Yeah, but they were forced to use foot power
Posted on 09/01/2020 7:48:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The two researchers investigated artefacts from one of the most important Neanderthal sites in Central Europe, the Sesselfelsgrotte cave in Lower Bavaria...
'The technical repertoire used to create Keilmesser is not only direct proof of the advanced planning skills of our extinct relatives, but also a strategical reaction to the restrictions imposed upon them by adverse natural conditions,' says Uthmeier, FAU professor for Early Prehistory and Archaeology of Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers.
What Uthmeier refers to as 'adverse natural conditions' are climate changes after the end of the last interglacial more than 100,000 years ago. Particularly severe cold phases during the following Weichsel glacial period began more than 60,000 years ago and led to a shortage of natural resources. In order to survive, the Neanderthals had to become more mobile than before, and adjust their tools accordingly.
The Neanderthals probably copied the functionality of unifacial backed knives, which are only shaped on one side, and used these as the starting point to develop bi-facially formed Keilmesser shaped on both sides. 'This is indicated in particular by similarities in the cutting edge, which consists in both instances of a flat bottom and a convex top, which was predominantly suited for cutting lengthwise, meaning that it is quite right to refer to the tool as a knife,' says Davide Delpiano from UNIFE.
Both types of knife - the simpler older version and the newer, significantly more complex version - obviously have the same function. The most important difference between the two tools investigated in this instance is the longer lifespan of bi-facial tools. Keilmesser therefore represent a high-tech concept for a long-life, multi-functional tool, which could be used without any additional accessories such as a wooden handle.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com ...
The all moved to Florida and registered as Democrats.
Located Micoquien tools?
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Yeah, but they were forced to use foot power
Unfortunately, researchers are forever limited to examining the poorest Neanderthals, forced by circumstances to live in caves; their wondrous ice cities are melted and gone forever.
“The DNA analyses also showed that the Neanderthals from the Chagyrskaya cave differ significantly in terms of their DNA from a second Altai group found in the Denisova cave. This discovery fits with the observation that the Denisova Neanderthals were apparently not familiar with tools from the Micoquien”
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or thought the Micoquien tools inferior for their purposes
I'm not accusing Uthmeier of doing this, but many of his ilk will say reasonable things like this, change the slide and proclaim that today's climate change is the greatest threat to humanity as if it has never been encountered throughout the history of man.
They moved...............
How do we know its a religious object and not a child’s toy?
You mean even ancient humans could adjust to climate change?!?!.
How can that be!?!?; when modern humans, even with all their massive knowledge and technology, are certain climate change will kill the whole world and humanity?????!!!!! /sarc
/bingo
Their demise arose from their white guilt.
Notice what the human mind did, even with the limited knowledge it had at the time - they adjusted their tools to fit new conditions the climate presented.
And today’s human tool chest, by comparison??? MASSIVE.
The biggest evidence about LIFE on this planet is it is designed, inherently, to adapt. LIFE that any “climate change” could kill - destroying all LIFE - could not have expanded to every extreme of climate on the planet.
Short answer is TOBA. This link has more detail than some I have seen, but there is a lot to find if you Google “toba supervolcano.” http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/toba-rising-super-volcano
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