The first stone tools were not hunting implements. They were weapons. More specifically, they were agricultural implements specifically used for pest control, directed against very large food competitor species as part of a hominid community's largerstrategy to survive the annual, predator infested, deadly dry season.
Hunting would have evolved gradually as an extension of pest control communal territorialism. In other words, pest control agriculture evolved first. Hunting using tools/implements would have followed. So, agriculture using pest control implements (originally just sticks and stone wielded against herds of large mammal food competitors species) evolved first. Using these same implements hunting behaviors evolved/emerged gradually. So hunting was NOT the focus of the earliest stone tools.
Maintaining access to fresh food (mostly fruits and nuts) and fresh water through the depths of deadly (predator infested) monsoon generated, dry seasons was the main means of survival for the earliest hominid communities. Communal territorialism wasthe main purpose of the earliest stone tools. Hunting would have been a secondary consideration.
James McGinn / Genius
The Earliest Years of Human Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TwiVul7F0&t=943s&pp=ygUvY2xhdWRpdXMgZGVuayBlYXJsaWVzdCB5ZWFycyBvZiBodW1hbiBldm9sdXRpb24%3D
Op maandag 13 november 2023 om 16:58:20 UTC+1 schreef James McGinn:
The first stone tools were shellfish-openers, of course!
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:06:10 -0800 (PST), Marc Verhaegen <m_ver...@skynet.be> wrote:
Op maandag 13 november 2023 om 16:58:20 UTC+1 schreef James McGinn:
The first stone tools were shellfish-openers, of course!Nope.
The oldest Oldowan is associated with hippo butchery and plant
processing, not shellfish processing: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368393593
The oldest Oldowan is associated with hippo butchery and plant
processing, not shellfish processing: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368393593
The first stone tools were not hunting implements. They were weapons. More specifically, they were agricultural implements specifically used for pest control, directed against very large food competitor species as part of a hominid community's largerstrategy to survive the annual, predator infested, deadly dry season.
Hunting would have evolved gradually as an extension of pest control communal territorialism. In other words, pest control agriculture evolved first. Hunting using tools/implements would have followed. So, agriculture using pest control implements (originally just sticks and stone wielded against herds of large mammal food competitors species) evolved first. Using these same implements hunting behaviors evolved/emerged gradually. So hunting was NOT the focus of the earliest stone tools.
Maintaining access to fresh food (mostly fruits and nuts) and fresh water through the depths of deadly (predator infested) monsoon generated, dry seasons was the main means of survival for the earliest hominid communities. Communal territorialism wasthe main purpose of the earliest stone tools. Hunting would have been a secondary consideration.
James McGinn / Genius
The Earliest Years of Human Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TwiVul7F0&t=943s&pp=ygUvY2xhdWRpdXMgZGVuayBlYXJsaWVzdCB5ZWFycyBvZiBodW1hbiBldm9sdXRpb24%3D
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