Re: fishing in the savanna

On Jan 17, 1:43 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge:
Skeletal Remains Tell the Story

Journal of Human Evolution 56
Throwing in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic:
inferences from an analysis of humeral retroversion,
Jill Rhodes & Steven Churchill 2009

A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man
suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human
evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and Steven Churchill, evolutionary
anthropologists published their findings in the January 2009 edition of the
Journal of Human Evolution. The paper entitled, "Throwing in the Middle and
Upper Paleolithic: inferences from an analysis of humeral retroversion,"
provides some clues to the extinction of Neanderthal.
Projectile weaponry was an important component of early man's survival
toolkit. Traces of projectile weaponry have been found in Africa dating back
some 80,000 years.

If this pile of absolute crap is an advantage, I'll kiss their ass.

http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2006mayaterianpointspage1.htm

Small Levallois points are an advantage, not a hindrance, because
they lasted world-wide longer.
I suggest the reason the Aterians was dropped is because it was bad
tech from the start.

The mass migration by early man out of Africa into Europe
some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, show early European man developed and used
bow and arrows and other projectile devices.

That is a lie. There is little evidence at all for either the atlatl
or the bow and arrow
being invented in Africa. And even if they were, neither require the
use of an
"early modern man's development of a "throwing arm"." or early-stemmed
Aterian points
to be effective.

When the bow and arrow can be proven with hard evidence for them, the
points
were neither stemmed or notched, they were nothing more than broken
blades.
If you have good bitumen (which the Neandertals did) you can haft any
small rock
with a sharp edge to a shaft and it is just as effective as the most
perfect
Cahokia point and ten times better than the Aterian garbage point.
http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2006novembercahokiagempointspage1.htm

The Rhodes/Churchill small
sampling of Neanderthal's skeletal remains indicate he was outmatched by
early modern man's development of a "throwing arm". This anatomical feature
is measured by the degree of humeral retroversion in the dominant arm and in
bilateral asymmetry.
Neanderthal's short squat body, massive limbs and lack of backward
displacement at the shoulder joint may have hampered their ability to
incorporate projectile weaponry.

Liars. Neandertals and their ancestors functioned just fine for over a
half a million
years in Europe without the bow and arrow or the atlatl. That was a
success the Aterians
just couldn't master, but the rest of Africa did well also without
Aterian tech, since
it was restricted to just northern Africa.


According to Jill Rhoades, an evolutionary
anthropologist examinations of early modern European fossils show the
backward displacement at the shoulder joint, but none of the small sampling
of Neanderthal's skeletal remains carry this anatomical characteristic.

Good, because you don't need an
"early modern man's development of a "throwing arm"."
overhand throwing to shoot a bow or throw
an atlatl. Tell a plains Indian, while on a horse shooting an arrow
at a buffalo,
that he needs to be doing that overhand. ROFL.


<snip more total rubbish>


Anthropologists agree, Neanderthal could throw spears short distances, but
never graduated to the use of bow and arrows or spear-throwing technologies.

Gee, The locals here in the NW didn't have the bow until ca. 2000
years ago and
they didn't go extinct, nor did the Aterians overrun them.

Some 40,000 years ago, modern humans trekked out of Africa to Europe taking
their bows and arrows with them for fishing, hunting and warfare.

Liars.

The bow
and arrow enabled modern man to engage his environment and adapt to various
environments.

Liars. One of the worst environments in the world was mastered without
either
the bow or the atlatl...Tasmania (also proving they didn’t leave
Africa with them).

While it is cannot be stated with absolute certainty,
Neanderthal's inability or lack of interest in developing projectile
weaponry may have been an important factor in his eventual demise.

The reason the Aterian was dropped and Levallios continued on is
because
it was a superior method. The Indians from central America had no
problem
throwing atlatl darts through Spanish armor. This did not require a
baseball
overhand type pitch or bow and arrow tech.


Scientists are uncertain as to whether modern human used bow and arrows or
projectile devices against Neanderthal, but it is a distinct possibility.

I am uncertain how incompetent people get a garbage paper like this
one through
peer review.
.

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