Posted on 05/09/2015 8:44:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Gideon Hartman of the University of Connecticut and colleagues from an international group of universities and research institutions came to this conclusion by reconstructing the hunting ranges of Neanderthals who occupied the cave at two distinct Ice Age occupational phases separated by about 10,000 years. The first phase occurred during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 (71,000-129,000 years ago), and the second occurred during Marine Isotope Stage 3 (57,000-70,000 years ago). They analyzed the comparison of oxygen, carbon, and strontium isotope samples from the tooth enamel of excavated gazelle remains with modern isotope data from the Amud Cave region.
What they found was that the Neanderthals had restricted their gazelle hunting to the higher elevations west of the cave during the earlier occupation phase, but became more diverse in their hunting ranges during the later occupation phase, with an emphasis on the lower elevations closer to the cave site. The researchers suggest the possibility that drier conditions during the earlier phase (MIS 4) may have forced the gazelle populations to forage in the higher elevations where food sources were more plentiful.
Amud Cave overlooks the Wadi el 'Amud (a dry river gorge) northwest of the Sea of Galilee in present-day Israel. It is best known for its Neanderthal remains, including the 'Amud 1' adult male skeleton, which features a large cranial capacity and other characteristics similar to that of the famous Neanderthal remains discovered in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Also found within the cave was the partial skeleton of an 8-to-10-month-old Neanderthal baby with a maxilla bone of a red deer situated above the baby's pelvis. Archaeologists suggest the possibility that the maxilla had been purposely placed over the baby's remains as a burial rite.
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Hey, if anyone does...
Yeah, 100 percent natural 100 percent of the time.
Ah, thank ya very much..
Climate change? I had NO idea that Neanderthals burned that much coal!
What? How is that possible?
I thought climate change, aka AGW, began just a ‘bit’ more recently???
/s
Gazelles followed the food.
The gazelle hunters followed the Gazelles.
Wow! What a concept! What happened to the
Neanderthals? Did they all go to work for the
EPA or PETA or something?
Wow! I did not know that Neanderthals were driving around in SUV’s and burning lots of fossil fuels, causing climate change.
I knew it, Cavemen caused global warming. We got to find their coal fired power plants and their cars...
Oh my! If only we hdn’t drummed the Neanderthals out of our bloodlines, we would be mare equipped to adapt to the currently feared “climate change”! sarc/off
No, your post is nonsense. Quit trolling in this science topic.
Your obnoxious stupidity has been self-proclaimed.
Yup. Just one manbearpig that we know of and it’s enough to cost us trillions in carbon credits.
We didn’t. Redheads. Seriously.
Thank you for your kind words, they help me get a tougher skin.
70,000 years ago would have been during the last ice age. I’m thinking the climate would have been very different.
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