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Old Mon, Aug-08-16, 17:59
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Default Animal proteins on stone age tools

More evidence for early hominids eating meat

http://globalnews.ca/news/2870636/c...tone-age-tools/

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It's quite likely we're not talking about "humans", but about a different species altogether. There's agricultural terraces that cover about 450,000 square kilometers in South Africa, they're about 300,000 years old. Now, if that stone axe is 250,000 yo, how can we explain extensive agriculture on an industrial scale 50,000 years earlier?

Until recently, I used to believe agriculture only appeared about 10k years ago, but I changed my mind when I found out about those terraces in SA. From that point on I started to question everything I believed about our ancient history. Those terraces seem to refute the idea that we're well adapted to eat meat, and confirm the idea that we're better adapted to eat plants, but not really. Let's look at what we do with agriculture, and maybe those terraces were used in the same way then. So grains/beer -/bread -/cattle feed, grapes/wine, what else? I don't know if there's evidence of that near those terraces but I think we should find out.

So maybe the point is we can't rely on what's in our books, or that tiny drop of blood on a stone axe, since the mere existence of those terraces tells us we have no clue, really.
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Old Tue, Aug-09-16, 02:12
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Nowell said human bones have not been found in the area, but the stone tools and the animal proteins tell a story that involves early humans adapting to a difficult environment by hunting and scavenging wildlife.

They assume it's early humans, they have no actual evidence of this assumption. But it won't stop them from writing in our new history books "early humans hunted rhinos and other animals with stone axes, we got proof!".
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One ancient text I am very familiar with is the Bible, which has one of its first stories being the importance of meat; Cain was the vegetarian who slew his brother
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