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

Savanna Fantast believes bones & stones fossilise better than soft body
parts:

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 ...

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

Me:
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.

SF:
"unusually well"?

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