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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:26:47 -0500, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Robert Kesterson wrote:
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>> Nah. Paleo man would have cracked the bones open and sucked the marrow
>> out. :)
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> So how? I don't know how to crack bones open. Butchers use a saw, not
> paleo. I can imagine it with my six pound hammer and a cold chisel, but
> seems too difficult.
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> Anyone ever done it with stone tools?
I've not done it personally, but I have no doubt I could if I wanted to.
Animals use stones to crack nuts open (chimps do it, and I've seen
squirrels do it), so man using stones to crack bones isn't much of a
stretch. A google search on "paleolithic", "crack", "bones", and "marrow"
returns several articles which mention the practice.
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Robert Kesterson
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