The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
See pictures posted earlier. Fiennes found the going almost impossible, he also had to take all his supplies with him on the ice.
I know of no Auk, nor other species on the ice despite a lifetime of birding, Seals breed on sea ice, but only in spring.
If sea ice produces such wonderful opportunities I fail to understand why so few people exploited it.
I do think the SE Asian continental shelf was dry when HE/MP walked to Java (1,57 mio BP),
The experts and their maps disagree.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
I do think the SE Asian continental shelf was dry when HE/MP walked to Java (1,57 mio BP)
Sunda is dry when world sea levels are lowered due to an ice age. Java, being to the west of Wallace's line, was accessable by foot. That is why discoveries east of Wallace's line are noteworthy (Phillipines 67kya, Hobbit and HE in Flores, etc.) since they needed to raft/boat to get there. See: Source: Lifted from Dons Maps, as I recall
When the O-18/O-16 ratio drops below zero, ice is building up, sea levels are dropping, and hominids are walking. This situation has occurred with regularity on 100,000 year intervals since circa 2.5 million years ago when the Isthmus of Panama formed: Source: Heslop et al (2001)
Of course, all those people were killed when Toba blew up.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Of course, all those people were killed when Toba blew up.
A shitload of hominids bit the dust after Toba, but there were survivors of at least four major species (HS, HN, HE and HF) and apparently Indonesia didn't fare that poorly - see: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/W ... r5.htm#5-4; however, it may have given HS the edge.
Yes, RS, people could still walk to Java, but who would want to do that??
Minimalist wrote:Toba's on Sumatra. It's next to Java.
"Next" is relative, Min: they are a thousand miles apart!
But much more importantly: those islands are on/in different hemispheres and that makes a world of difference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buys_Ballot%27s_law).
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Quite!
And that 'someone' who tore the wrappings off the penguins was HE (there was nobody else around, was there?).
Exactly like Leopard Seals literally tear the wrappings off penguins when they catch 'm, and really turn 'm inside out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wYy-YBkE0 (a skinning process that may take a half hour; seen it happen).
