Re: Our-cavemen-ancestors-200-000-years-ago-were-brilliant-at-barbequing!

On Sep 23, 7:10 pm, charles <charles.uzz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 22, 10:51 pm, Lee Olsen <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/169128.php/Our-cavemen-ancestors-200-0...

"Lead author Reuven Yeshurun has discovered a Misliya Cave in Mount
Carmel, Israel, and found evidence of a relatively sophisticated
hunting and food preparation style. He said the cave presented "the
full array of modern hunting behaviour", adding that this behaviour
included "systematic hunting of large, prime-age animals, transport of
the animals - or parts thereof - to the site, systematic butchery in
order to extract meat and marrow, and roasting the meat".

Very cool research... love to see cut marks and stone tools related to
each other (since that is an area, IMHO, that needs clear-er
research).

[web.pdx.edu]

"Usewear must be considered a probabilistic science, and as in other
realms of anthropological and archaeological inquiry, it is necessary
always to use multiple, independent lines of evidence to make the
best
case for a given argument."

The above authors meet this test in spades. Cut marks are collaborated
w/spiral fractures, bone-distribution percentages,
burnt bones etc....



I have climbed on parts of Mt. Carmel. It is surrounded on three
sides by water,

Great, give us some input. How deep are the surrounding waters? Anyway
a person might get depth charts for this area?


so it was interesting to see this chunk:
"He said the archaeologists also found 28 fragments of ostrich
eggshells, perhaps indicating that the cave dwellers ate huge ostrich
eggs too."

Yep, no algae, no coconuts, no seahells. Pretty much your normal
savanna creatures.



and also of extreme interest is this:
"Yeshurun and his team say if Homo sapiens were in Israel 200,000
years ago, that could rewrite human history."

"if" pigs could fly...could go either way. Need more tool data. Hn and
Hss were using basically the same tools at this time, but there were
some slight differences.


Although I guess this could be explained by a land bridge...
literally... since that part of the Middle East may not have broken
away from the Egypt part at that time 200 kya. ???

The Mediterranean has fluctuated in depth (I think I have a paper on
this somewhere). Maybe the level was low at the time of occupation and
the sea was at a greater distance then or they just didn't like
seafood.

The rock is
identical across that region.http://wmthemes.jessanderson.org/doc/earth_from_apollo.html

and across this land bridge we traveled very quickly. It isn't that
hard to imagine that we traveled a long way in a few thousand years of
our initial evolution into hss. That is, say we mutated and became
hss 201,000 years ago, then that gives a full 1000 years to travel to
Mt. Carmel and set up shop keeping. <smile>

Thanks for the article.
--c


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