Deconstructing Olduvai:
A Taphonomic Study
of the Bed I Sites
by Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo,
Rebeca Barba,
and Charles P. Egeland
Posted on 02/21/2008 3:28:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Olduvai Paleoanthropological and Paleoecological Project (TOPPP) in which the the Universidad Complutense de Madrid participated aims to expose the false presumptions made by previous studies which concluded that the first humans were scavengers... Dominguez-Rodrigo and his team have proved that what the other researchers interpreted as teeth marks made by carnivores on the fossils, are in reality biochemical marks with a very different origin, such as fungus and bacteria that were brought in to contact with the bones by the roots of plants that grew in the sediment in which they were buried... The new data also shows that most of the African archaeological sites of this period are in reality palimpsests in which hominids had in many cases very little to do with the formation of such registries. Therefore, the number of sites with a clear anthropic origin is small, and there are no indications of scavenging behavior in any of them.
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Deconstructing Olduvai:
A Taphonomic Study
of the Bed I Sites
by Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo,
Rebeca Barba,
and Charles P. Egeland
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We can reconstruct that Olduvai for $129.95! Seriously, that's a big price on the book. |
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Uh, lemme know when you do your review ;^)
Nah, construction costs are already to high to begin deconstructing anything.
I’m thinkin’, library copy? ;’)
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