[SunkenCiv]

• Neanderthals walked upright just like the humans of today [2019]
• Neandertals' Main Food Source Was Definitely Meat [2019]
• We should gene-sequence cave paintings to find out more about who made them [2019]
• Extinct human species lived together in Siberian cave, new research shows [2019]
• Following the last Neanderthals: Mammal tracks in Late Pleistocene coastal dunes of Gibraltar [2019]
• New Thoughts on Neanderthals' Diet [2019]
• Do you carry Neanderthal DNA? The shape of your skull may tell [2018]
• Neanderthals and humans were hooking up way more than anyone thought [2018]
• New Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Thorax Suggests Another Breathing Mechanism [2018]
• Earliest hominin migrations into the Arabian Peninsula required no novel adaptations [2018]
• Study reconstructs Neandertal ribcage, offers new clues to ancient human anatomy [2018]
• Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old fossil teeth from the Italian Peninsula [2018]
• Neanderthal healthcare practices crucial to survival [2018]
• Neanderthals Were Human Too [2018]
• This ancient bone belonged to a child of two extinct human species [Denisovan, Neandertal] [2018]
• Cave girl was half Neanderthal, half Denisovan [2018]
• Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean [2018]
• A New Batch of Neanderthal Genome Provides Insights Into Their Complex History [2018]
• Compassion Helped Neanderthals To Survive, Study Reveals [2018]
• additional topics

[EnglishOnly]

Did they use a spin-cast rod or a popeil pocket fisherman?

[4yearlurker]

But they gave it up because beer wasn't invented yet.

[Openurmind]

40,000 year old rope maker. They were more intelligent than we give them credit for and probably used nets.

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/rope-making-tool-germany-04047.html

[antidemoncrat]

“the findings may mean they fished far more frequently than the archaeological record suggests”

Worthless study. Maybe they just spent too much time in the swimming pool.

[SolidRedState]

Just because they had “surfer’s ear” ?

It could mean they were the world’s first surfers.

Or maybe just swimming around for relaxation and fun.

Or maybe their mates made them take cold showers a bit to often.

[gundog]

"...you need to be able to know when the fish are going to be coming up the rivers or going along the coast -- it's a fairly elaborate process,"

Pretty sure there are always fish in the rivers and oceans. Or were Neanderthals snooty fly fishermen that turned their noses up at anything but Atlantic Salmon?

[gnarledmaw]

" "you have to be able to have a certain minimal level of technology, you need to be able to know when the fish are going to be coming up the rivers or going along the coast -- it's a fairly elaborate process,""

Just like the chimps known to fish with clubs? I suspect it was more like my dads sow that used to teach her piglets to fish in the spring creek because even the Mayans didn't have a calendar as advanced as that of the pig.

[gundog]

Based on this book, archaeoligists recreate a Neanderthal fishing lure:

[a fool in paradise]

Bottle-caps and urine traces bear this out

[gnarledmaw]

"...the findings may mean they fished far more frequently than the archaeological record suggests"

When it comes to humans such statements really don't mean a great deal because of potential elements in society and culture. Consider the rules in relatively recent Korean culture regarding pregnant females and gaegogi as an example. Its quite possible, especially if they processed primarily large breeding sized fish from the seasonal runs and had developed smoking as a preservation technology, that there could have been a rule that for some reason women and children couldn't eat the fish. There could be some rule that only men ate the preserved fish while away on the hunt and those back at the tribes base processed and ate the spoils of the last hunt.

No, I haven't read anything suggesting that we know there were rules like this for a fact but the farther we go back, in particular once we get farther into the past beyond Greece, a lot of so called archaeology is really just made up stories. Since its possible and we do have similar examples occurring to this day then something like that cant be ruled out either.

[Larry Lucido]

They probably had a lot of time on their hands.

[DannyTN]

[PGalt]

LOL! “Intellectual picket line”

How low can you go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7pxUgjLz0

[Deplorable American1776]

Did they use a Ranger Bass Boat? Or a Robalo Offshore Boat?

[Seruzawa]

I suspect that the Neanderthals were at least as intelligent as anthropologists.

[Paul R.]

That's because in order to be successful at fishing or hunting aquatic mammals...

You need to be as smart as, say, a bear. That's respectable, I suppose.

I wonder if these researchers have ever watched a vid of "noodling"?

[wildbill]

fishing is not a water sport unless one specifies that the Neanderthals fished by dunking their heads underwater and waited to bite the fish.

[Pelham]