Cut-marks on the skull of an adolescent Neanderthal, a victim of cannibalism, found at Baume Moula-Guercy in France. [Desclaux et al]
Posted on 04/23/2019 11:16:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the 1990s, the remains of six Neanderthals -- two adults, two adolescents and two children -- were found in a small cave at Baume Moula-Guercy in the Rhône valley in southern France.
The bones bear many of the hallmarks of cannibalism: cut marks made by stone tools, complete dismemberment of the individuals, and finger bones that look as if they've been gnawed by Neanderthal teeth, rather than by other carnivores.
Remains from other sites in Croatia, Spain and Belgium also show evidence of cannibalism. But in each case, there has been a lack of evidence to answer the question of why the Neanderthals engaged in the practice. Was it for nourishment or cultural ritual?
"Cannibalism is always a contentious thing, because we find it quite revolting," says archaeologist Michelle Langley from Griffith University in Australia, who was not involved in the study...
What they found was evidence of a rapid change in climate that drastically altered the environment of the Rhône Valley.
Before and after the warming, remains from reindeer and woolly mammoths are found, accompanied by smaller mice and lemmings. During the warmer period when the Neanderthals lived, the area was devoid of large mammals, instead inhabited by rodents and tortoises and snakes that migrated up from the Mediterranean.
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Cut-marks on the skull of an adolescent Neanderthal, a victim of cannibalism, found at Baume Moula-Guercy in France. [Desclaux et al]
They sure are desperate to push their climate change narrative, aren’t they?
Yeah, mammoths managed to pull off living within sight of the Arctic Ocean, but couldn't manage a 2°C rise in temperature. More foolishness from The Agenda-Driven Life.
I guess we better watch out for leftists if it warms up a little. No tellin’ what kind of crazy thoughts they might get if the power goes out or we run out of diesel for the trucks to move food and other products.
Gives new meaning to “eat me” or “bite me”.
Maybe the Democrats will eat themselves.
Now I know what the zombie apocalypse is. Why the hell didn’t the just call it the liberal apocalypse? Remember always double tap.
At first I was admiring what I thought was very pretty pottery, then I saw the line describing what I was looking at !!!
After reading about the ‘finger bones that look as if they’ve been gnawed by Neanderthal teeth’ I could do without the toothy grin of the biologist Michael Alpers (..)
It is possible that the Neanderthals were ‘always’ cannibals, and that when modern man emerged onto the scene into these Neanderthal valleys and realized the hunting practice....they chose to eradicate Neanderthals entirely.
When it’s warmer, plants grow. Doesn’t sound like the normal result of a warming period to me.
The special in the university cafeteria that day was the big favorite, Spaghetti and Pete's ****s.
If they weren't so pathetic, they would be laughable. What idiots.
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
This really is pretty pottery, from the Beaker People (much, much later than the N’s) used in the other topic I posted tonight:
http://cosmos-images1.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/18539/190404-pots-full.jpg
Since the Neandertals are the forebears of most of us, and cannibalism persists right up to the present day -- generally but not always a grim consequence of some kind of food shortage -- no, that's obviously not what happened.
Cannibalism isn’t that old a practice. Read a little about the Japanese in WWII. Fly Boys by James Bradley might bring it to the latter days.
One could change it to, “Who’s for dinner!”
Great way to keep those teens in line as well, “If you don’t pick up you’re room, we’ll eat you on Friday” or some such thing.
Yeah, but that doesn’t fit the globull warming, Chicken Little narrative.
Idiots. Is it more likely a warrior species, which lived in small family units, nursed its sick, and was highly K-selected began eating its own? Or is it possible as the glaciers retreated, lots of more r-selected sapiens/manboons flooded up from the warmer south, reproduced beyond all measure like a virus using a more r-selected breeding strategy, and began eating Neanderthals when they ran out of food?
As in a lot of cases, Vault-Co was a century or more ahead of these idiots.
"But I don't like baby brother." "Shut up and eat what's put before you."
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