Re: Marc was right

Homo butchering a whale.
:-)


Op 09-07-2007 15:54, in artikel
1183989283.270445.183940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:


http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/whale.html

"Fossils of a whale that beached on an African shore more than a
million years ago and was subsequently butchered by hominids have been
recovered near the town of Benguela, 250 miles south of Luanda,
Angola. This is the first time a dismembered whale has turned up at a
Palaeolithic site, elephants and hippopotamuses being far more typical
hominid prey. Manuel Guttierez of the Université de Paris-10 and
Angolan researchers from the Archaeological Museum of Benguela found
the whale's skull, the front half of its veterbral column, some ribs
and isolated vertebrae together with some 60 Olduvaian choppers and
flakes. The whale measured 18 feet long and was probably a baleen,
according to Claude Guérin of Lyon's Université Claude Bernard. The
site is still littered with the shells, sharks' teeth, and sea urchins
of the ancient shore, now two miles distant and 300 feet above the
sea. Excavations are ongoing at the site."

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