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Eh? Homo Erectus ate meat and almost certainly hunted. There's tons of evidence for this. There's also evidence for this for Neanderthals, homo habilis, homo er
by arp242 3y ago
Eh? Homo Erectus ate meat and almost certainly hunted. There's tons of evidence for this. There's also evidence for this for Neanderthals, homo habilis, homo ergaster and probably other early humans. This behaviour goes back millions of years, and has been a major factor in human evolution.
Tool in hunting use goes back much further than 20,000 years – at least 400,000 for spears in a quick check, but that's just what we have conclusive evidence for. I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually much older. We have evidence of stone scrapers and axes from millions of years ago, and do you think people using stone scrapers to butcher animals and axes to chip down trees couldn't figure out how to make a pointy sticks? It's just that stone preserves well and pointy sticks don't.
- proc0 3y agoWell then that contradicts the claim of the research in the article, which is fine. I'm just assuming it's correct and then asking questions based on that, mainly how it relates to when humans developed language (not the spoken word necessarily, just the capacity for imagination/language, and that is not that old from what I recall reading).