Gareth Morgan:
Thanks. You seem to have been out of circulation for a while.
I find that this shuts up any objections to the Waterside hypothesis...
https://www.academia.edu/40664984/The_Acheulean_hand_axe_a_toolmakers_perspective
Plus this...
https://www.academia.edu/36514226/Infiltrating_transdermal_reverse_osmosis_in_humans_surviving_the_Miocene

From: AAT@groups.io <AAT@groups.io> on behalf of Kees IJpelaan
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2023 10:40 PM
I was at home in Brussels, thinking about all that. All the best, Kees

Op 28-10-2023 om 21:34 schreef Gareth Morgan:
The problem is that no one accepts it openly.
Where have you been?
https://www.thoughtco.com/archaeological-study-of-shell-middens-170122
140,000 years old, from the Middle Stone Age of South Africa, at sites like Blombos Cave.
https://www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/rethinking-shell-middens/
researchers recognize they can be monumental works of architecture that provide key insights into ancient cultures.
They have recovered nearly 50,000 artifacts, including ceramics and tools made from animal bones and shell.
https://theconversation.com/ancient-undersea-middens-offer-clues-about-life-before-rising-seas-engulfed-the-coast-now-we-have-a-better-way-to-study-them-157413
In two papers published this week our team reports on a breakthrough in detecting and excavating one particular type of coastal archaeological site — shell middens — on what is now the seabed.
https://geology.uga.edu/news/stories/2021/shell-middens-rewrite-history-submerged-coastal-landscapes-north-america-europe
An international team of archaeologists partnered to excavate two sites containing shell middens in the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Jutland in Denmark in 2018, showing that middens can be clearly differentiated from natural shells on the seabed to reveal a coastline's inhabitation past.
.... and on and on and on. No one is working on the Savannah hypothesis. Haven't been for years. Sure, they don't use the term Aquatic Ape, but AAT supporters don't use it either. Everybody knows about omega 3 in sea food and the evolution of brain growth in humans and millions of people have read about AAT and support it. I agree about academics, but who cares about them? They are irrelevant. Millions have watched the TED talk. No one can even name an anti-AATist.

Gareth Morgan:
Sometimes AAT@groups.io reminds me of some group of early Christians hiding in a cave somewhere for fear of persecution... long after Saint Constantine the Great had become emperor of most of the known world. G.

From: AAT@groups.io <AAT@groups.io> on behalf of Kees IJpelaan
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2023 9:59 PM
When no one argues against it, it is not mainstream.
The last to argue against it was John Langdon.
The problem is that no one accepts it openly.
Universities are about carreers, not science. Kees

Op 28-10-2023 om 20:14 schreef Gareth Morgan:
Coastal adaptations have become an important topic in discussions about
Hs evolution & dispersal,
AAT is now mainstream, and has been for a long time. There's no one left arguing against it, is there? G.

From: AAT@groups.io <AAT@groups.io> on behalf of Marc Verhaegen via groups.io <m_verhaegen=skynet.be@groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2023 8:57 PM
To: AAT@groups.io <AAT@groups.io>
Subject: [AAT] coastal adaptations in human evolution & dispersal
Midden or Molehill:
the role of coastal adaptations in human evolution and dispersal
Manuel Will, Andrew Kandel & Nicholas Conard 2019
J World Prehistory 32:33-72 doi org/10.1007/s10963-018-09127-4

Coastal adaptations have become an important topic in discussions about
Hs evolution & dispersal,
but the actual distribution & potential relevance of coastal adaptations
(coastal resources & settlement along shore-lines) in these processes
remains debated, as is the claim that Hn exhibited similar behaviors.
We performed a systematic review, we compared coastal adaptations of
- Hs during the African MSA with
- contemporaneous Hn in mid-Paleolithic Europe.

In both spp, systematic use of marine resources & coastal landscapes
constitutes a consistent behavioral signature over c 100,000 years (MIS
6–3) in several regions of Africa & Europe.
We found more similarities than differences between Hn & Hs, with
remaining disparities all in degree rather than kind.
Hs exploited a wider range of marine resources (particularly shellfish)
more intensively.
MSA shellfish-bearing sites are also more often ass.x
- intense occupations on coastal landscapes,
- more evidence of complex material culture, e.g. shell-beads.
Pleistocene coastal adaptations are best conceived of as an 'add-on' to
previous adaptive strategies, complementing more frequently exploited
inland resources & landscapes.
Still, Hn & Hs increased their dietary breadth & quality, they added
options for occupation & range expansion along coast-lines.
Potential evol.implications of these multi-generational behaviors
include
- higher intakes of brain-selective nutrients as a basis for
neuro-biological changes connected to increased cognitive capacities,
- greater reproductive success, dispersal abilities & behavioral
flexibility.
Whether gradual differences between Hs & Hn stimulated different
evol.trajectories is a question for future research.