tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post6542018020438631111..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Last Neandertals of Russia's NorthDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-86236997345540603712011-05-16T17:30:07.044+03:002011-05-16T17:30:07.044+03:00"None of the 313 artefacts reflects a tool pr..."None of the 313 artefacts reflects a tool production technology typical of UP cultures. Furthermore, diagnostic tools that are common in any UP industry of Eurasia such as burins, backed tools, pointed blades, or bladelets are not represented. There are 11 end-scrapers, but none of these were prepared from UP blades. Varieties of end-scrapers, prepared from flakes, are common elements in any European MP industry, known since the first Mousterian typological analysis (16). Typological tools are mainly members of the Mousterian group (16 ), dominated by distinctive side-scrapers made out of flakes (fig. S5, nos. 1 and 2) that are typical for MP industries (17) (fig. S6 and table S4). Six of these tools have been retouched to form a bifacial tool."<br /><br />It's noteworthy that this description could well be applied to the earliest New World toolkits, which are notably short of Upper Paleolithic elements (bladelets/microblades so common in Siberia are almost entirely absent in America outside of Alaska) but are dominated by flakes and bifaces. The reliance on flakes and bifaces likely reflects small population size and high mobility, which is again characteristic of both Mid-Pleistocene hominids in the Old World and New World humans. Levallois cores have recently been uncovered from 28,000 year depth in Florida (Purdy, FLORIDA'S PEOPLE DURING THE LAST ICE AGE). The presence of X chromosome B006 haplotype and blood group O at elevated frequencies in both Amerindians and Neandertals seems to reflect the same pattern.German Dziebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10703679732205862495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-8766894562751041372011-05-14T14:35:45.631+03:002011-05-14T14:35:45.631+03:00Looking through the dates and literature for a few...Looking through the dates and literature for a few minutes, it seems to me that the most plausible explanation is that this region -- from southern Ukraine (Kostenki) to these far northern sites -- is simply a picture of what happened between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, demonstrating both the variation in AMHs and their intellectual capabilities at this time. There is no way that there was a AMH/Neanderthal interplay for 10,000 years in this area. There is also little reason to assume Neanderthals made it this far north and could survive. <br /><br />My bet is what we see here is a combination of the revolution ~45,000 years ago (still to be better characterized) and variations expected at frontier "cultures."eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-85242687927819239132011-05-14T07:26:08.505+03:002011-05-14T07:26:08.505+03:00I am confused. In their Mamontovaya Kurya paper, ...I am confused. In their Mamontovaya Kurya paper, some of the same authors claim that <i>The stone-working technology reflected in the Byzovaya material is similar to that of Sungir and other early Upper Palaeolithic sites of the eastern Szeletien tradition, indicating that these artefacts were manufactured by modern humans.</i> Which one is it? Also, if Byzovaya is Neanderthal, than the much earlier Mamontovaya Kurya seems more likely to be Neanderthal, as well.eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.com