Posted on 01/21/2012 5:48:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Palaeoanthropologists now know a great deal about these ice-age Europeans who flourished between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago. We know, for example, that Neanderthals shared about 99.84 per cent of their DNA with us, and that we and they evolved separately for several hundred thousand years. We also know Neanderthal brains were a bit larger than ours and were shaped a bit differently. And we know where they lived, what they ate and how they got it.
Skeletal evidence shows that Neanderthal men, women and children led very strenuous lives, preoccupied with hunting large mammals. They often made tactical use of terrain features to gain as much advantage as possible, but administered the coup de grace with thrusting spears. Based on their choice of stone for tools, we know they almost never travelled outside small home territories that were rarely over 1000 square kilometres.
The Neanderthal style of hunting often resulted in injuries, and the victims were often nursed back to health by others. But few would have survived serious lower body injuries, since individuals who could not walk might well have been abandoned. It looks as if Neanderthals had well-developed way-finding and tactical abilities, and empathy for group members, but also that they made pragmatic decisions when necessary.
Looking closely at the choices Neanderthals made when they manufactured and used tools shows that they organised their technical activities much as artisans, such as blacksmiths, organise their production. Like blacksmiths, they relied on "expert" cognition, a form of observational learning and practice acquired through apprenticeship that relies heavily on long-term procedural memory.
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Triangles and angles...all related to PI. You have to know PI to calculate angles. If you start starring at the sky and and try to navigate by them, everything turns into angles. If you try to build anything, you run into angles everywhere.
In other words EVERYTHING REQUIRES PI! You aren’t much into math are ya?
There’s dental evidence that Europeans are descended from Neandertal (posted above). Your statement that Neandertals were not human is nonsense.
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Just remember that Pi are round...cornbread are square.
How old do you think the “science” behind a structure like Stonehenge is?
Examples of henges made of wood have been found not only in Europe but along the east coast of the United States. Is this knowledge of the Sun and Moon only 30,000 years at its oldest, or is it very ancient and even known by the Neanderthal people. The reason I bring it up is that henges are based on a circle, and knowing the degrees along the edge of a circle would be important to determing seasons, moon phases, and lunar/solar eclipses.
Ancient peoples may have had sophisticated mathematics because they were observant of how the natural world around them moved, and wasn’t static.
Archaeologists consider any primate that came down out of a tree and walks upright on two legs as human. That takes in a lot of monkeys. Thinking monkeys are human is nonsense to me. Humans to me are Homo Sapien Sapien, the thinking man.
Homo Sapien Sapien? Never heard of that one.
That is a term for modern man, Humans if you wish.
Good one!
Humans have always preferred living on coasts lines, and if the Neanderthals were similar to us, they lived on coasts as well. Usually the largest human cities are located near salt water.
Did the fish in their diet consist of freshwater fish, salt or both? If saltwater fish were in their diet, then that implies their were Neanderthal settlements on the Ice Age coast lines, which are far out to sea today.
[ The interesting thing not mentioned here is that Black Africans are the only major group in the world that supposedly does not carry Neanderthal genes. This may sound racist, but since Africa is the most backward continent, contrary to the author’s conclusion, perhaps the Neanderthals bestowed a higher intelligence on us. They did have bigger brains. ]
Or the genes from Neaderthals provided “Hybrid Vigor” as in the genes for brain formation and development.
The Asians as they have found out also seems to have Denesovian Genes in them too besides neaderthal genes.
[ It might also be noted that we have no idea whether we are looking at only Neanderthals who lived in the high country as hunter-gathers, but the bulk of Neanderthal could have lived in cities on the coasts - which are now under hundreds of feet of sea water.
Humans have always preferred living on coasts lines, and if the Neanderthals were similar to us, they lived on coasts as well. Usually the largest human cities are located near salt water.
Did the fish in their diet consist of freshwater fish, salt or both? If saltwater fish were in their diet, then that implies their were Neanderthal settlements on the Ice Age coast lines, which are far out to sea today. ]
Maybe the story about entire peoples perishing during the great flood is a reference to the Neadertals?
Why did you include that picture of Mel Brooks in your post?
Maybe the story about entire peoples perishing during the great flood is a reference to the Neadertals?
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Could be, but who knows what that cryptic reference meant?
It is more and more clear that during the period that Ice Age glaciers melted there were huge discharges of water - overnight rises are said to be in the 10s to hundreds of feet worldwide depending on were one lived. Eventually sea level rose some 400-700 feet.
For a comparison scale, if all the ice in the world melted today, sea level would only rise 40 feet at the most.
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