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Neanderthal Man Floated Into Europe, Say Spanish Researchers
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 1-16-2006 | Giles Tremlett

Posted on 01/16/2006 3:13:24 PM PST by blam

Neanderthal man floated into Europe, say Spanish researchers

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Monday January 16, 2006

The Guardian (UK)

Spanish investigators believe they may have found proof that neanderthal man reached Europe from Africa not just via the Middle East but by sailing, swimming or floating across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Prehistoric remains of hunter-gatherer communities found at a site known as La Cabililla de Benzú, in the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta, are remarkably similar to those found in southern Spain, investigators said.

Stone tools at the site correspond to the middle palaeolithic period, when neanderthal man emerged, and resemble those found across Spain.

"This could break the paradigm of most investigators, who have refused to believe in any contact in the palaeolithic era between southern Europe and northern Africa," investigator José Ramos explained in the University of Cadiz's research journal. Although the scientists have not yet reached definite conclusions, they say the evidence that neanderthal man mastered some primitive techniques for crossing the sea into Europe from the coast near Ceuta looks promising.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; godsgravesglyphs; navigation; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; spain; straitofgibraltar
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To: AntiGuv

When the Nile flowed east to west and dumped into the Atlantic, the Sahara was far more hospitable.


41 posted on 07/09/2016 12:38:16 PM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: blam
Now, if we say that everyone alive today is a Modern Human, that presents a problem. If we measure the features of all humans alive on the earth today, the range of features easily include Neanderthals

Easily.

Nikolai Valuev

42 posted on 07/09/2016 12:47:45 PM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: Kimmers
And his name was Ted Kennedy

Kennedy, Neanderthal, makes sense.

43 posted on 07/09/2016 1:08:45 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: AntiGuv

I call it ‘presentism’ but no clue what, if anything, its official name is, but it’s often a problem with wackademics.

Everything then was just as we see it today, geography, climate/habitation capability, wise.

You’ll, occasionally, get one of the wacks to acknowledge that the terrain in an area of study was very much different in the distant past, and apply it to that very limited location, but then in big picture, he’ll be right back to what is now is like it was then.


44 posted on 07/09/2016 2:32:13 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

This explains why N. Africans cross over to Europistan today. They have relatives there who are anchor babies and give them rights to immigrate.


45 posted on 07/09/2016 3:03:35 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: wildbill

Royal Neanderthal Cruise Lines.


46 posted on 07/09/2016 3:11:22 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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47 posted on 07/09/2016 3:18:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: SunkenCiv; blam
A very good thread. Thanks for reincarnating it.
Blam doth rock!
48 posted on 07/11/2016 5:09:14 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Tainan

:’)


49 posted on 07/11/2016 8:37:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where are you?


50 posted on 08/01/2016 2:03:40 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Diversity" was never THE goal. Diversity was a byproduct of people coming 'yearning to be free'.)
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To: SunkenCiv

You know... you might consider turning this forum into your own blog, perhaps. I know I would subscribe.


51 posted on 08/05/2016 11:01:05 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (The March to the Abyss is speeding up.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where did you go to?


52 posted on 08/31/2016 6:41:44 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Blam — you are correct about the one species. If Cro-magnon and Neanderthal could produce fertile offspring, then biologically they are the same species.


53 posted on 12/09/2016 1:33:30 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos
"Blam — you are correct about the one species. If Cro-magnon and Neanderthal could produce fertile offspring, then biologically they are the same species."

Thanks.

I wrote that ten years ago and still think it's correct.

54 posted on 12/09/2016 10:00:47 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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