tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post911308659534988491..comments2023-08-11T08:21:09.562-06:00Comments on A Very Remote Period Indeed: Ape-man the hunter?Julien Riel-Salvatorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-1479574850888998362010-08-20T13:02:26.256-06:002010-08-20T13:02:26.256-06:00Not at all - it was a completely legitimate questi...Not at all - it was a completely legitimate question... and all we have are hunches at this point, no one's done an experimental study of this yet.Julien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-19541754472724300502010-08-20T00:16:01.025-06:002010-08-20T00:16:01.025-06:00Ok. Was just a wild thought.Ok. Was just a wild thought.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-74226364876210274072010-08-19T16:18:37.598-06:002010-08-19T16:18:37.598-06:00FWIW, I spoke with a colleague who does a lot of e...FWIW, I spoke with a colleague who does a lot of experimental archaeology on animal bone about this... having used bone flakes to cut meat off bones, his impression is that such flakes wouldn't leave much of a cut mark on bone because they're as hard as the bones they'd come in contact with, whereas stone tends to be harder and denser than bone.Julien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-18293063382585455702010-08-17T01:26:13.978-06:002010-08-17T01:26:13.978-06:00I wouldn't say it's necessarily far-fetche...I wouldn't say it's necessarily far-fetched. Smashing bones open with a rock can produce bone flakes that can be quite sharp and conceivably could be used as cutting implements... I'm not aware of any studies focusing of the morphology of cut marks produced by bone flakes, though, so I can't say whether they'd be hard or easy to distinguish from cut marks made with stone toolsJulien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-83445077260948921042010-08-16T22:19:26.205-06:002010-08-16T22:19:26.205-06:00Very interesting review, thanks.
I looked at the...Very interesting review, thanks. <br /><br />I looked at the claims recycled by Kambiz at Anthropology.net and I totally agree that crocodiles do not seem a plausible explanation at all. Obviously we are before a case of intentional tool use with >99% likelihood. <br /><br />As you say, there are other issues because the finding is still an "out of place" one, what always raises Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com