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Brings up a good point: the article didn't mention how old the rhino was when it died; maybe the rhino was carrion and the hominins were opportunists on the sce
by cobbzilla 8y ago
Brings up a good point: the article didn't mention how old the rhino was when it died; maybe the rhino was carrion and the hominins were opportunists on the scene? or has this been ruled out & we know the animal was hunted?
- pavel_lishin 8y agoI don't think that matters too much; the important thing is that the bones were split with what appeared to be human tools, whether it was hunted or found.
- cobbzilla 8y agoWe've been using stone tools for ~2.6M years. Is the mystery which hominin is responsible? Or is this the oldest of stone tools to get at bone marrow? I'm trying to understand what's interesting here.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago> Is the mystery which hominin is responsible? That; as far as we know, tool-using hominins hadn't spread that far by that point, and couldn't have because you can't swim that far without a boat that requires more civilization than we think was around then.