[decimon]

And they had stiff upper lips.

[decimon]

Tea time ping.

[MindBender26]

They also played canasta, took they Scotch neat, and always said “quite”

[Non-Sequitur]

I believe they founded the Labour Party, didn’t they?

[KarlInOhio]

This week on Masterpiece Theater, the caveman version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought

I'll have the roast duck, with mango salsa.

[sodpoodle]

****It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather than communities on the verge of extinction.***

As history repeats itself - in the 21st Century!

[DManA]

That Hanover clan always looked a little cave mannish to me.

[GreyFriar]

Neanderthals’ not so neanderthal

[TigersEye]

"...The impression they give is of a population in complete command of both landscape and natural raw materials with a flourishing technology - not a people on the edge of extinction.”

And then Uggore convinced them that they were going to destroy the world by chipping it all away. A cap-and-trade tax was imposed on flint. Without spear and arrowheads, with no knives or fire strikers they huddled in their caves, naked, cold and hungry until the end came.

And evil homo-republicanus laughed. The end.

[Liberty Valance]

I'll have the Earl Grey please ...

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

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]

[SunkenCiv]

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[Reeses]

These tools are likely weapons of war. Finding many weapons at the top of a hill is consistent with a battleground. The Neanderthals lost. Hunted animals usually try to run and hide, not run to the top of a hill for a better view. And tools are not typically disposed of at the top of a hill. Occam’s razor points to this being a battleground and the thriving Neanderthals were wiped out in war.

[No Truce With Kings]

I thought this article was about Parliment. Silly me.

[Pharmboy]

Well, maybe, but their health care was bloody awful.

[Dustbunny]

Simply amazing the conclusions that can be drawn from 35,000/42,000 year old tools.

[cake_crumb]

"The impression they give is of a population in complete command of both landscape and natural raw materials with a flourishing technology - not a people on the edge of extinction.”

“The exceptional collection of tools appears to represent the sophisticated hunting kit of Neanderthal populations which were only a few millennia from complete disappearance in the region."

So they WEREN'T teetering on the brink of extinction at the time, after all. What a stupid thing them to say.