From littoral.homo@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 28 04:59:39 2020
"Neandertals on the beach:
Use of marine resources at Grotta dei Moscerini (Latium, Italy)"
P Villa cs 2020 PLoS
doi org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226690
"Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers"
J Zilhão 2020 Science 367:eaaz7943
doi 10.1126/science.aaz7943
These recent papers on frequently-diving neandertals are confirming what we already knew on biological grounds >30 years ago, e.g.
"The aquatic ape theory:
Evidence and a possible scenario"
M Verhaegen 1985 Med Hypoth 16:17-32
"Pachyosteosclerosis suggests archaic Homo frequently collected sessile littoral foods"
M Verhaegen & S Munro 2011
J compar hum Biol 62:237-247
"Pachyosteosclerosis in archaic Homo:
Heavy skulls for diving, heavy legs for wading?"
S Munro & M Verhaegen 2011 p.82-105 in
"Was Man More Aquatic in the Past?
Fifty Years after Alister Hardy"
M Vaneechoutte cs eds 2011 eBook Bentham Sci Publ