Posted on 08/31/2018 12:18:13 PM PDT by ETL
Neanderthals were skilled hunters and had learned how to control fire, but they had a less diverse diet than modern humans, living largely on meat from the animals they had successfully pursued. These food sources would naturally become scarce during colder periods, making Neanderthals more vulnerable to rapid environmental change.
In comparison, modern humans had incorporated fish and plants into their diet alongside meat, which supplemented their food intake and potentially enabled their survival. ..."
Dr. Ersek and colleagues examined stalagmites in two caves in the Carpathian Mountains, which revealed more detailed records of climate change in continental Europe than had previously been available.
“Stalagmites grow in thin layers each year and any change in temperature alters their chemical composition,” they explained.
“The layers therefore preserve a natural archive of climate change over many thousands of years.”
The layers of the Carpathian stalagmites showed a series of prolonged extreme cold and excessively dry conditions in Europe between 44,000 and 40,000 years ago.
They highlight a cycle of temperatures gradually cooling, staying very cold for centuries to millennia and then warming again very abruptly.
The team compared these paleoclimate records with archaeological records of Neanderthal artifacts and found a correlation between the cold periods — called stadials — and an absence of Neanderthal tools.
This indicates the Neanderthal population greatly reduced during the cold periods, suggesting that climate change played a role in their decline.
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I warned those Neanderthals to not begin the Industrial Age.
Serves them right for driving SUVs and using coal-fired power plants.
Wait, what?
That wardrobe deserves an academy award.
Ha, I KNEW it. Raquel Welsh is responsible for global warming.
Bill Nye, is that you?
Lol! More like a sabretooth cave bear or some other such prehistoric terror. But I’m sure the possibility of man-made climate change thousands of years later pissed him off.
...the possibility of man-made climate change thousands of years later pissed him off, making him (the cave bear) even more aggressive.
Yet the "progressives" don't want to make room for the next new, improved model....ironic.
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