tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post8818927973161583928..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Quick HitsAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-1146157052206837842018-03-14T08:55:42.263-06:002018-03-14T08:55:42.263-06:00movie g nutrients -> moving nutrients. (auto-mi...movie g nutrients -> moving nutrients. (auto-mis-correct)<br />-<br />Re. wild potatoes in Utah, I wonder if the name for those tubers was similar to the Ute/Shoshoni word for wild carrots: Yampai, which I link to yam@English: (orange) tuber, nyama@Fulani: eat, and njama@Proto-Bantu: meat, and nyama@Mbuti: animal, all related to the chewing and mashing of food.<br />-<br />An important finding IMO: At Laetoli during A afarensis (Lucy) era, arboreal forest monkeys, not savannah grassland monkeys, dominated the simian niche. Per new article in Journal of Human Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.02.005Get<br /><br /><br />DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-2364165477480968292018-03-13T19:21:15.346-06:002018-03-13T19:21:15.346-06:00"But, this doesn't resolve the question o..."But, this doesn't resolve the question of whether the eruption may have thinned jungles and local hominin populations that could have prevented modern human migration out of India until then." The after-effects would have been more damaging to shade-intolerant grassland & woodland dwellers & rainforest canopy arborealists than to AMHs living on the mottled forest floor, where shade-tolerant vegetation would have remained healthy, food abundant & large leaves used to shingle domiciles getting sufficient sunlight to survive. Similarly, many coastal foods would have returned soon due to currents movie g nutrients. DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.com