Re: Eritrean stone tools prove use of marine resources, 2 million years too late




Op 14-07-2007 03:20, in artikel
1184376012.399577.254630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:


Marc Verhaegen wrote:
"beach gravel"...

Enough said, kudu runner?

"The faunal remains all come from large terrestrial
mammals and there is no indication, at this or any other site in
Morocco, that marine fauna was made use of."
Enough said, mountain-beaver man?

My little boy, I'l try again in simple words for simple minds.
Short sentences.
Not difficult.

1) physiology:
Our physiology proves our ancestors were strongly dependent on water.
IOW, probably most of our fossil Homo relatives also were waterside.

2) fossils:
Nothing in the fossil/archeol.record contradicts this.

Okidoki?
Question: Does this mean that there could never have been ostriches near to
Homo fossils?
Answere: No.

In fact, all fossil/arcehol.finds suggest a strong connection to water:
- Mojokerto H.erectus: ?The basal part of the Putjangan Beds is composed of
volcanic breccias containing marine and freshwater molluscs. The rest of the
Putjangan Beds is composed of black clays of lacustrine origin¹ (Ninkovich &
Burckle 1978).
- Chiwondo Beds Malawi: Homo fossils, fish, turtles, crocodiles, large
mammals & molluscs 'in consolidated beds of carbonate cemented sandstone.
Molluscan shell beds crop out as benches up to several meters thick and
several hundred meters wide' (Schrenk cs.1995:59).
- The late Pliocene Chemeron hominid KNM-BC 1 was deposited in a lake filled
basin where fish remains were abundant & mollusc remains accumulated to form
shelly limestones (Martyn & Tobias 1967).
- Early Pleistocene archaeol.sites from the Jordan Valley Erk-el-Ahmar &
¹Ubeidiya are associated with lacustrine & fluvial deposits rich in fresh
water gastropod and bivalve remains, fish, turtles, hippos & birds
(Bar-Yosef & Tchernov 1972).
- Aïn Hanech, 1.8 Ma, was formed on an alluvial floodplain cut by a
meandering river (oxbow lake), and may indicate repeated activities by
hominids at a shallow river embankment (Sahnouni cs.2002).
- Pabbi Hills, Pakistan, 2 Ma: deposits which also contain crocodiles,
turtles, aquatic gastropods & bivalves. The molluscs suggest a large,
slow-moving river with clean shallow water less than 5 m deep (Dennell
2004).
- Sangiran, Java: H.erectus: 'a thin layer of diatoms (unicellular marine
phytoplankton) & dark clays with a marine musselfauna was deposited by the
sea, as was noticed and described before by Professor Martin from Leiden'
(von Koenigswald 1981).
- Hominids on Java were using mollusc shells to butcher mammals, presumably
to gain access to nutritious meats 1.5 Ma (Choi & Driwantoro 2007).
- Majuangou, Nihewan, China, 1.66 Ma: hominids inhabited a lake filled
basin, where the remains of aquatic molluscs, leaves & fruits of aquatic
plants have been discovered, indicating a low energy lakeshore or marsh
environment (Zhu cs.2004).
- Middle Awash, Daka Member, Bouri Formation, Ethiopia, 1 Ma, contains
artefacts, H.erectus cranial & postcrania, abundant hippo fossils,
gastropods & bivalves associated with alluvial, lakeside beaches or shallow
water deposits in distributary channels (Asfaw cs.2002).
- Dungo V, Angola, reveals evidence for the exploitation of a large whale
(Balaenoptera sp) on a former beach >1 Ma. Closely associated with the whale
skeleton were numerous Lower Palaeolithic artefacts, together with numerous
molluscs, other marine invertebrates & shark teeth (Gutierrez cs.2001). Of
course, we all know that sharks run on 2 legs over the African savanna.
- Etc.etc.

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

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