Get In My Belly!
Posted on 12/21/2010 5:32:19 AM PST by Pharmboy
Deep in a cave in the forests of northern Spain are the remains of a gruesome massacre. The first clues came to light in 1994, when explorers came across a pair of what they thought were human jawbones in the cave, called El Sidrón. At first, the bones were believed to date to the Spanish Civil War. Back then, Republican fighters used the cave as a hide-out. The police discovered more bone fragments in El Sidrón, which they sent to forensic scientists, who determined that the bones did not belong to soldiers, or even to modern humans. They were the remains of Neanderthals who died 50,000 years ago.
Today, El Sidrón is one of the most important sites on Earth for learning about Neanderthals, who thrived across Europe and Asia from about 240,000 to 30,000 years ago. Scientists have found 1,800 more Neanderthal bone fragments in the cave, some of which have yielded snippets of DNA.
But the mystery has lingered on for 16 years. What happened to the El Sidrón victims? In a paper this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Spanish scientists who analyzed the bones and DNA report the gruesome answer. The victims were a dozen members of an extended family, slaughtered by cannibals.
“It’s an amazing find,” said Todd Disotell, an
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Soylent green is neanderthal.
Get In My Belly!
Ok, so scientist(not necessarily these) admit that cannibalism was common among Neanderthals but still wonder why they went extinct. Scientists aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree sometimes are they?
Well, they did exist for hundreds of thousands of years...until our ancestors came on the scene 35,000 years ago (in Europe, that is). It was after that they went bye bye. I think our ancestors ate ‘em up.
I don’t think we ate them up, I think the lack of game caused by our ancestors, who had better weapons, caused them to eat each other into extinction. You will notice the tools found at the site were neanderthal, not Cro Magnon. When Homo Sapiens Sapiens made food scarce in one area they moved on, causing Neanderthals to resort to the only food left to them. They couldn’t compete with Cro Magnon and resorted to eating their own or face starvation.
Now, bring on some cannibal jokes, what ho!
There used to be a group a cannibals where I lived, but we ate them.
Don’t eat the clowns; they taste funny.
Just think: what large animal would be easier to hunt than the Neanders?
Actually there is a school of thought, with some small proof, that Cro Magnon actually was around about 150,000 years ago, and not 30 to 50 as some scientist(the majority)claim.
Cro Magnon is the result of breeding between Neanderthals and early Moderns. We are Neanderthals.
European And Asian Genomes Have Traces Of Neanderthal
Migrating humans interbred with Neanderthals after leaving Africa.
The genomes of most modern humans are 1–4% Neanderthal — a result of interbreeding with the close relatives that went extinct 30,000 years ago, according to work by an international group of researchers.
The family that preys together, stays together.
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