Posted on 03/09/2017 8:23:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows.
Scientists got a sneak peek into the kitchen of three Neanderthals by scraping off the plaque stuck on their teeth and examining the DNA. What they found smashes a common public misconception that the caveman diet was mostly meat. They also found hints that one sickly teen used primitive versions of penicillin and aspirin to help ease his pain.
The dental plaque provides a lifelong record of what went in the Neanderthals' mouths and the bacteria that lived in their guts, said study co-author Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA in Adelaide.
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Ha, I get the plaque cleaned off my teeth regularly. They’ll never know what I’ve been eating!!!
Gee, Neanderthals ate whatever they could find in the area near where they lived. Who’d have thought that??? Amazing, right? Here I thought that they would have had global trade networks to bring in food from all over the world.
/sarcasm
Hmmmmmm...I wonder what the penicillin was for.
“Hehe hehe hehe, he said, uhhhh, “but munch””.
Was Whole Foods on strike or sumtin’ back then?
It almost sounds like they are saying the neanderthals were smarter than we are now. I bet their teachers weren’t a bunch of liberals. They say the Amazonian Rain Forest has all the medicine we would ever need if you know where to look and process it.
If they had been so smart they would have invented Costco and all ate the same things in bulk....AND had TP instead of crinkly leaves....
On “Survivor Man” he says that in most places if something will make you sick or hurt, there is another plant that will make you better growing in the same area.
Where I live we have prickly plant called “Devil’s Club” with big spikes and leaves that will act like stinging nettles. But - in the same forest is a fern with fern with very small leaves and you crush those up and some spit and it takes away the sting.
I was on a job and my knee went bad. I ran out of Advil but an Indian family gave me some balm made out of the Devil’s Club root. They viewed it as a cure-all for any kind of pain. (Didn’t work for a torn miniscus!)
“Ha, I get the plaque cleaned off my teeth regularly. They’ll never know what I’ve been eating!!!”
Do you know that? Are you SURE that NSA isn’t downstream from the dental sink examining the contents during your teeth cleaning?
It might be smart to check with Snowden first, before being so sure of something.
Do they have no editors at NBC?
The word "but" should be "and" -- OR -- "not only" should be inserted before "meant".
One possibility:
“In Belgium, ‘eating like a caveman’ meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep, but in Spain, it meant munching on mushrooms, pine nuts, and moss.”
The main problem with the sentence from the article is that it needs to have two independent clauses joined by a conjunction (”and” or “but”). Instead, it has a compound direct object comprising two complex gerund phrases. One realizes there is something wrong because of the comma which incorrectly separates the two phrases, and one cries out, “Gaaaaaah!” just as one did upon reading Tom the Son’s essay in which he repeatedly plopped prepositions at the ends of his clauses.
“It doesn’t have to be good,” snickered Tom the Son. “It only has to be better than anyone else in the class, including the teacher, could do.” Turkey.
You have the actual skills, when it comes to grammar. I have more of a intuitive feel for it. I couldn’t explain why it seemed wrong, but I knew it made my eyes pinwheel in their sockets. :)
Grammar and tax accounting are similar skills. Both involve categorizing objects and, literally or figuratively, performing computations upon them.
I might have been good at actual maths, too, if I made a real effort. Patrick the Other Son has been watching a lecture series on mathematical problem-solving, and I sometimes surprise him by coming up with a correct answer or at least a correct approach.
Good one.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks and a wish you were here to nickcarraway.
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
I was just at the Natural History Museum in DC an hour ago and I read about gleaning information from teeth. The human evolution exhibit was great, even better walking through it with a Ken Hamm creationist.
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