[Pontiac]

Ping

[Sacajaweau]

It's called "practical use". We did the hook on a stick when we were kids. If we hadn't had hooks, we probably would have dismantled a barbed wire fence.

Watch little kids....they learn without our input.

Or watch bears scoop up fish...They're much more efficient than a dude with a pole.

[VRWCmember]

Just think what they could have accomplished if they had only had http://geico.com to help them save on their insurance.

[Reeses]

That's not a tool, that's a warhead. This is evidence that the Neanderthals acted as spear stoppers for the modern humans.

If future archaeologists someday find sophisticated bomb and missile parts in the mountains of Afghanistan will they think the Taliban had this technology?

[Broker]

Looking for women-clubs. Understand these primitive men were in the habit of clubbing women .

[SunkenCiv]

click those graphics:

New evidence debunks ‘stupid’ Neanderthal myth
Eureka Alert | 25-Aug-2008 | Sarah Hoyle
Posted on 08/25/2008 4:27:06 PM PDT by Soliton
28 posted on 08/26/2008 4:33:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067942/posts?page=28#28

[SunkenCiv]

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[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]

[dsc]

I wonder how much of this leveling of human and neanderthal is motivated by a religious desire to unseat homo sapiens as the crown of Creation.

[colorado tanker]

Naturally it took a while to figure out how to make sophisticated tools. First you have to invent beer and the fridge so you can quaff the suds as you putter in the garage with your tools.

[wildbill]

Tools, schmools, here’s the difference:

Neanderthal chicks were fat; Homo Sapiens had all the foxes. Haven’t you seen Raquel Welch in 1,000,000 B.C and Rae Dawn Chong in that other one? That was true stuff man.

Once you’ve had slim, you ain’t goin’ back, Jim