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Of course, Acheulian clam-shuckers are a thing, as Gareth has proposed.
In this article
https://glasstire.com/2018/02/26/first-sculpture-handaxe-to-figure-stone-at-the-nasher/
they can't figure out what the big shuckers were for:
A “gigantism” display has colossal versions of hand-axes that have no practical purpose, and show no damage from use, such as one hewn from quartzite 800,000 to 300,000 years ago in Algeria. A selection of spheroids — artifacts painstakingly fashioned into orbs — similarly have no evidence of use as tools.
But when you have lunch as big as this:
Spanish researchers ask for help saving giant mussel - Environment - ANSAMed.it
https://www.science.org/content/article/iconic-mediterranean-mussel-faces-imminent-extinction
you need pretty big tools, especially if you dive down and need to prevent them from snapping shut.
Francesca
Of course, Acheulian clam-shuckers are a thing, as Gareth has proposed.
In this article
https://glasstire.com/2018/02/26/first-sculpture-handaxe-to-figure-stone-at-the-nasher/
they can't figure out what the big shuckers were for:
A “gigantism” display has colossal versions of hand-axes that have no practical purpose, and show no damage from use, such as one hewn from quartzite 800,000 to 300,000 years ago in Algeria. A selection of spheroids — artifacts painstakingly fashioned into orbs — similarly have no evidence of use as tools.
But when you have lunch as big as this:
Spanish researchers ask for help saving giant mussel - Environment - ANSAMed.it
https://www.science.org/content/article/iconic-mediterranean-mussel-faces-imminent-extinction
you need pretty big tools, especially if you dive down and need to prevent them from snapping shut.
Francesca
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