2000 years, many dozens of generations. The intensity and nutritionalyields of these well-documented butchering activities, combined with
The intensity and nutritional
yields of these well-documented butchering activities, combined with previously reported data from this Neumark-Nord site complex, suggest
that Neanderthals were less mobile and operated within social units substantially larger than commonly envisaged.
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: >implications for Neanderthal behavior >https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8186
Palaeoloxodon antiquus were the largest Pleistocene terrestrial mammals in Eurasia between 800 & 100 ka.
The occasional co-occurrence of their skeletal remains with stone tools has generated rich speculation about interactions with Pleistocene humans:
did hominins scavenge on elephants that died a natural death? or maybe even hunt some individuals?
Our archaeo-zoological study of the largest P.antiquus assemblage known (excavated from 125-ka lake deposits in Germany) shows:
hunting of elephants (up to 13 metric tons) was part of the cultural repertoire of Last Interglacial Hn there, over 2000 yrs.
The intensity & nutritional yields of these well-documented butchering activities + previously reported data from this Neumark-Nord site complex suggest:
Hn were less mobile, and operated within social units substantially larger than commonly envisaged.
Well possible Hn hunted Pal.antiquus sometimes.
There's also no doubt they still frequently dived:
- pachy-osteo-sclerosis He>Hn>Hs,
- huge brain Hn>Hs>>He>>ape-apith: DHA etc.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 14:59:22 -0800 (PST), "littor...@gmail.com" <littoral.homo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago:
implications for Neanderthal behavior
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8186
Palaeoloxodon antiquus were the largest Pleistocene terrestrial mammals in Eurasia between 800 & 100 ka.
The occasional co-occurrence of their skeletal remains with stone tools has generated rich speculation about interactions with Pleistocene humans:
did hominins scavenge on elephants that died a natural death? or maybe even hunt some individuals?
Our archaeo-zoological study of the largest P.antiquus assemblage known (excavated from 125-ka lake deposits in Germany) shows:
hunting of elephants (up to 13 metric tons) was part of the cultural repertoire of Last Interglacial Hn there, over 2000 yrs.
The intensity & nutritional yields of these well-documented butchering activities + previously reported data from this Neumark-Nord site complex suggest:
Hn were less mobile, and operated within social units substantially larger than commonly envisaged.
Well possible Hn hunted Pal.antiquus sometimes.
There's also no doubt they still frequently dived:
- pachy-osteo-sclerosis He>Hn>Hs,
- huge brain Hn>Hs>>He>>ape-apith: DHA etc.
Who needs shellfish when you've got 13 metric tons of meat, marrow,
fat, and brain tissue?
Who needs shellfish when you've got 13 metric tons of meat, marrow,
fat, and brain tissue?
Who needs shellfish when you've got 13 metric tons of meat, marrow,
fat, and brain tissue?
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: implications for Neanderthal behavior https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8186
Palaeoloxodon antiquus were the largest Pleistocene terrestrial mammals in Eurasia between 800 & 100 ka.
The occasional co-occurrence of their skeletal remains with stone tools has generated rich speculation about interactions with Pleistocene humans:
did hominins scavenge on elephants that died a natural death? or maybe even hunt some individuals?
Our archaeo-zoological study of the largest P.antiquus assemblage known (excavated from 125-ka lake deposits in Germany) shows:
hunting of elephants (up to 13 metric tons) was part of the cultural repertoire of Last Interglacial Hn there, over 2000 yrs.
The intensity & nutritional yields of these well-documented butchering activities + previously reported data from this Neumark-Nord site complex suggest:
Hn were less mobile, and operated within social units substantially larger than commonly envisaged.
Well possible Hn hunted Pal.antiquus sometimes.
There's also no doubt they still frequently dived:
- pachy-osteo-sclerosis He>Hn>Hs,
- huge brain Hn>Hs>>He>>ape-apith: DHA etc.
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior
Pandora wrote:
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 14:59:22 -0800 (PST), "littor...@gmail.com"
<littoral.homo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago:
implications for Neanderthal behavior
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8186
Palaeoloxodon antiquus were the largest Pleistocene terrestrial mammals in Eurasia between 800 & 100 ka.
The occasional co-occurrence of their skeletal remains with stone tools has generated rich speculation about interactions with Pleistocene humans:
did hominins scavenge on elephants that died a natural death? or maybe even hunt some individuals?
Our archaeo-zoological study of the largest P.antiquus assemblage known (excavated from 125-ka lake deposits in Germany) shows:
hunting of elephants (up to 13 metric tons) was part of the cultural repertoire of Last Interglacial Hn there, over 2000 yrs.
The intensity & nutritional yields of these well-documented butchering activities + previously reported data from this Neumark-Nord site complex suggest:
Hn were less mobile, and operated within social units substantially larger than commonly envisaged.
Well possible Hn hunted Pal.antiquus sometimes.
There's also no doubt they still frequently dived:
- pachy-osteo-sclerosis He>Hn>Hs,
- huge brain Hn>Hs>>He>>ape-apith: DHA etc.
Who needs shellfish when you've got 13 metric tons of meat, marrow,
fat, and brain tissue?
Not to mention hides and hair. mv and the aa crowd don't
ever think of keeping warm in winter. Can't wear shells or
fish skins to keep warm...
Maybe they had a thick layer of blubber, which made them look like a cetacean: https://postimg.cc/3WwVGx68
Maybe they had a thick layer of blubber, which made them look like a
cetacean: https://postimg.cc/3WwVGx68
Fig.1 from Med.Hypoth.16:17-32, 1985
"The Aquatic Ape Theory: evidence and a possible scenario"
:-) Perfect! Thanks a lot!
