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Title: Study Shows Humans Were Skilled Fishermen 42,000 Years Ago
Source: REUTERS
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/ ... led-fishermen-42000-years-ago/
Published: Jan 15, 2012
Author: REUTERS
Post Date: 2012-01-15 18:05:17 by Brian S
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Australia and Japan said on Friday.

The artifacts — nearly 39,000 fishbones and three fish hooks — were found in a limestone cave in Jerimalai in East Timor, 50 metres (165 feet) above sea level, said Sue O’Connor from the Australian National University’s department of archaeology and natural history.

“There was never any hint of (what) maritime technology people might have had in terms of fishing gear 40,000 years ago,” O’Connor, the study’s lead author, told Reuters by telephone from Canberra.

“(This study showed) you got ability to make hooks, you are using lines on those hooks. If you can make fibre lines, you can make nets, you are probably using those fibres on your boats.”

“It gives us a lot of information on how people subsisted on these very small islands on their way to Australia,” she said.

Modern humans were capable of long-distance sea travel 50,000 years ago as they colonised Australia, but evidence of advanced maritime fishing has been rare.

Researchers until now have only been able to find evidence of open-ocean fishing up to 12,000 years ago.

HOOKS MADE FROM SHELL

O’Connor and her colleagues, who published their findings in the journal Science, found the bones and hooks in a 1 sq metre “test pit” in the cave, 300 metres (985 feet) from the coast.

“All the bones we got inside were just the result of human meals, 40,000 years ago,” said O’Connor.

“They were living in that shelter and we are fortunate that all the materials are preserved so well in that limestone cave, which preserves bone and shell really well,” she said.

The fish hooks were apparently made from the shells of the Trochus, a large sea snail.

“They are very strong shell … we think they just put bait on and dropped the hook in the water from a boat (at the) edge of a reef,” O’Connor said.

The fish bones were traced to 23 species of fish, including tuna, unicornfish, parrotfish, trevallies, triggerfish, snappers, emperors and groupers.

“Parrotfish and unicorn were probably caught on baited hooks … but tuna are deepwater, fast-moving fish. Tuna and trevallies were probably caught by lure fishing,” O’Connor said.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

I wonder what they used for line?

We The People  posted on  2012-01-16   19:02:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: We The People (#1)

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Early fish lines were of gut, vegetable fibers, sinew, or strips of leather. The American Indians of this region twisted lines from the fibrous inner bark of the basswood tree. Ancient Greeks and Romans used horsehair.

The use of brightly colored trout flies and other artificial baits dates back much farther than present-day sportsmen suppose. Apparently the first mention of this method was written by the Greek author Aelian about 200 A. D. He describes a Macedonian way of angling in a river where "there are fish with speckled skins. " These fish fed on a peculiar fly (probably a mayfly) which hovers on the river. However, the fishermen did not use these flies for bait because they lose their natural color and their wings wither. Instead, "they fasten red wool around a hook, and fix on to the wool two feathers which grow under a cock's wattles, and which in color are like wax. Their rod is six feet long, and their line is the same length. .

www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/700-799/nb752.htm

Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-16   19:23:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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