[HN Gopher] Homo Sapiens lithic technology in South Asian rainfo... ___________________________________________________________________ Homo Sapiens lithic technology in South Asian rainforest (C. 45k - 8k years ago) Author : rntn Score : 48 points Date : 2022-10-14 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (journals.plos.org) (TXT) w3m dump (journals.plos.org) | JoeAltmaier wrote: | Lots about the stones; not much about why 'Homo Sapiens'. Is it | just because these tools are attributed to Homo Sapiens? I | skimmed the article but didn't see anything about human remains | or dna analysis. | acjohnson55 wrote: | (I'm totally not an expert here) | | There's a ton of archaeological research into human-made stone | tools, worldwide. There's very high degree of confidence at | this point into which artifacts can only really be human-made, | versus made by other animals or natural processes. My guess is | organic evidence of human activity would be really unlikely to | survive in the South Asian rainforests, so I'm guessing this | one of our better sources of information on human activity | there. | | If you're asking how do we know this refers to Homo Sapiens, | versus other species in the genus Homo, I'm guessing we can't | really tell that. | AlotOfReading wrote: | The whole paper is about microliths, which are only known to be | associated with anatomically modern humans (AMH, aka us). This | is just "general background knowledge" in the field, so they | don't spend any time explaining or analyzing it in the paper. | | The particular typology they use here (shea's modes) is also | more complicated on this point than the traditional clark | framework where you can just say "mode 5 == AMH". | hulitu wrote: | They had electric cars 8000 years ago ? /s | LeifCarrotson wrote: | Lithic, meaning stone - think flint knapping. | yellowapple wrote: | How else do you think they built the Pyramids? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-14 23:01 UTC)