Where did you find this, my boy?
I made this sketch in 1985 already, when I still was so stupid as to believe that we descended from apiths:
Fig.1 Reconstruction of a swimming ancestor
If the AAT is true, our ancestors must have been +-streamlined, to reduce water resistance & heat loss.
I have tried to reconstruct a side-view of a late Pliocene male Homo, swimming under water.
The sketch is based on the picture of a human skeleton (49), modified as follows:
- The head is dorsi-flexed (to set the eyes in the swimming-direction, as in all mammals swimming under water).
- The brain skull is lower, smaller & shifted dorsally (as in the platycephalic Java man).
- The jaws are more robust. A chin is missing (as in all extinct hominoids). >- The foramen magnum lies a little bit more dorsally (as in e.g. A.africanus (50)).
- Sacrum & coccyx are somewhat less projecting dorsally (as in early hominid pelves: before the great enlargement of the newborns brain, the present-day broad pelvic passage was unnecessary).
- The knee region is a bit smaller. The tibia & ankle region is a lot smaller (as in australopiths (51)), but the feet are rel.broader (as in the Laetolil footprints, see C).
Upon this modified skeleton, I have sketched a +-thick-bellied man (see B), with baldness, uncut neck-hair, beard & moustache (see D).
The dorsally projecting portion of the glutaeus maximus muscle is drawn a little bit smaller (only in complete BPity it became important in fully extending the hip joints (52).)
Maybe they had a thick layer of blubber, which made them look like a
cetacean: https://postimg.cc/3WwVGx68
Fig.1 from Med.Hypoth.16:17-32, 1985
"The Aquatic Ape Theory: evidence and a possible scenario"
:-) Perfect! Thanks a lot!
Where did you find this, my boy?
I made this sketch in 1985 already, when I still was so stupid as to believe that we descended from apiths:
Fig.1 – Reconstruction of a swimming ancestor
If the AAT is true, our ancestors must have been +-streamlined, to reduce water resistance & heat loss.
I have tried to reconstruct a side-view of a late Pliocene male Homo, swimming under water.
The sketch is based on the picture of a human skeleton (49), modified as follows:
- The head is dorsi-flexed (to set the eyes in the swimming-direction, as in all mammals swimming under water).
- The brain skull is lower, smaller & shifted dorsally (as in the “platycephalic” Java man).
- The jaws are more robust. A chin is missing (as in all extinct hominoids).
- The foramen magnum lies a little bit more dorsally (as in e.g. A.africanus (50)).
- Sacrum & coccyx are somewhat less projecting dorsally (as in early hominid pelves: before the great enlargement of the newborn’s brain, the present-day broad pelvic passage was unnecessary).
- The knee region is a bit smaller. The tibia & ankle region is a lot smaller (as in australopiths (51)), but the feet are rel.broader (as in the Laetolil footprints, see C).
Upon this modified skeleton, I have sketched a +-thick-bellied man (see B), with baldness, uncut neck-hair, beard & moustache (see D).
The dorsally projecting portion of the glutaeus maximus muscle is drawn a little bit smaller (only in complete BPity it became important in fully extending the hip joints (52).)
And then came the Nariokotome skeleton and the Ileret footprints that
proved you wrong in several respects.
For example, the feet were not relatively broader: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1168132
and the foramen magnum was not positioned more dorsally, as in A.
africanus, but more anteriorly as in modern humans: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.009
Maybe they had a thick layer of blubber, which made them look like a
cetacean: https://postimg.cc/3WwVGx68
Fig.1 from Med.Hypoth.16:17-32, 1985
"The Aquatic Ape Theory: evidence and a possible scenario"
:-) Perfect! Thanks a lot!
Where did you find this, my boy?
I made this sketch in 1985 already, when I still was so stupid as to believe that we descended from apiths:
Fig.1 Reconstruction of a swimming ancestor
If the AAT is true, our ancestors must have been +-streamlined, to reduce water resistance & heat loss.
I have tried to reconstruct a side-view of a late Pliocene male Homo, swimming under water.
The sketch is based on the picture of a human skeleton (49), modified as follows:
- The head is dorsi-flexed (to set the eyes in the swimming-direction, as in all mammals swimming under water).
- The brain skull is lower, smaller & shifted dorsally (as in the platycephalic Java man).
- The jaws are more robust. A chin is missing (as in all extinct hominoids).
- The foramen magnum lies a little bit more dorsally (as in e.g. A.africanus (50)).
- Sacrum & coccyx are somewhat less projecting dorsally (as in early hominid pelves: before the great enlargement of the newborns brain, the present-day broad pelvic passage was unnecessary).
- The knee region is a bit smaller. The tibia & ankle region is a lot smaller (as in australopiths (51)), but the feet are rel.broader (as in the Laetolil footprints, see C).
Upon this modified skeleton, I have sketched a +-thick-bellied man (see B), with baldness, uncut neck-hair, beard & moustache (see D).
The dorsally projecting portion of the glutaeus maximus muscle is drawn a little bit smaller (only in complete BPity it became important in fully extending the hip joints (52).)
And then came the Nariokotome skeleton and the Ileret footprints that
proved you wrong in several respects.
:-D No, no, my little boy, they confirm my view,
e.g. young chimps have more humanlike feet than adult chimps.
For example, the feet were not relatively broader:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1168132
and the foramen magnum was not positioned more dorsally, as in A.
africanus, but more anteriorly as in modern humans:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.009
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