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


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 ...

How many times in a life time do you encounter a stranded whale?

Relevance??
- Most coasts then are under sea level now.
- If such a whale gets fossilised, the stones & bones would preserve well,
just like butchered drowned bovids, which are above sea level today.

The point is that accidentally drowned terrestrial mammals (e.g.
migrating wildebeest) or stranded marine mammals are only an
opportunistic resource.

Yes, but these butcherings preserve unusually well.
Why would waterside omnivorous durophagous dextrous tool-using hominids not
butcher such animals??

Savanna Fantasts are stupid stupid stupid.

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