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

On Dec 9, 12:36 pm, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

Once stone tools turn up in the record, they are found wherever early
Homo sites are found, be it South Africa, Dmanisi, Iberia, or China.
Tools are a universal Homo trait, no matter how spread out they get
from each other. Chimps OTOH, show only sporatic use for any
particular tool pattern. Not all groups fish for termites with
sticks, not all groups crack nuts with rocks, not all groups use
leaves for umbrellas. They seem to have the tool idea, but just can't
put it all together as a group into one cohesive package.

If early Homo wasn't totally dependent on tool use, why don't they
reflect the sporatic chimp pattern?




Stone artifact
manufacture, large mammal butchery,

yes, stranded whales & drowned bovids

1%


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

"first" says nothing: archeol.remains are scanty

Yep, but universally consistent, unlike chimps.

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

collection biases

In Dmanisi and China too?


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??

Less salad/fruit eaters like chimps in Africa, and more meat/root/nut
eaters like the San running around. The San will eat fish, but it is
in the
bottom % of their overall diet.


etc.

empty blabla: they people make a scenario (kudu running...)

Come on Marc, kudus are just an example. I could go on and on about
the hedgehogs found at the early sites also.

& then make
everythinkg fit in their nonsense

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