In a companion article in the journal, researchers led by Paola Villa of the University of Colorado in Boulder described the cave's stone tools and evidence of changes in hunting technology, including what appeared to be the bow and arrow.
But Dr. C. Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, argued that there was no good evidence that cooking was older than a quarter of a million years, and that many of the changes in the hominid line that Dr. Wrangham attributes to the discovery of cooking are much better explained by improvements in hunting technology.
The show includes biomaterials, preserving mussel diversity, early hunting technology, and more.
Whale populations have risen and plummeted with changes in market demands, hunting technology, and ocean conditions.
Understanding hunting technology is pivotal in the study of adaptive and innovative forces that influenced the evolution of prehistoric societies.
Results indicate two novelties in the Howiesons Poort hunting technology at Sibudu: the use of quartz barbs and non-retouched quartz blanks.
Although other factors, such as disease and less sophisticated social and trade networks may have also contributed to their demise, says archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University, who was not involved with the study, "it is quite possible that this efficient hunting technology gave a competitive edge to modern humans over the Neandertals".
And our hunting technologies have only improved since then, particularly when it comes to catching fish.
It also hints on their intimate knowledge of these environments and the presence of different hunting technologies.
Zooarchaeological parameters such as mortality profiles and body part representation allowed us to describe certain aspects of these hunting technologies.
Simultaneously, during the cold period beginning around 800 BCE, innovations in housing and hunting technologies accompanied the formation of the Late Paleo-Eskimo or Dorset culture in eastern Arctic (eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland), with population growth and more intensive use of marine mammals, including walrus (8, 9).
