Kit Hamley holds a large male sea lion skull from a bone pile at New Island. Dozens of individual sea lions were present throughout the bone pile assemblages excavated at New Island.Credit: Kit Hamley
Posted on 11/09/2021 10:25:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Kit Hamley holds a large male sea lion skull from a bone pile at New Island. Dozens of individual sea lions were present throughout the bone pile assemblages excavated at New Island.
Credit: Kit Hamley
(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...
[snip] When Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in 1833, he noted the puzzling occurrence of the islands’ sole terrestrial mammal, Dusicyon australis (or “warrah”). The warrah’s origins have been debated, and prehistoric human transport was previously rejected because of a lack of evidence of pre-European human activity in the Falkland Islands. We report several lines of evidence indicating that humans were present in the Falkland Islands centuries before Europeans, including (i) an abrupt increase in fire activity, (ii) deposits of mixed marine vertebrates that predate European exploration by centuries, and (iii) a surface-find projectile point made of local quartzite. Dietary evidence from D. australis remains further supports a potential mutualism with humans. The findings from our study are consistent with the culture of the Yaghan (Yámana) people from Tierra del Fuego. If people reached the Falkland Islands centuries before European colonization, this reopens the possibility of human introduction of the warrah. [/snip]
Reference: “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands” by Kit M. Hamley, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Kathryn E. Krasinski, Dulcinea V. Groff, Brenda L. Hall, Daniel H. Sandweiss, John R. Southon, Paul Brickle and Thomas V. Lowell, 27 October 2021, Science Advances.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh3803
Shiver me timbers, prehistoric navigation.
Thanks Red Badger.
Humanity took to sailing the sea early on, and met with success.
They were dressed for it! :^)
That does it! I want the image of that prehistoric man removed from the cave painting! You can’t go messing with cute, cuddly sea lions like that. Why it’s immoral!
Argentina trumpets this as more “proof” that Las Malvinas belong to Argentina in 5... 4... 3... 2...
In some parts of the world, “prehistoric” isn’t that long ago.
/bingo
They never caught on as a food source because the sub buns are way too large to fit through the takeout window.
LOL! The food-chain is a dynamic game of Rock-Paper-Scissors.
QUEEN ELIZABETH????
heheheh Bear in a wet suit. Nice.
;^)
Heh... Ya just can’t fool mother nature.
I’ve never been tempted to try kayaking, and now that I’m old and chubby and out of shape (I used to just be out of shape), it has even less attraction.
Im not out of shape, round is a shape.
I’m so out of shape, the only way I could complete a mile run is if someone dropped me out of a plane.
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