Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered

BBC ^ | Jan 9, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

Did Neanderthals wear make-up?

Scientists claim to have the first persuasive evidence that Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago.

The team report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that shells containing pigment residues were Neanderthal make-up containers.

Scientists unearthed the shells at two archaeological sites in the Murcia province of southern Spain.

The team says its find buries "the view of Neanderthals as half-wits" and shows they were capable of symbolic thinking.

Professor Joao Zilhao, the archaeologist from Bristol University in the UK, who led the study, said that he and his team had examined shells that were used as containers to mix and store pigments.

[decimon]

Old glory ping.

[familyop]

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[massmike]

Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered

Helen Thomas photos appearing in ....3....2.....1....

[mewzilla]

Make-up? Why not cave painting? How do they know it was used for body art?

[Vaquero]

thin skinned and vane....no wonder they went extinct...

[BitWielder1]

Real Neanderthals don’t wear makeup!

[mnehring]

I just don't see Neanderthal.

[NavyCanDo]

Please don't spoil the vision I had in my head since my hormone on overdrive adolescent years, - that cave women were fur bikini clad beauties that looked like Rachel Welch or Barbara Bach, or Mlor on the It's About Time TV 1960s series., Makeup not required.

[paulycy]

[Daffynition]

[dangus]

This is her, with messy hair, as a tweenager.

You're telling me she doesn't look like a Neanderthal?

Just joshing you. That IS a Neanderthal.

So, like I was saying... you're telling me she doesn't look like a Neanderthal?

[dangus]

I KNOW that guy.

[dead]

Gabe Kaplan hasn’t aged well.

[decimon]

I KNOW that guy.

"I used to work with that guy." is my usual response to these things.

[freepersup]

“Make-up? Why not cave painting? How do they know it was used for body art?”

Exactly.

[Manic_Episode]

I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

Jack Handy

[JewishRighter]

Mandatory picture of Helen Thomas alert. If there ever was Neanderthal makeup, this is it:

[Vaquero]

I think he taught metal shop in my HS.

[Vaquero]

Beauty is only skin deep.....but ugly is to the bone.....