Exploitation d¹un grand cé tacé au Paléolithique ancien (Re: "carnivore tooth marks"




Op 05-03-2008 17:45, in artikel 47CECE46.1AF61B2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rich
Travsky <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:


From the paper http://tinyurl.com/2cvz7h

The abundance of skull and limb bones at this site, as well as at most other
African Plio-Pleistocene archaeological sites, has been interpreted as the
result
of: 1) hominids hunting and selectively transporting those parts from
complete
carcasses (Isaac, 1978, Isaac, 1983, Isaac, 1984, Bunn, 1982, Bunn, 1983,
Bunn,
1991, Bunn and Kroll, 1986, Bunn and Kroll, 1988, Bunn and Ezzo, 1993,
Domínguez-Rodrigo and Pickering, 2003, Domínguez-Rodrigo, 2002, Oliver, 1994,
Rose and Marshall, 1996 and Domínguez-Rodrigo, 1997); 2) hominids
transporting
complete skeletons from partially defleshed carcasses (Capaldo, 1995 and
Capaldo,
1997); or 3) hominids passively scavenging the brain and marrow-bearing long
limb
bones from defleshed carcasses at felid kills (Blumenschine, 1986 and
Blumenschine, 1991).

Why looking for far-fetched just-so "explanations"?
(answer: because of savanna biases)

It's well known by everybody except some obsolete kudu runners that Lower
Paleolithic Homo populations butchered stranded whales, so why wouldn't they
have butchered bovids drowned during the trek? (1/10 of trekking bovids die)

Manuel Gutierrez, Claude Guerin, Maria Lena & Maria Piedade da Jesus 2001
"Exploitation d¹un grand cétacé au Paléolithique ancien: le site de Dungo V
à Baia Farta (Benguela, Angola)"
Comptes Rendus CRAS 332:357-362:
The almost complete skeleton of a large whale Balaenoptera was found closely
associated with 57 Lower Paleolithic artefacts near Baia Farta 3 km from the
present shoreline ... oldest evidence of the exploitation of a stranded
whale by Palaeol.people ...

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