tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post1712453058481944217..comments2023-08-11T08:21:09.562-06:00Comments on A Very Remote Period Indeed: Shake your (Acheulean) money makerJulien Riel-Salvatorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-36960360790126830742012-03-07T20:57:48.755-07:002012-03-07T20:57:48.755-07:00Torwen -
Thanks for your comment. Mithen did inde...Torwen - <br />Thanks for your comment. Mithen did indeed write something about some especially symmetrical handaxes serving as a type of 'costly signaling' to get mates. You're definitely right that his argument was about as convincing as this one, for many of the same reasons. <br /><br />Nowell and Chang wrote a very through debunking of his argument, in a paper that is available Julien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-38458829196024883122012-03-07T19:13:50.910-07:002012-03-07T19:13:50.910-07:00Didn't Steven Mithen write something about han...Didn't Steven Mithen write something about handaxes and symmetry? It was however, more about sexual selection than money ... but then, on the other hand, there probably isn't much difference :)Torwenhttp://torwenb.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-29494478604466358712012-03-06T21:13:56.794-07:002012-03-06T21:13:56.794-07:00Terry -
that's certainly a possibility, though...Terry -<br />that's certainly a possibility, though it would depend on the size of the social network over which these things were exchanged, and the amount of 'trade' taking place. Unless of course, they got traded back and forth between parties, in which case distance to source might not be a good indicator of the amount, intensity or even nature of this form of commodity exchange. Julien Riel-Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05344338385695383003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22925401.post-7453785369561242892012-03-06T00:31:39.022-07:002012-03-06T00:31:39.022-07:00Surely if the axes were used as 'trade' th...Surely if the axes were used as 'trade' they should have moved some distance from where the original rock was found. With increasing development of petrological analysis it should be possible to at least gain some idea of distances 'traded'.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.com