Re: Homo & molluscs


"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> > "Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1126744265.881540.97730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > > Nariokotome "Turkana Boy" KNM-WT 15000 (not ER-1808 of course, as
some
> > > > ill-informed people think) H. erectus/ergaster: 'Mammalian fossils
are
> > rare
> > > > at this locality, the most abundant vertebrate fossils being parts
of
> > small
> > > > and large fish. The depositional environment was evidently an
alluvial
> > plain
> > > > of low relief [.] Typical lacustrine forms (for example, ostracods,
> > > > molluscs) could invade the area [.] The only other fauna found so
far in
> > the
> > > > fossiliferous bed are many opercula of the swamp snail Pila, a few
bones
> > of
> > > > the catfish Synodontis and two fragments of indeterminate large
mammal
> > bone
> > > > [.]' (Brown et al., 1985).
> > >
> > >
> > > Out-of-date just like all the rest of your publications.
> > > Let's try Walker and Leakey ed. 1993 The Nariokotome Homo Erectus
> > > Skeleton. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.
> >
> > Yes: amid hippo footprints & reeds... Curious savanna...
>
>
> Yes, shallow water, just what he said. Certainly kills your falsehood:
> "always by lakes and seas" Can't you ever get anything right?

No reeds at lakesides IYO????


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