Re: Flaked Stones and Old Bones: Biological and Cultural Evolution at the Dawn of Technology


Thomas Plummer
Flaked Stones and Old Bones:
Biological and Cultural Evolution at the
Dawn of Technology
YEARBOOK OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 47:118­164 (2004)
ABSTRACT: "The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6
million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most important
adaptive shifts in human evolution.

may or may not

Stone artifact
manufacture, large mammal butchery,

yes, stranded whales & drowned bovids

and novel transport
and discard behaviors led to the accumulation of the
first recognized archaeological debris.

"first" says nothing: archeol.remains are scanty

The appearance of
the Oldowan sites coincides with generally cooler, drier,
and more variable climatic conditions across Africa,

collection biases

probably
resulting in a net decrease in woodland foods and an
increase in large mammal biomass compared to the early
and middle Pliocene."

if so, so what??

etc.

empty blabla: they people make a scenario (kudu running...) & then make
everythinkg fit in their nonsense

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