AAAS: "Did our ancient relatives practice cannibalism?" About 1.5 million yrs ago, an ancient evolutionary ancestor may have feasted on tissue at least from another Hominidae [modern humans and our close extinct relatives, such as Ardipithecus and Australopithecus], if not a member of their own species. "On the fossil of a shin bone housed at the Nairobi National Museum, researchers have discovered nine previously unidentified incisions made by a stone tool." These cuts were clustered around where the calf muscle [deep muscle = soleus, more superficial muscles = gastrocnemius, skinny muscle in back of calf = plantaris] would be attached, in this case almost certainly the soleus. "This may be the oldest example of butchery, and possibly cannibalism, among our evolutionary relatives, according to a study published today in Scientific Reports." Little too old for an episode of CSI. Also clearly not vegetarians.   #paleoanthropology    #paleoarcheology

Anyone into #archeology esp. #paleoarcheology able to help me find the name of the scientist who in the 80s presented her theory that humans were in S.America (Columbia?) long before #Clovis & must have come to #TheAmericas some 20-30k prior? The article made it clear the archaeology community laughed her off. I read this as a teen before home internet, must've been a mag like Nature or Reader's Digest. I want to find her name & see if she ever got credit! Been bugging me off and on for years.

🦣🐪☠️ Great talk on #underwaterarcheology from the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre's #bcst 🦣🐪☠️
#submergedaarchaeology #Alaska #continentalshelf #princeowales #pleistocene #palaeontology #paleoarcheology
https://fb.watch/iizch8G0UO/

🦣🐪🦬 Were Ice Age hunter-gatherers keeping track of #megafauna reproductive cycles? 🦣🐪🦬 #pleistocene #paleontology #paleoarcheology #caveart
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2023/01/new-study-reveals-evidence-of-early-ice-age-writing-and-what-it-meant/