Hey, look at that S car go!
Posted on 12/15/2008 7:48:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Taste for flesh troubled NeanderthalsThe extinction of the Neanderthals could have been caused by their choosy appetites - they ate virtually nothing but meat... "They were picky eaters," says Dr Paul Pettitt, at the University of Oxford, UK. "And this tells me that they are really unchanging - doing the same old thing year after year... Neanderthals were excellent hunters," Dr Petitt told BBC News Online. "But the issue that was at stake was whether they hunted every day of their lives or whether it was just a summer outing." ...The early humans themselves may have been better hunters than the Neanderthals, depriving them of their kills. Or the hunted animals may have been struck by disease or migrated away.
by Dr Damian Carrington
BBC News Online
Monday, 12 June, 2000What the Hominid AteAnalyzing carbon atoms locked up in tooth enamel, two researchers challenge the widely held belief that Australopithecus africanus -- an upright, walking pre-human hominid that lived in southern Africa -- ate little more than fruits and leaves. Matt Sponheimer, an anthropology graduate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Julia Lee-Thorp of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, looked at four A. africanus fossil skeletons unearthed from South Africa. Living about 3 million years ago, A. africanus may be a direct ancestor of modern humans. A. africanus teeth were large and blunt with thick enamel, ideal for crushing nuts and chewing fruit as opposed to the sharp incisors one would want to rip into meat. The first stone tools, which would help in eating meat, didn't appear until about half a million years later. Sponheimer and Lee-Thorp took a new approach, looking at the chemical composition of the tooth enamel. After chipping about two milligrams of enamel with a diamond-tipped dental drill, the researchers analyzed the samples for the isotope carbon-13, which contains one extra neutron in the nucleus compared to the usual form of carbon. What Sponheimer and Lee-Thorp found was that the teeth of A. africanus had an in-between amount carbon-13 -- more than the fruit eaters, less than the grass eaters.
by Kenneth Chang
A remarkably stupid article. Primitive peoples everywhere eat anything they can get ahold of.
Picky eaters are found only in wealthy societies.
Hey, look at that S car go!
It was a brave neanderthal who ate the first raw oyster.
Probably didn’t have any red sauce with horseradish.
“I suggest you hit, sir.”
Yeah, brave... Neandertals used to go out and kill, dress, cook, and eat mammoths. ;’D
After eating slimy oysters, a Mammoth is nothing.
How sweet!
Thank you. It is nice to know a bit about my ancient bloodlines.
:’) Nice to meet a cousin. ;’)
Did you sink into the soup?
The time stamps here confused me until I read the dates. LOL
How did I reply to you a second before you posted?
I think we all did, on election day. :’o
Do 4” to 5” termite lavae substitute? Tried it in Rhodesia, by slamming a rifle butt into a 16’ mound and extracting MANY snacks.
I’ve heard termite was good. I’ve heard no one, any where, to have claimed to have eaten slug, let alone said it was tastey. Did you send any termites to a taxidermist? Might make a nice scene with the other trophies.
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