
Vol 1 Ep 12 - Hunter-gatherers
History of the World podcast
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The Origins of Fish Bones
This has halted the somewhat retrospectively naive assumption that neander toles were solely meat s fishermen. And cannibalism was also not beyond them too. Back in 19 88, an important covery was made at the semliki river in the republic of zair, which is now the democratic republic of congo. Bones had been carved in such a way that the edges were now barbed in order to create edges that would lodge themselves on soft material,. Such as fish flesh, if pulled from one direction. The harpoons are referred to as the semlike harpoons, named after the river from which they are believed to havee used.
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