Rick Baudé Wrote:
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No sign of the assertion that they
> broke the molars for marrow.

... tools or any other dumb reason, so who or what broke them, since there is no reason at all for a rational hominin to do so. But they are there and broke just the same.

That's the problem that at least 4 archaeologists (who have 10 times the experience that group has) have pointed out to them, the media, and laypeople. The Cerutti team has no answer as to why any hominin would be stupid enough to break femur heads and teeth for no reason at all and leave them all laying at the site, which would be a complete waste of energy.

I have a suggestion, read the Nature paper (something besides the abstract),+ supplements, watch videos, so you will understand what the arguments are about?

Until the illiterate Cerutti team can find a pattern of teeth/femurhead breaking anywhere else in the Old or New World, the Cerutti site remains a freak anomaly just as Ruth Gruhn claimed in the lead article:
"The site remains an anomaly in present modeling of the initial peopling of the Americas."