Trinkaus’ comments are the most important IMHO. :’)
This hypothesis relies on a computer simulation / reconstruction of Neandertals, claims Neandertals all died by a thrown spear (and there are lots of N remains) despite lack of evidence, also postulates that spear chuckin’ was practiced twenty thousand years earlier than first attested (despite no evidence thereto), and ignoring the evidence that Neandertal is ancestral to Europeans. :’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2131718/posts
I still think humans have some neanderthal ancestry... its just that anthropology and genetics are incredibly PC sciences. You find something controversial and your funding disappears.
Chimps toss sticks ~ spear chucking is truly ancient.