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Warm weather pushed Neanderthals into cannibalism
Cosmos Magazine ^ | March 29, 2019 | Dyani Lewis

Posted on 04/23/2019 11:16:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

In the 1990s, the remains of six Neanderthals -- two adults, two adolescents and two children -- were found in a small cave at Baume Moula-Guercy in the Rhône valley in southern France.

The bones bear many of the hallmarks of cannibalism: cut marks made by stone tools, complete dismemberment of the individuals, and finger bones that look as if they've been gnawed by Neanderthal teeth, rather than by other carnivores.

Remains from other sites in Croatia, Spain and Belgium also show evidence of cannibalism. But in each case, there has been a lack of evidence to answer the question of why the Neanderthals engaged in the practice. Was it for nourishment or cultural ritual?

"Cannibalism is always a contentious thing, because we find it quite revolting," says archaeologist Michelle Langley from Griffith University in Australia, who was not involved in the study...

What they found was evidence of a rapid change in climate that drastically altered the environment of the Rhône Valley.

Before and after the warming, remains from reindeer and woolly mammoths are found, accompanied by smaller mice and lemmings. During the warmer period when the Neanderthals lived, the area was devoid of large mammals, instead inhabited by rodents and tortoises and snakes that migrated up from the Mediterranean.

(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: agriculturallime; agriculture; ancientautopsies; baumemoulaguercy; belgium; cannibalism; carbon; croatia; france; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; isotopes; lime; mammoth; mammoths; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; nitrogen; oxygen; reindeer; rhone; spain; strontium; woollymammoths
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Cut-marks on the skull of an adolescent Neanderthal, a victim of cannibalism, found at Baume Moula-Guercy in France. [Desclaux et al]

Desclaux et al

1 posted on 04/23/2019 11:16:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

They sure are desperate to push their climate change narrative, aren’t they?


2 posted on 04/23/2019 11:17:27 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
And for dessert, lady fingers!

3 posted on 04/23/2019 11:18:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: metmom
Yeah, mammoths managed to pull off living within sight of the Arctic Ocean, but couldn't manage a 2°C rise in temperature. More foolishness from The Agenda-Driven Life.

4 posted on 04/23/2019 11:20:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I guess we better watch out for leftists if it warms up a little. No tellin’ what kind of crazy thoughts they might get if the power goes out or we run out of diesel for the trucks to move food and other products.

Gives new meaning to “eat me” or “bite me”.


5 posted on 04/23/2019 11:22:33 PM PDT by Boomer (One can be an American or a Democrat but never both; not since Zero was elected anyway.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe the Democrats will eat themselves.


6 posted on 04/23/2019 11:27:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Boomer

Now I know what the zombie apocalypse is. Why the hell didn’t the just call it the liberal apocalypse? Remember always double tap.


7 posted on 04/23/2019 11:28:01 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: SunkenCiv

At first I was admiring what I thought was very pretty pottery, then I saw the line describing what I was looking at !!!

After reading about the ‘finger bones that look as if they’ve been gnawed by Neanderthal teeth’ I could do without the toothy grin of the biologist Michael Alpers (..)


8 posted on 04/23/2019 11:30:31 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: metmom

It is possible that the Neanderthals were ‘always’ cannibals, and that when modern man emerged onto the scene into these Neanderthal valleys and realized the hunting practice....they chose to eradicate Neanderthals entirely.


9 posted on 04/23/2019 11:30:59 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SunkenCiv

When it’s warmer, plants grow. Doesn’t sound like the normal result of a warming period to me.


10 posted on 04/23/2019 11:37:53 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Beowulf9
The special in the university cafeteria that day was the big favorite, Spaghetti and Pete's ****s.

11 posted on 04/23/2019 11:41:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: metmom
They sure are desperate to push their climate change narrative, aren’t they?

If they weren't so pathetic, they would be laughable. What idiots.

12 posted on 04/23/2019 11:42:40 PM PDT by Mark17 (What, exactly, was the "only evil continually," that was going on in the days of Noah?)
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KEYWORDS: neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

in local libraries
"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]

13 posted on 04/23/2019 11:43:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Beowulf9

This really is pretty pottery, from the Beaker People (much, much later than the N’s) used in the other topic I posted tonight:

http://cosmos-images1.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/18539/190404-pots-full.jpg


14 posted on 04/23/2019 11:45:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: pepsionice
Since the Neandertals are the forebears of most of us, and cannibalism persists right up to the present day -- generally but not always a grim consequence of some kind of food shortage -- no, that's obviously not what happened.

15 posted on 04/23/2019 11:46:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cannibalism isn’t that old a practice. Read a little about the Japanese in WWII. Fly Boys by James Bradley might bring it to the latter days.


16 posted on 04/23/2019 11:52:27 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Gives a whole new meaning to that age old question, “What’s for dinner?”

One could change it to, “Who’s for dinner!”

Great way to keep those teens in line as well, “If you don’t pick up you’re room, we’ll eat you on Friday” or some such thing.

17 posted on 04/23/2019 11:52:35 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: pepsionice

Yeah, but that doesn’t fit the globull warming, Chicken Little narrative.


18 posted on 04/23/2019 11:54:47 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Idiots. Is it more likely a warrior species, which lived in small family units, nursed its sick, and was highly K-selected began eating its own? Or is it possible as the glaciers retreated, lots of more r-selected sapiens/manboons flooded up from the warmer south, reproduced beyond all measure like a virus using a more r-selected breeding strategy, and began eating Neanderthals when they ran out of food?

As in a lot of cases, Vault-Co was a century or more ahead of these idiots.


19 posted on 04/23/2019 11:57:22 PM PDT by AnonymousConservative (Why did Liberals evolve within our species? www.anonymousconservative.com)
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To: zerosix
"But I don't like baby brother." "Shut up and eat what's put before you."

20 posted on 04/23/2019 11:57:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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