort of oyster knife. A piece of an antler could perhaps have
>> done
>> it, but would this have been available to H.erectus at Mojokerto? Thanks
>> for
>> answering. Next time I eat oysters, I can try to open one with the shell
>> of
>> another.