Posted on 05/02/2014 2:05:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
New research has undermined the popular belief that Neanderthals were less intelligent than Homo sapiens, and challenges the widely-held view they were forced into extinction by modern humans.
Many experts have suggested humans’ advanced culture and hunting ability caused Neanderthals to disappear from Europe over 30,000 years ago. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Every time I hear or read the words “scientists say,” my skepticism peaks.
Neither did the Founding Fathers.
They were pretty stupid, huh?
Neanderthals are not a hoax. Numerous fossils have been found at many sites in Europe and the Middle East. The question is whether they are part of our species or a different species of humanity. Their genus is Homo so they are "human" whether or not they belong to Homo sapiens.
"Missing link" "evidence" always turns out to be a fraud and a hoax. And I think the "Neanderthal Man " is supposed to be evidence of the non-existent "missing link", mas non?
The main thing you have to remember, they ain’t here and we are.
Gives the academics something to Chase grants for, but in the end all the Neanderthals that ever lived are dead.
God created man in his image from the getgo, anything else is a hoax. That’s the short answer.
They’re really giving phrenology a run for the money, eh?
"Dude ..."
A bump on the head may be quite continental...
False.
Your response not too informative, kinda vague.
"That is so condescending."
That does not compute. UNC is Carolina blue. Blue, as a pigment, and cavemen do not match.
LOL!
The history of blue pigment is almost certainly the most fascinating story of any pigment. Subject of many academic studies and non-fiction books, a part of art history. Even a key element in one of Christopher Moore's warped books, Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art (combine (a) the death of Vincent van Gogh, (b) ribald fact-based fiction about the French Impressionists, (c) the sacredness, scarcity, and history of blue pigment, (d) evil incarnate, and (e) all the warped comedy Christopher Moore can bring).
No blue at Lascaux.
The Virgin Mary's blue mantle (431?), and 10th and 14th red mantle (not at all well-versed here). IIRC, unfinished Renaissance portraits of the Virgin Mary because of the unavailability and cost of ultramarine blue. Blue in an atom of a nutshell: Blue Through the Centuries: Sacred and Sought After.
I read a lot on the subject (Google: history of blue pigment) about two years ago, including parts of art and pigment history books, but I'm an infant on the subject Blue. It's fascinating.
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