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Thanks, Blam, for pointing it out here:

In The Neanderthal Mind Science News ^ | 9-18-2004 | Bruce Bower Posted on 09/22/2004 5:32:57 PM PDT by blam http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224142/posts?page=15#15

Sure, I'm slow, but **** how thorough! ;')

Pretty sure this never got posted. Anyone know what happened to fedup.com? That was a handy service.

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Thanks, Blam, for pointing it out here:

In The Neanderthal Mind
Science News ^ | 9-18-2004 | Bruce Bower
Posted on 09/22/2004 5:32:57 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224142/posts?page=15#15

This would help explain the existence of democrats.

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I can picture protohumans having a use for larger canine teeth but what would they need significantly larger molars for?

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All of these are old (probably expired links), but I figured you'd appreciate 'em. :')

One of the PC complaints about archaeology and anthropology is that the stone tools survive basically forever, while things like cloth, skin clothing, weaving, and other "female" technology doesn't. Even human remains are in that category when it gets right down to it. Every site with stone tools probably would have had human fossils, but the remains just rotted away along with the designer fashions the dead person wore. (':

Neanderthal 'face' found in Loire
by Jonathan Amos
Tuesday, 2 December, 2003
A flint object with a striking likeness to a human face may be one of the best examples of art by Neanderthal man ever found, the journal Antiquity reports. The "mask", which is dated to be about 35,000 years old, was recovered on the banks of the Loire in France. It is about 10 cm tall and wide and has a bone splinter rammed through a hole, making the rock look as if it has eyes... "It should finally nail the lie that Neanderthals had no art," Paul Bahn, the British rock art expert, told BBC News Online. "It is an enormously important object." [T]he Roche-Cotard mask should set the record straight on Neanderthals' artistic capabilities. "There are now a great many Neanderthal art objects. They have been found for decades and always they are dismissed as the exception that proves the rule. "This is not just a fortuitous bone shoved into a hole in a rock. Whether the Neanderthal artist saw a rock that looked like a face and modified it, or conceived the thing from the start - who knows? Either way it is pretty sophisticated." And Marquet added: "This object shows that art was not born in the brain of Homo sapiens but much earlier in the brains of predecessors like the Neanderthal man and even, no doubt, in Homo erectus.
Evidence of earliest human burial
by Paul Rincon
Wednesday, 26 March, 2003
BBC online
Scientists claim they have found the oldest evidence of human creativity: a 350,000-year-old pink stone axe. The handaxe, which was discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain, may represent the first funeral rite by human beings. It suggests humans were capable of symbolic thought at a far earlier date than previously thought... The axe is skilfully crafted from quartzite rock, which is abundant in the region... [T]he researchers claim the striking colour is crucial to its importance... The human remains belong to the species Homo heidelbergensis, which dominated Europe around 600,000-200,000 years ago and is thought to have given rise to both the Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens).

"Capable of symbolic thought at a far earlier date than previously thought," sounds familiar somehow... ;'D

Late Neanderthals 'more like us'
by Paul Rincon
Wednesday, 24 December, 2003
The skull comes from ground layers dating to between 42,000 and 38,000 years ago. The researchers also found other fragments of Neanderthal bone from later ground layers in the cave. Analysis of this cranium appears to confirm suggestions from earlier finds at Vindija that the Neanderthals there were evolving a more "gracile" anatomy - less sturdy than classic big-boned Neanderthals. The skull's supraorbital torus - an arching, bony ridge above the eyes - is not as thick and projecting as in other Neanderthal remains. The specimen also has a higher braincase than is typical in Neanderthals... Many researchers believe they did not contribute genes to present-day populations.

"Believe" is the operative word in that sentence.

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