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Neanderthals were able to 'develop their own tools'
BBC ^
| September 24, 2010
| Katia Moskvitch
Posted on 09/27/2010 12:18:16 PM PDT by decimon
Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say.
A new study challenges the view that our close relatives could advance only through contact with Homo sapiens.
The team says climate change was partly responsible for forcing Neanderthals to innovate in order to survive.
The research is set to appear in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory in December.
"Basically, I am rehabilitating Neanderthals," said Julien Riel-Salvatore, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado in Denver, who led the seven-year study.
"They were far more resourceful than we have given them credit for." Vanished culture
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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It is still unknown why Neanderthals went extinct
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:18:17 PM PDT
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:19:02 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:20:25 PM PDT
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CGASMIA68
To: decimon
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:20:48 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: decimon
It is still unknown why Neanderthals went extinct
Extinct? Hell we just evolved, intermarried, and joined SEIU.
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:21:27 PM PDT
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dblshot
(Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
To: decimon
I’ve heard that it was a Neanderthal who first invented the whoopi cushion. True?
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:21:56 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
("There is no such thing as a good tax." Winston Churchill)
To: decimon
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09/27/2010 12:21:56 PM PDT
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frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: decimon
To: decimon; Slings and Arrows; SunkenCiv
Where else were they going to buy them?!!
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:23:06 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: dblshot
There is no difference between a “Neanderthal” and a homo sapiens human.
Thinking themselves wise, they became fools, these “scientists” - assuming evolution, “ape-men”, etc, and then attempting to make the evidence “fit”, then they are surpised when it doesn’t.
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09/27/2010 12:24:08 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: decimon
Developed their own tools, huh? Is that like a branch off of the main development path? The existing GNU tools work perfectly well.
/johnny
To: dblshot
So that’s why Andy Stern and Wade Rathke look familiar! ... Their ancestors are in Smithsonian displays!
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09/27/2010 12:25:16 PM PDT
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MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: t1b8zs
Watch your coin hole, buddy.
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09/27/2010 12:25:19 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: decimon
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09/27/2010 12:27:35 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: a fool in paradise
looks like an old mill stone
To: JoeProBono
If only Michelle Obama had been around then, those poor Neanderthals would have been in shape.
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09/27/2010 12:31:29 PM PDT
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trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: JoeProBono; a fool in paradise; Lazamataz
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09/27/2010 12:35:48 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: decimon
Of course they were. They developed Obama after all.
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(3 great American Thomases: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Thomas Sowell.)
To: decimon
Current scientific standards would preclude us from determining anything about their actual innovative capabilities without first knowing their skin color.
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09/27/2010 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
To: decimon
Neanderthals were able to 'develop their own tools' Some Democrats can too.
ML/NJ
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09/27/2010 1:09:01 PM PDT
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ml/nj
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