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

On Mar 12, 9:57 am, Gerrit Hanenburg <G.Hanenb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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??

I don't deny opportunistic butchering of drowned animals by early
hominids, but once again you snip an essential part of my argument,
namely:

Regular reliance on animal tissue as a resource requires systematic
hunting. That's the significance of the throwing spears from
Schöningen, that active hunting was not a single episode event.

What do you think those spears were used for? Beating an already dead
(drowned) horse?

Gerrit

Naturally "Drowned horse" atypical.
Induced drowned "trapped horse" typical.
I'm sure you've heard of a box canyon where herds can be entrapped, or
cliffs where they can be driven over. The same thing is done in
wetlands and waterways, drive them into the water, make them tire out
swimming away from thrown pebbles, then thrust or hurl a few spears to
immobilize.

Later a rope was added and a break-away point, to harpoon whales/fish/
seals as well.



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