Posted on 04/12/2014 10:34:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...archaeologists at the University of York are challenging the traditional view that Neanderthal childhood was, in Hobbesian terms, difficult, nasty, brutish and short, fraught with continual fear and danger of violent death...
The research team say there is evidence that Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured children for months and often years. A study of child burials, meanwhile, reveals that the young may have been given particular attention when they died, with generally more elaborate graves than older individuals.
Neanderthal groups, believed based on fossil findings to have ranged throughout Europe, Asia Minor and into central Asia, were typically small and relatively isolated, suggesting to the research team important implications for the social and emotional context of childhood. Living in rugged terrain, there would have been little selection pressure on overcoming the tendency to avoid outside groups with a consequent natural emotional focus on close internal connections.
(Excerpt) Read more at bionews-tx.com ...
Just like both your posts.
Yeah, it’s not exactly a leap of faith to come to the researchers’ conclusion, and it’s long overdue. Neandertals have been known to have purposefully buried their dead for decades, and known to have cared for older and/or disabled family members. The long line of foolishness about how they couldn’t talk, or were so fugly they were hunted out, or how they weren’t able to walk as fast, or even (my personal favorite) that they didn’t eat any vegetables (I guess they died of constipation), and all those ridiculous calumnies have been shown one after the other to be fabrications. It’s surprising that such bigotry persists.
I think this "theory" -- conjecture, really -- is much more a statement about today's society. That Neanderthals 'way back when were better at raising kids than are their modern counterparts.
They were better because they allowed Kommon Kore in their cave-schools.
London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1322006/posts
European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles [ and Type O blood ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2156528/posts
Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1917675/posts I like redheads, by the way, and the content above tends to make redheads laugh. ;-)
Neanderthal and Human Matings Get a Date
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2921264/posts
Aw, that’s nothin’ new. ;-)
Of course we are.
Neanderthals were altogether a great, great group of people.
I do too, and it’s in the ancestry in at least one line. :’) Thanks for the reiteration of that nice collection of FR links.
:’D
Evolutionists used to tell a quite different story about neanderthals. And if you didn’t believe it, you were a science-denier.
“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgktcySf_aw
The British twits still claim their master-race model applies, maybe that’s what you’re complaining about?
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