Re: The Knight of Common Sense Vs. the Pope of Vagueness

claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Claudius Denk:
Another thing that is really obvious from the evidence is the fact
that the stone tools are not found distributed over the greater
savanna. Instead they tend to be found at localities that were well
treed and well watered when these tools/weapons were first deposited
there.

Gerrit:
But who maintains that early hominids like Homo erectus settled down
in the treeless plains? Get rid of the strawman.
Indeed, an early archeological site such as FxJj 50 at Koobi Fora (1.6
mya) was located among the trees in the bend of a paleochannel. This
location would have given the hominids cover and access to fresh water
and raw materials for stone tools. An ideal homebase. Pretty clever.

Claudius Denk:
Not only that but this locality may well have had their main food
staple, fruit trees and other vegetable foods. And protecting these resources
from food competitors (which would have been especially crucial as a
strategy to survive the general scarcity and predatory complications of the dry
season) does a much better job of explaining the stone tools/weapons than does
the notion that they ventured from such a location travelling miles in
predator invested habitat to compete with dedicated hunters/scavengers.
Moreover, the the dental evidence that does indicated that they consumed grass
eating prey species can be better explained as as aspect of ambushing hunting
of inmigrating grass eating species that would have been especially
desperate to find sources of food and water during the dry season.

And you have deduced all this from real data, on the basis of the FxJj
50 site report by Bunn et al. (1997)?

Bunn, H.T. et al. 1997. FxJj 50. In: Isaac, G.Ll and Isaac, B. Koobi
Fora Research Project Vol. 5: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. Oxford
University Press. pp. 192-211.

Gerrit
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