Re: Tobias Rejects AAT Re: afarensis = fossil Homo species?

PAs don't know what to think of Olorgesailie & you try to use it as an
argument... Is it all you've got?? Poor boy...

Why do you believe that a waterside tool-using omnivore would not have used
stone tools (which they used to open seafoods) to butcher herbivores
trampled & drowned while crossing rivers at the trek?

FYI:
AAT = Homo waterside diaspora.
"Aquatic Ape Theory" is 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,
- waterside: AAT is about our ancestors having been shoreline dwellers
(sea/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 as some fools
still believe. Leading 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
Okidoki?

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Op 29-05-2007 01:09, in artikel
1180393777.894911.17230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On May 28, 9:27 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Op 28-05-2007 18:01, in artikel
1180368082.763054.182...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On May 28, 2:49 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

See above. And I forgot: "Our ability to concentrate our urine is poor
and
too low and if ever our earliest ancestors were savannah dwellers, we must
have been the worst, the most profligate urinators there." (Tobias)

Dear Mr. Tobias,
If our early ancestors were such poor pissers, just exactly how did
all the early tools get out on the deserts and savannahs? Did the
lions drag 'em in? Sincerely, Lee

The deserts??

Ever hear of a desert tortoise??

Ever hear of Dowsett et al. 1994?

Ever hear of the Sahara?


May it ever have crossed your mind that some hominid populations might have
lived in savannas & elsewhere along rivers, lakes, swamps...?

Ever hear of the Hippo Banda Site? Just because Homo e chops up a
hippo in a small pond doesn't mean Homo e was living in the pond with
the hippo.

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/aop/olorg2004/dispatch/06aug04/06aug
04.htm
"You may recall that one reason we think that early human fossils are
so rare at Olorgesailie is that the hominins were living in the
highlands. Almost certainly they weren't living (and dying) down by
the water's edge at night, when predators are very active. As you may
also recall, we think that the dense handaxe concentrations may have
been left by the hominins at watering holes before they walked back up
into the highlands, following a trip to the lowlands to obtain meat
and plant foods. Finally, remember (part of clue #2) that the shallow
stream channels were probably dry at times, and we think they may have
contained a few ponds as the water dried up."

Definition: "highlands" equal drylands.

Anything else you need to know?





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