Posted on 02/19/2015 1:22:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Neanderthal communities divided some of their tasks according to their sex. This is one of the main conclusions reached by a study performed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)... which analyzed 99 incisors and canine teeth of 19 individuals from three different sites (El Sidron, in Asturias - Spain, L'Hortus in France, and Spy in Belgium), reveals that the dental grooves present in the female fossils follow the same pattern, which is different to that found in male individuals.
Analyses show that all Neanderthal individuals, regardless of age, had dental grooves. According to Antonio Rosas, CSIC researcher at the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences...
Other variables analyzed are the tiny spalls of the teeth enamel. Male individuals show a greater number of nicks in the enamel and dentin of the upper parts, while in female individuals these imperfections appear in the lower parts.
It is still unclear which activities corresponded to women and which ones to men. However, the authors of the study note that, as in modern hunter-gatherer societies, women may have been responsible for the preparation of furs and the elaboration of garments. Researchers state that the retouching of the edges of stone tools seems to have been a male task...
Rosas concludes: "The study of Neanderthals has provided numerous discoveries in recent years. We have moved from thinking of them as little evolved beings, to know that they took care of the sick persons, buried their deceased, ate seafood, and even had different physical features than expected: there were redhead individuals, and with light skin and eyes. So far, we thought that the sexual division of labor was typical of sapiens societies, but apparently that's not true".
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Not me. I’m a filet mignon.
Yeah, I understand the reference - but what is she supposed to be doing in that pic?
“It is still unclear”
I can agree to that.
Better than crow-mignon.
Apparently table manners were not invented by Neanderthals.
You people and your newfangled “table” invention.
;’)
Ironically, a lot of the Neandertal research comes out of England. ;’) /rimshot
Shift In Eating Habits Of Early Modern HumansCompared to Neanderthals living in inland Europe up to 100,000 years earlier, who relied primarily on land animals for their protein, early modern humans supplemented their diets with a significant amount of fish and waterfowl. The evidence has been outlined in a paper entitled 'Stable isotope evidence for increasing dietary breadth in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic', which is scheduled to appear in the May 22 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. Dr Michael Richards, of the Department of Archaeological Sciences, at the University of Bradford, said: "This new information highlights the differences in diets between Neanderthals and early modern humans and shows that modern humans were more flexible and adaptable in their dietary choices. This ability to adapt and use a range of resources could perhaps have given us, as a species, a competitive edge over the Neanderthals."
2 May 2001
Neanderthals were people, human, sapiens, our ancestors just as are the cromagnons.
It was THEN, so they didn’t have NOW.
That didn’t happen until the Iron Age.
“Stone my shirt”?
This is not true. Neanderthal women wrestled down Wooly Mammoths with their bare hands, just like the men. Any femlit prof can tell you that.
So if you’re a man and you won’t do housework, then you are a Neanderthal?
“....intercourse is inherently harmful to women because it causes pregnancy...”
Huh?
Not sure they would hire that artist again.
Hey, real Neandertals wouldn’t live indoors. Modern wussies.
Hey, they were a tough bunch of b******s. When they had a tooth fall out, they’d put in on the end of a stick and use it to go kill a mammoth. Tough, I tell ya.
That’s why they had wear marks on their teeth.
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