Jack: There seems to be a lot of "diversity" in whether or not human groups care for such "disabled" people. Many groups take care of them, or try to. But...
Has anyone heard of gorillas, orangutans or gibbons using stones as tools? Clarify: I am NOT asking about chimps using stone as tools (some do), nor about...
... Gorillas have been observed using stones to crack nuts. Not many cases nor widely distributed, and published not too long ago, but I can't say the ...
Does anyone have a reference for gorillas/orangutans/gibbons using stone tools? I have never heard of any of them doing that. ... Thanks, I'm seeking a...
Why stick to primates? Sea otters use rocks to crack shellfish. Gulls and ravens will drop shellfish onto hard rocks. Because of appearance , we tend to favor...
Staying with the original topic, let me ask again: Does anyone know if gorillas, orangutans or gibbons have been seen using stone tools EVER? Parsimony says...
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/archaeology/late/java/shell-tools-szabo-2009.html Shell tool use & cut marks (coastal capuchin monkeys also use shell...
"This has angered commercial abalone divers and surprised biologists trying to figure out how the sea otter releases the creature from the stone. An abalone...
... I'd nitpick with you and the original poster here a little Torfinn. I think it is impossible to deduce that 'stone tool use' is a derived feature of...
... You are of course correct. Problem solving is a shared derived feature of all the great apes, active tool use _might_ be shared for Pan/Homo, while the...
[BBC NEWS] Signs of earliest Scots unearthed Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland. The flints were...
Jack: At one time,and in the Qafzeh area, anyway, both "moderns" and Neandertals used the same kinds of tools. These tools are classified as "Mousterian" by...
Yes, I have some fantastic Neandertal blades. I could shave with some of them. I know both AMH and Neandertals have been found at Qafzeh and Skhul but...
Jack: I'm not sure if things "went to hell in a handbasket" around 45 kyr ago in the Middle East. Some workers feel that Neandertals and "moderns" never really...
Inferring the Demographic History of African Farmers and Pygmy Hunterâ€"Gatherers Using a Multilocus Resequencing Data Set The transition from hunting and...
Our Ancestors Were No Swingers By Michael Balter ScienceNOW Daily News 13 April 2009 Humans descended from apes that lived in trees, but researchers have been...
Did Humans Learn From Hobbits? By Elizabeth Culotta ScienceNOW Daily News 17 April 2009 Thousands of small, sharp-edged flakes of volcanic tuff and chert have...
... Once again the specious linkage of brain size , with intellect, crops up. Why don't chimps, with hobbit sized brains, craft tools like these? It is the...
If the tools are found between 95K and 17K, I would think all tools prior to 45K would not have been from Homo sapiens. I am of the opinion that Homo sapiens...
Homo sapiens already existed in Africa, the Middle-East and Asia more than 100 thousand years ago, so I think its more likely that these tools were made by...
Didn't archaic Hs and He co-exist? Jack ... From: "Marcel" <newpapyrus@...> To: <paleoanthropology@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:03...
Hi Jack, The fact that Archaic Hs (H.heidelbergensis) co-existed with H erectus doesn't rule out one of the species (He) as being ancestral to the other...
Jack: There are H.erectus fossils in Indonesia which have been dated -- by some people -- at as late as 27 kyr ago, but this dating has been questioned,or at...
The only fossil evidence that I'm aware of that Homo erectus-like populations existed at the same time as Homo sapien-like populations pertains to the...
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