[KrisKrinkle]

The Neanderthal living at the time were probably aware of the reindeer migration patterns and planned their stays in Jonzac to make the most out of the moving herd.

"This sophisticated hunting behavior..."

Doesn't that kind of describe Grizzly bears and Salmon runs? Are Griz sophisticated?

[decimon]

Are Griz sophisticated?

Unbearably so.

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"Doesn't that kind of describe Grizzly bears and Salmon runs? Are Griz sophisticated?"

Go where the food is? Inconceivable!

[muawiyah]

Neanderthals had constructed small handheld bone moon cycle clocks. They appear to have carved holes in granite rocks up on hillsides to provide some sort of base for game surveys.

Just spent a few minutes trying to find the carved holes on the net but couldn't find it ~ will need to think of the words for that one first but it first appeared way back in Scientific American before it turned into a rag.

Again, my thesis is the Neanderthals weren't supermen but they were successful at hunting game, particularly reindeer. This depleted the supply available to other invading people of a different variety, and effectively kept them out of Europe. Europe was short serious quantities of food in the last glacial period.

Then, one day the Neanderthals died out ~ a disease possibly ~ maybe the Mother Ship ~ whatever, once they were gone, the game recovered and the Cro-Magnon people could hunt their way into Europe.