[worst-case scenario]

Thanks for the link - fascinating and thought-provoking discovery. I wonder how they collected the fish they they ate. Nets and fishhooks wouldn’t have lasted 750K years.

[jessduntno]

“Nets and fishhooks wouldn’t have lasted 750K years.”

Clearly, they were made by the even more advanced “Paleo-Plastic Age” humans that supplied them.

[tbw2]

By hand? Using stone weirs? Or looking for those stuck on the rocks of streams, like migrating salmon.

[Beagle8U]

If a bone would last that long, so would the early fishhooks.

Nothing more than a small straight bone with a line tied in the center, most often sharp at both ends.

Push that down the throat of a minnow and when the fish eats it the tension on the jerked line will jam the bone sideways in the fish's mouth/stomach.