Re: Bad Archaeology


"Tom McDonald" wrote...
On Sep 7, 8:27 am, "J.LyonLayden" <JosephLay...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 7, 4:43 am, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:47:14 -0000, "J.LyonLayden"
<JosephLay...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 6, 8:35 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:34:45 -0500, Tom McDonald

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I'm thinking I have to mostly stick to fishing villages with 50-60
people for the sedentary clans.
I'm wondering if I can have them w/ fishing poles. We know they fished
but we don't know how.
Oldest stone hooks are 20,000...but was bone used before that date?

How about nets and spears?

We know maori used nets thousands of feet long. Why should not our
primitive ancestors?

Excellent thanks.

Maybe not entirely out of the question for the last few tens of
thousands of years; but I think using nets a half-million years ago
would be fraught with fraughtiness. I'd go with toggle hooks (see
below), and perhaps natural tidal pools for hand-catching or stick-
spearing.

But what about bone hooks? Is it plausible?

Bone might have preserved fairly well in some contexts, so you might
want to be careful with that.

Hooks, as the 'J" things we tend to think of, might be problematic in
any media.

However, I think using wooden toggles (double-pointed short, strong
sticks with a groove in the middle for the string) might solve all the
problems. They are attested in the archaeology (although I don't know
to what time-depth, nor to which Homo other than Hss), they are very
effective, and they would rot quite nicely in the interrum.

You'd probably have to have something to bait the toggle, and a stone
sinker of some sort to keep it down.

just an idea...

http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/tsimsian/menfi01e.html


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