tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post3459784587560774902..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Extreme mobility in the late Pleistocene (Shaw and Stock 2013)Dienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-58243755166350239172013-03-06T05:13:22.347+02:002013-03-06T05:13:22.347+02:00"the hypothesis that people moved around duri..."the hypothesis that people moved around during prehistory, and did not simply grow roots after their initial colonization of the planet, as some models of 'Paleolithic continuity' have affirmed". <br /><br />The basis of virtually all my arguments with Maju. He is certainly one of the greatest exponents of the 'growing roots' theory I've ever had contact with. <br /><br />"The more extreme skeletal structure of most Neandertals and Levantine H. sapiens, as well as the odd Upper Palaeolithic individual, appears to reflect adaptation to intense and/or highly repetitive lower limb (relative to upper limb) loading". <br /><br />So the phenomenon was not confined just to the Upper Paleolithic but extends a considerable way back in our evolution. terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.com