"Who Was Eating Salmon 45,000 Years Ago in the Caucasus?" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Sep 2013 12:12 p.m. PST |
"Why did anatomically modern humans replace Neandertals in Europe around 40,000 years ago? One hypothesis suggests that Neandertals were rigid in their dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of dietary resources, including fish. This dietary flexibility of modern humans would have been a big advantage when competing with Neandertals and led to their final success. In a joint study, Professor Hervé Bocherens of the University of Tübingen, Germany, together with colleagues from the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium have found at a cave in the Caucasus Mountains indirect hints of fish consumption by Neandertals. The scientists challenge the hypothesis of evolutionary advantage of modern humans on basis of dietary choice. Bone analyses ruled out cave bears and cave lions to have consumed the fish whose remains were found at the Caucasian cave
" Full article here link So, we have to eat fish!. (smile). Amicalement Armand |
The Dozing Dragon | 19 Sep 2013 4:36 p.m. PST |
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charared | 19 Sep 2013 7:38 p.m. PST |
I WAS! (And I'm STILL chocking on them pin bones!) |
StygianBeach | 21 Sep 2013 11:32 a.m. PST |
Gee, I always thought the Human advantage was trade.. Humans traded like crazy, while Neaderthals stayed home and waited for hunting season. I guess as alway the true answer will be complicated. |
Psyckosama | 04 Nov 2013 10:37 a.m. PST |
There's also the environmental issue. At about the time Modern humans came to dominate the forests of Europe were thinning out. Neanderthals were not well suited to long term athletic endurance. They were monstrously powerful but not long range walkers and their ambush and stab hunting tactics didn't work well in the open. Modern humans on the other hand thrive in open space, matched only by the wolf when it comes to sheer walking endurance (and even then, only then in temperate environments) and made heavy use of thrown weapons which were more suited to killing prey you couldn't get right up next to. |
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