Re: the kelp route

"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Early humans followed the coast
5 October 2006
Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/5398850.stm
Coastlines were rich in resources for early humans

The point Olsen below is missing is that we like te eat both aquatic &
terrestrial foods, that simply means we are adapted to the waterside.
Homo more than 1 Ma butchered whales (and note the chances of being
discovered there are many times less than when they butchered large
mammals drowned in inland waters).

They butchered whales that beached. They did not hunt whales. This
suggests
that they might have actually been able to wade. Since that ability is no
more or less than walking it suggests nothing about being aquatic in any
shape form or fashion.

:-D Now the dry apers are arguing that wading is terrestrial...

And there's far more terrestrial butcher sites.

What else, my boy?? See above: the chances of being discovered there are
many times less than when they butchered large mammals drowned in inland
waters. Coasts are difficult places for fossilisation, but where they
fossilise, Homo remains are often seen (Java, Eritrea, Gibraltar etc.etc.).
I only hope Travsky doesn't believe that butchering whales suggests they
were savanna dwellers... :-D

I'll try to make it simple: Homo butchered whales & antelopes. All these
sites were waterside. They did not hunt the whales, they did not hunt the
antelopes. Wildebeest often drown during trekking. Whales sometimes
strand. Why on earth wouldn't a handy tool-using waterside early Homo have
butchered drowned antelopes or whales??

A bit of information for our savanna believers:
AAT = Homo littoral diaspora.
Aquatic Ape Theory is an inaccurate term: it's not about apes, nor about
having been aquatic. AAT states that our ancestors sometime after the
Homo/Pan split relied partly on aquatic resources:
- Homo: AAT, contrary to what many PAs think, has nothing to do with
australopiths,
- littoral: it's about our ancestors having been shoreline dwellers
(coast/lake/river-side),
- diaspora: Homo remains 1.8 Ma are found in places as far as Ain Hanech
(Algeria), Dmanisi (Georgia), Mojokerto (Java) etc.: AAT simply says that
these people got there along shorelines, not over dry plains. Intelligent
PAs such as Ph.Tobias http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm &
Chr.Stringer http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003982.html now agree with a
"wet" past & shoreline dispersals http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT



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