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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Dirk Leder, Raphael Hermann, Matthias Hüls, Gabriele Russo, Philipp Hoelzmann, Ralf Nielbock, Utz Böhner, Jens Lehmann, Michael Meier, Antje Schwalb, Andrea Tröller-Reimer, Tim Koddenberg & Thomas Terberger
Neanderthals:
Way smarter than any ‘Rat.
Nonsense. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is your savior. Have fun with this one.
Back in the 1970’s there were photos from the Mid-East of Neanderthal graves with flowers in them. So this is a symbolic tradition that goes back hundreds of thousands of years.
Truth
There is a expression and action called "whittling the time away".
Or it could be where they just hammered on a bone with a stone axe trying to get the marrow. Bone marrow was prized by early humans. Where they come up with with these ritual or symbolic explanations is beyond me.
full author list:
Dirk Leder, Raphael Hermann, Matthias Hüls, Gabriele Russo, Philipp Hoelzmann, Ralf Nielbock, Utz Böhner, Jens Lehmann, Michael Meier, Antje Schwalb, Andrea Tröller-Reimer, Tim Koddenberg & Thomas Terberger
It took THAT many people to engrave a bone?
“..at least 51,000-year-old..”
(Dirk Leter, to et al): “Vee mist sound lick vee are quite sheer of the uhproximit time. 50,000 sounds tu much of a guiss, so litz say 51,000.”
Because they want to get a paper published.
Personally I think Neanderthals were fully human.
From what I can see on the video I just don’t think this find shows that. I need much more convincing those scratches represent abstract symbolism.
Early dice !
“Neanderthals:
Way smarter than any ‘Rat.”
There is a school of thought that Neanderthals may have actually been smarter the Homo Sapiens, but our species may have been healthier, nastier, procreated more, or worked together better.
I’m thinking “nastier”.
there ya go
Why would Leftists be always dissin’ Neanderthals?
Projection?
We are made in GOD’S image and did not “evolve”.
It’s a bone with grooves, eh.
Maybe the grooves are guides for some kind of overlapped wrapping. They are carved at the angles you would expect for that use.
You may be referring to the Shanigar cave used in the fiction series Clan of the Cave Bear books. It was suggested that the flowers left had herbal medical importance, so they were not merely ornamental in that case. For beauty or for utility has different connotations for human thinking processes and symbolic meaning.
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