Re: tears
Alex Duncan (aduncan@mail.utexas.edu)
30 Oct 1995 14:18:53 GMT
In article <472bd1$2ic@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> , jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk writes:
>Yes, but these peoples have the advantages of tool use and language etc.,
>which presumably came after nudity.
<sarcasm alert>
Good point. The !Kung routinely wear neolithic points in an effort to
keep the sun off their skins. There's also good evidence that
precolumbian amerindians used metates as knee pads.
<sarcasm alert>
Why do you "presume" that tool use and language came after nudity? The
earliest record for tool use is about 2.5 Myr. Most paleoanthropologists
think that functional nudity probably arose w/ H. erectus, at ~1.8 Myr.
But the point is that we don't really know.
Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu
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