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.
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Lol!
I heard a different theory.
What I heard was that socialism, as a vocal sound, is racial memory from the earliest period when humans and Neanderthal first met.
The humans misunderstood the Neanderthal’s utterances of socialism to mean sharing the meat, when in fact they were telling the humans the practice which provided the meat. It’s source was the old guy that had died a few days before.
My guess is that when humans came to be the largest “animal” around, the Neanderthals may have taken to catching and eating their sapiens neighbors. We sapiens then proceeded to kill Neanderthals whenever possible except for keeping some of their women.
The Easter Bunny lays eggs.
I have several credentials that would Id me as a scientist. Advanced Science degrees in engineering, environment and mechanics, plus several decades of both military and post military research in physical/earth sciences.
So, no, not a scientist as in those who build a body of knowledge out of assumptions based on a philosophical narrative.... Burying the facts and real observable science in the background of “let’s assumes”.
Nope, not that kind of wizard, err, I mean “scientist”.
I’ve heard that the Native Americans engaged in cannibalism, and I know that in Irian Jaya, there were many tribes that were head hunters and practiced cannibalism well into the 20th century.
The book, The Peace Child documents it.
I doubt *globull warming/cooling/climate change* was the factor that *pushed* them into it.
It was their culture.
Vault-Co was a genius computer programmer, and former Military intel guy who ran a blog with a bunch of radical theories which sounded insane when you heard them, but which over time you would see more and more evidence for. Somebody eventually threatened him and made him take his site down, presumably because something on it was not supposed to be known.
Among the things he wrote - Costo and warehouse stores, at least in Australia, are actually elite bunker prep stockpiles, whose product dates are updated by customers coming in and paying to take away the old stock. He went to a local Costco and showed vents from underground facilities under it, snuck inside and showed how it went down two or three levels, and down there was a large truck-sized tunnel heading to a fortified government building nearby. He said when SHTF, the intent was to pull down the steel garage doors over all the windows, seal up the Costco building, and then draw on its supplies as needed through the underground tunnel to fuel the hardened government buildings nearby.
The elites had a plan to create a nuclear war to cull back the population, and if you were smart, you would start building a bunker now.
His big theory was derived from a trove of anthropology texts he got from an estate auction for some super tall, rail thin guy with a head like those melonhead skulls, and bright red hair. He said those texts had truths which were kept from society, mainly that there are three different strains of humans, and they have always been in conflict. He said any attempt by established experts to try and release the information would kill anyone’s career.
According to him, Neanderthals evolved in Glacial Europe, where harshness made them intelligent, loyal, tough, fearless, capable, but slow-reproducing with a very K-selected reproductive strategy.
Sapiens evolved in warm, tropical climates, and may have been a hybrid between pre-human apes and some other animal like pigs (a real theory accepted by some mainstream scientists, if you look it up). They evolved to reproduce rapidly and explosively, and may have even been produced as a slave species by another strain of human.
Then finally, he said, there are the super tall melonheads, which are a sort of highly intelligent, manipulative, parasitic, slave-master species which has long manipulated other humans around them, viewing them as livestock.
He felt the Melonheads were reviled by Neanderthals, and yet the melonheads envied their independence and abilities, and viewed them as a threat to their control. He said the melonheads actually imported the sapiens with them into Europe as the Glaciers receded, and then the Sapiens exploded, eventually depleting food and overwhelming the Neanderthals and cannibalizing the males and stealing the females as mates. Somewhere in there a virus wiped out the pure melonheads, but some melonhead hybrids remained, and retained a lot of melonhead traits.
Today, he feels there is still a bigger battle between the independent freedom-loving Neanderthal admixtures (think Donald Trump) and the manipulative melonheads (think of the Rothschilds, and do an image search on Rothschild melonhead), even if they do not know it. And the pawns of the Roths are still the Sapiens, who are just mindless drones who do whatever they are told and are happy to be led as slaves.
It sounded full on batshit crazy when I first saw it, but I have to admit, over time, I see story over story and laugh at how it fits with exactly what he was saying. Even RH negative blood makes sense with it.
From Rocky horror:
“ Don’t eat the meatloaf! “
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Here is a paper on pig Mycobacterium.
Although not a problem in the US currently, was much more common, and still shows up in less stringent inspected meat locales.
https://vetmed.iastate.edu/vdpam/FSVD/swine/index-diseases/tuberculosis.
There is a bunch more info if you are interested.
Here is a short paper on kosher preps, check out the "kosher inspection"
https://www.growandbehold.com/blog/making-kosher-meat/
It doesn't matter, because it won't pass to humans who eat the meat. TB has nothing to do with the development of that food law.
Just so I understand correctly.
You are saying that people who eat pig that is infected with tuberculosis cannot catch the bacteria and then come down with the generalized infection?
Does that include the three main species?
Literature in veterinary studies indicates that pigs can and do come down with all three M tuberculosis as well as M bovis, besides the usual chicken carried M avium?
The chicken form does not transmit directly as an aerosol, nor by eating pig, but the pig infected with M tuberculosis, actually harboring the bacteeria in it's tissues, when these tissues are consumed by a person, thus ingesting the bacteria, thus exposed, the bacteria does not multiply in the person's nodes and cause disease?
Does your general statement also apply to perhaps contaminating a wound on the person via touching an exposed leaking tubercle and thus transferring a few hundred thousand bacteria directly?
I really would like to see those studies.
The human method of trsnsmission is through breathing infected droplets exhaled by an infected person. Humans have also been infected from cattle via unpasteurized dairy products. Chickens are not pigs, and regardless are not forbidden under the food laws.
To recap, TB was not and never was a factor in the formulation of the food laws regarding never eating pigs. The stricture is, the animal must go on a cloven hoof and chew its cud.
Four critters known to OT Hebrews are specifically excluded for lacking one or the other characteristic (pig, camel, hare, and hyrax; frankly I'd never heard of a hyrax before this *).
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