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

Marc Verhaegen wrote:

Savanna Fantast:

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??

Enormous. It's a rare event, compared to millions of animals on land.

- Most coasts then are under sea level now.

Relevance? There are still coasts *today*, and whales washing up are rare.

- If such a whale gets fossilised, the stones & bones would preserve well,
just like butchered drowned bovids, which are above sea level today.

They're always rare enough to attract media attention. As such they're
only an opportunistic resource, whereas the evidence for systematic
hunting and butchering of terrestrial vertebrates is much stronger.
The design aspect of the paleolithic throwing spears at Schöningen is
far from opportunistic. Gerrit

Yes, they confirm the waterside theory.

How does a very very rare event do that?
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