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To: Rebelbase

The article indicates that the Cro-Magnons were snappy dressers, which enabled them to attract the Neanderthal debutantes, who unable to help themselves, caved-in to the suave new guys in town.


33 posted on 12/13/2010 1:26:34 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Lek antilla reka po grille.)
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To: Kenny Bunk; SunkenCiv; blam; All

The article also refers to the Neanderthals being in rags, and the Cro-Magnons using plant fiber for sewing. This is sloppy writing and probably counter-factual. To have rags they would have needed fabric, which since spinning and weaving had not yet been invented is impossible. From what I have read of the American Indians, common sewing materials were sinew and strips of hide, although plant fibers are certainly possible in some areas.


34 posted on 12/14/2010 2:05:23 AM PST by gleeaikin
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