>> "Here's a point to consider when evaluating AAT. I did not learn this
>> point from some academic overlord with an anti-AAT agenda; I learned
>> it while trying to avoid becoming crocodile food in Africa. When I
>> spent several months with a team at Lake Turkana, Kenya, investigating
>> some of the most important early hominid sites in the world, one of
>> our overriding concerns -- while swimming, bathing, or catching fish
>> with a net -- was to watch out for crocodiles in the shallows. A croc
>> can be on you, crush your legs in its jaws, and drag you under to
>> drown before you have time to screech for help.
Another lip-service reply, lacking any sort of data. Nothing but the
usual, know nothing tripe.
Su Solomon has been there, Smilth has been there, they say different,
but you know better than they?
http://tinyurl.com/y44rnt
"Mind you, its amazing how people can delude themselves into
believing
the impossible! And I would put the: "nah I wont get taken by a croc,
'cause the crocs are small and not there etc. into the class called:
'logical fantasies". This can be believed by the most "intelligent"
people, including Johanson! I was doing a dig at Alia Bay (south of
Koobi Fora) in '87, and each afternoon when we finished for the day,
we
would go down to the shores of Lake Turkana and have a wash. People
("intelligent white people") would throw themselves in the water and
swim and wash, I stayed at the back in knee deep water, praying that
if
there were any crocs around at the time, they would take the stupid
"B's" who were further out!" Su Solomon
Davidson, I. & Solomon, S. (1990) Was OH 27 the victim of a crocodile
attack?. In Solomon, S., Davidson, I. & Watson, D. (eds) Problem
Solving in Taphonomy: Archaeological & Palaeontological Studies from
Europe, Africa & Oceania. Tempus 2. Anthropology Museum, University
of
Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland. 198 - 206.
