Re: New Hominid Fossil Finds In Ethiopia, 3.5-3.8 mya

Op 12-07-2007 12:27, in artikel Aonli.20826$j7.378484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul
Crowley <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:
"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4695C356.B76C3346@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Dr Haile-Selassie said the new dig sites yielded the bones of many
monkeys, antelopes and wild pigs, suggesting that the hominids lived
in a far greener and more wooded countryside than the bare stony Afar
desert region seen today.

What, no oyster shells?

Why??

(This man is confusing apiths & Homo??)

The interesting feature about all these
sites is their closeness to the (fossil)
Sea of Afar.
Bear in mind also that the whole region
has been rising (as the result of geo-
tectonic forces) over the past few
million years. The sites would have
been much closer to sea-level when
they were occupied by hominids. Paul

Yes, not unlikely. Homo seems to appear in the Rift with high sea levels:
MH Trauth cs.2005 "Late Cenozoic Moisture History of East Africa" Science
309:2051-3: "3 humid periods at 2.7­2.5, 1.9­1.7 & 1.1­0.9 Ma ... could
have had important impacts on the speciation & dispersal of mammals &
hominins"

--Marc Verhaegen
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT

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