https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00956-1
Highlights
- Bone tools from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, dated to 120,000 to 90,000 years ago
- Bone tools likely used for leather and fur working, and other activities
- Carnivore bones from cave show they were skinned for fur removal
Primum Sapienti wrote:
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00956-1
HighlightsIt's disarticulated. Meaning, they're claiming tools for a specific process when
- Bone tools from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, dated to 120,000 to 90,000 years ago
- Bone tools likely used for leather and fur working, and other activities - Carnivore bones from cave show they were skinned for fur removal
that process would require a great deal more, some of it unlikely to ever be located in a cave dwelling.
I agree that it's likely that the processing of animal skins occurred fairly early,
but there's some basic technology they needed to invent first. And, it's not a
process that would likely be undertaken within a confined living space.
Like, don't you need some type of container for liquid?
One method I speculated on would be to dig a hole near a water source, like
a river or lake. The water table would obviously be quite low and it would fill
up. So right there you have a "Container" of sorts for holding water. But if you
try the same thing elsewhere not only won't there be any water but, if you filled it with water -- or pee -- it would just drain into the soil.
Another method might be to dig out a log or segment there of, creating a
type of "Bowl." This is the same technology, so to speak, necessary for a dugout canoe and one would certainly follow the other. But, when? Far
enough back for this and perhaps older tanning?
Type-B of the above would be the same thing carved in stone.
A final method might be a skull, but it would have to be pretty large. Maybe a giant Cave Bear or Mammoth? I mean, you're not going to fit a very large animal skin or segment of a skin inside of a squirrel skull.
-- --Ostrich eggshells.
https://jtem.tumblr.com/post/662969646320877568
Ostrich eggshells.
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00956-1
... "A cetacean tooth tip ... shows the use of a marine mammal tooth by early humans."
Archaic Homo (erectus-neanderth.) dived for aquatic foods (ear exostoses, pachyosteosclerosis POS etc.), probably mostly shellfish (stone tools, seafood=brainfood etc.),
120-90 ka (MSA), H.sapiens (no POS any more) still still lived along coasts-rivers & used marine resources.
Google "coastal dispersal Pleistocene HOMO PPT".
Only complete idiots believe their ancestors ran after kudus.
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00956-1
... "A cetacean tooth tip ... shows the use of a marine mammal tooth by early humans."
Archaic Homo (erectus-neanderth.) dived for aquatic foods (ear exostoses, pachyosteosclerosis POS etc.), probably mostly shellfish (stone tools, seafood=brainfood etc.),
120-90 ka (MSA), H.sapiens (no POS any more) still still lived along coasts-rivers & used marine resources.
Google "coastal dispersal Pleistocene HOMO PPT".
Only complete idiots believe their ancestors ran after kudus.
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