Posted on 07/19/2021 7:52:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
While there is substantial evidence for art and symbolic behaviour in early Homo sapiens across Africa and Eurasia, similar evidence connected to Neanderthals is sparse and often contested in scientific debates. Each new discovery is thus crucial for our understanding of Neanderthals’ cognitive capacity. Here we report on the discovery of an at least 51,000-year-old engraved giant deer phalanx found at the former cave entrance of Einhornhöhle, northern Germany. The find comes from an apparent Middle Palaeolithic context that is linked to Neanderthals. The engraved bone demonstrates that conceptual imagination, as a prerequisite to compose individual lines into a coherent design, was present in Neanderthals. Therefore, Neanderthal’s awareness of symbolic meaning is very likely. Our findings show that Neanderthals were capable of creating symbolic expressions before H. sapiens arrived in Central Europe.
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“...Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour”
Well, THERE ya go!
They had leftists even way back then.
Were they humans or different enough to be another specie of human?
I guess science is still trying to figure that one out.
We also had numbers in our favor.
Their was a massive volcano in Italy about 40,000 years ago that probably tipped the scales against our cousins.
The nastiness was probably the final straw.
Well they’re Homo Sapien Neanderthalis we’re Homo Sapien Sapien. We interbred. So different species ? Probably not ! These boundaries are very poorly understood.
Or just run faster. Neanderthals had shorter legs. Somebody who is able to run up, toss a spear, and run off would have an advantage.
If there was interbreeding, then they are not a separate species, they are a different race.
Somewhat agree !
Like I said those boundaries are poorly understood.
Notches for each woman they clubbed over the head with it and dragged to their cave?
I am sure there a a multitude of things that are beyond you and few are ritualistic or symbolic.
Took you 5 days to come up with that? You’re getting better.
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