Re: Homo erectus, city dweller and sailor

On Sep 6, 9:59 pm, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
MINERVA JULY/AUGUST 2007 (VOL 18.4)

MINERVA WORLD EXCLUSIVE A New Palaeolithic Revolution

The 'Rangki Papa' ('Father of all Rafts') built using Palaeolithic
technology and approaching the coast of Komodo, Bali, having succeeded
in crossing from Sumbawa, 7 October 2004. The vessel travelled 36.4km
in 9 hours 22 minutes,

While very interesting one has ask after the credibility of a man who thinks
showing a raft can float has any bearing upon what he it talking about. It leads
me to suspect the article has been sanitized to eliminate his wilder ideas.

No he's actually quite sane and has good reason for his experiment.
Thor Heyerdal did a similar thing and it helped our understnading.
Here's an article on the raft guy:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20031018/bob8.asp


Problem is this makes an outstanding question worse. That is the sudden rise of
civilization by HSS after being around for 100,000 years or so. Now we have HSS
seeing HE villages from his first appearance and still not getting the idea
until 6000 years ago.

No he got the idea. Dolni Vestonice is 26000 ybp, and it was more
complex than this. the implication is that the genus Homo has been
building stone huts since 500,000 or earlier. We just haven't been
looking in the right places. And also, stone wasn't always the
material used, so it didn't always last.

Have you seen some of the caves that neanderthal lived in? They were
really cool caves.

Why would you bother building a stone hut if you had a naturally made
apartment complex, like the caves in France?




What I want to know is, what do these guys propose that HE was fishing
with? The oldest known hook is 20,000 ybp.

Maybe hooks were made of bone before that time, and hence perishable?
Or maybe they've got evidence of spear fishing or nets in the village?

Any pro out there with good educated guess?


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