Re: Hs living in caves three miles from the sea (Re: Hs littoral 164 ka

"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/17/early.seafood.ap/index.html
"Marean figured the early people, probably women, had to trudge two to
three miles to where the mussels, clams and snails were harvested and
to bring them back to the cave."

The idea that Marean (et al.) had the faintest
idea of how far away the coast was at the time
is, of course, crazy. It might have been 100
metres. It might have been ten miles.

The idea that Crowley would know anything about geology is, of course,
even crazier yet:

We are not talking about geology --
but about fluctuating sea-levels.
The fact that they have stayed more-
or-less unchanged in your lifetime
does not mean that _over_geological_
_timescales_ they do not fluctuate
hugely. While it has been well-known
for about five decades, that they do,
this fact has not yet been absorbed
into PA.

At times the sea would have been
very close to this cave. At others,
it would have been far distant.
At which of them is it most likely that
local hominids would have carried
mussels and clams back to them?

OK, it's a tough question.


Paul.


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