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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

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"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]


1 posted on 02/04/2020 10:55:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Neanderthals are now believed to have created 176,000 year-old enigmatic structures made from broken stalactites in a cave in France

do you know what enigmatic structures and which cave?


4 posted on 02/04/2020 11:04:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv
'Nomadic Neanderthals' sounds like a good name for a band.

'Epic Trek of Nomadic Neanderthals' sounds like a good title for the band's tour video.

6 posted on 02/04/2020 11:06:44 AM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: SunkenCiv
I wonder how many years and generations it took to make that migration.

Jared Diamond, after finding evidence, suggests that it took 15,000 years to propagate the Americas after the breach through the iced Bering Strait.

Great post. Thanks

7 posted on 02/04/2020 11:08:23 AM PST by deadrock
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To: SunkenCiv
The tools found in Siberia and the tools found in central Europe are just alike.

But of course. They were all ordered from Amazon.

12 posted on 02/04/2020 11:33:49 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SunkenCiv

Artist never get the recognition they deserve when they are alive.
Some of them have to wait 65k years!


17 posted on 02/04/2020 12:08:20 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Couldn’t they have walked halfway and traded for the tools from someone else who got them from someone who walked the other half?


18 posted on 02/04/2020 12:17:17 PM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why not? The first Americans were able to come across the Bering land bridge and spread all the way to the tip of South America in minus 5000 years before they crossed. :)


22 posted on 02/04/2020 12:50:33 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: SunkenCiv
***Their distinctive stone tools are dead ringers for those found thousands of kilometres away in eastern and central Europe***

Excellent marketing and distribution:
One of the earliest Home Depots.

23 posted on 02/04/2020 1:36:40 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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