Lee/etc psycho proves JTEM right, as always!
Quote:
> My boy: our scenario is about shorelines:
"The excavations at Ain Hanech yielded a large sample of
Mode I technologies (core-forms, retouched pieces, debitage)
associated with a fauna incorporating Equus, bovids, suids,
elephant, hippo and rhino. The dig at the newly discovered
nearby locality of El-Kherba exposed the remains of a
large-sized bovid associated with Oldowan artefacts, indicating
butchery activity as evidenced by microwear polishes
on several stone tools."
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"One of the puzzles about Xiaochanglian is that fish fossils
are extremely rare in the sediments containing artifacts.
My guess is that the ancient lake, at least in this vicinity,
was too saline or alkaline for aquatic vertebrates,while the
streams that fed it, although fresh, may have been to ephermal
and shallow to support fish. A study of the remains of
microscopic crustaceans by Manuel Palacios, of the University
of Arizona, confirms that the lake was saline."
Geoffrey G. Pope June 1993 Ancient Asia's Cutting Edge. Natural
History.
"Some fif{*filter*} miles inland from the present-day lakeshores
lies an area where the sediments are pre{*filter*}ly fluviatile....
This is the Karari Escarpment (fig. 1). These fluviatile beds
contain the greatest abundance of artifacts found in the Koobi
Fora area, and archaeological research has been consentrated
here (Harris 1978, Isaac and Harris 1978). P113 fairly open,
dry Acacia-Commiphora savanna or parkland. Vast flood plain,
flat savanna terraine streching for 15 kmeastward to the rim
of hills.
Henry Bunn, John W. K. Harris, Glynn Isaac, Zefe Kaufulu,
Ellen Kroll, Kathy Schick, Nickolas Toth, and Anna K.
Behrensmeyer.
1980 FxJj50: an Early Pleistocene site in northern Kenya.
World Archaeology Vol. 12, No. 2:109-136.
"Most of these sources of suitable boulders tend to be in
volcanic highlands, whereas most of the bi{*filter*} implements
are found along stream courses within the sedimentary basin."
Toth, Nicholas. Behavi{*filter*}inferences from Early Stone
artifact assemblages: an experimental model.
Journal of Human Evolution (1987) 16, 763-787
"At Olduvai the Acheulean sites tend to lie along the former
stream channels away from the playa lakes (Hay 1967a, 1976)."
