The hunt for monkeys 45,000 years ago in the rainforests of Sri Lanka
Beginning in the late Pleistocene and later, our species lived in a variety of environments, spreading beyond Africa. And tropical forests were considered a kind of barrier for human settlement, mainly due to the fact that the appetizing megafauna or animals weighing more than 44 kg were not found in these forests. Nevertheless, in Sri Lanka, in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and other parts of the world, the earliest evidence of their settlement by people is often associated with tropical forests. In Sri Lanka, people have relied on tropical forest resources for more than 30 thousand years. It is likely that they used small and complex stone, as well as bone tools, which were found on the island in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.
It is rather interesting, what foodstuffs supported populations of people in these periods in the tropical forest and what hunting strategies did they use?
In the new work, researchers from the department of archeology, the Max Planck Institute for Natural Sciences in Germany, as well as scientists from Sri Lanka, Australia, Great Britain and the USA tried to answer these questions using new chronometric, artifact, archeological and archeological analyzes within the archaeological area. Cave Fa Hien-Lena on the island of Sri Lanka, which was previously dated to 38 thousand years.
Mammals, reptiles, mollusks and plant remnants of tropical forests were found on the site. However, as the researchers note, the human exploitation of specific resources has not yet been demonstrated directly due to the lack of systematic taphonomic studies. As well as the early, mysterious miniature stone tools and bone tools found in Sri Lanka, as well as in other places in South Asia, were subjected to limited analysis, and their use and adaptive function remained unclear.
And as was to be expected from the preface, in the new interdisciplinary work, the researchers documented a specialized, complex hunt for semi-wood and tree animals about 45 thousand years ago, in the tropical forests of Sri Lanka.
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Based on nature.com article:
Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~ 45,000 years ago
Oshan Wedage, Noel Amano, Michelle C. Langley, Katerina Douka, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Siran Deraniyagala, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Nimal Perera, Andrea Picin, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia & Patrick Roberts
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1
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