Posted on 06/24/2009 1:57:09 PM PDT by jmcenanly
Sometime between 28,000 and 30,000 years ago, an anatomically modern human in what is now France may have eaten a Neanderthal child and made a necklace out of its teeth, according to a new study that suggests Europe's first humans had a violent relationship with their muscular, big-headed hominid ancestors.
The evidence, which includes teeth and a carefully butchered jawbone from a site called Les Rois in southwestern France, could represent the world's first known biological proof for direct contact between the two human groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
My 30 year old son still has all his baby teeth in a box....he COULD make a necklace....
Scouring the meat off a bone with an edge leaves characteristic marks.
But maybe he just wanted a cool Neanderthal jaw; either way the flesh was stripped off the jaw and the teeth collected to make a necklace.
Finding Neanderthal remains in human feces would definitely settle the matter of if humans ever ate neanderthals. But given how long neanderthals and humans lived with each other, and given how common cannibalism has been in human society; I wouldn't be willing to bet that such a thing NEVER happened, although I am sure early humans could find easier prey to make a meal of than a Neanderthal.
It was . . . Imagination . . . Imagination!
The French will eat anything if you put enough garlic on it.
Uhh, I’m no YEC — but really, this headline is making a large claim that wouldn’t stand up in court. In fact, the article itself gives other possibilities as to what may have happened!
Headline is BS.
They found a jawbone that someone carved... humans would often carve things out of artifacts they found...
As a kid I took home a bone I found in the woods. I didn’t eat whatever it came from. My mother threw it out. Had she not done that, and I were so inclined, I could have carved something cool out of it.
The Human could have found the bone somewhere and not even realized what it was from, then subsequently made a decoration out of it.
My childhood friend’s father had a skull that someone made into a jewelry box in his cellar gun collection. They did not eat the person it came from. Their grandfather bought it at a gun show in the 1920’s. (I always thought it was a very strange thing to have in the cellar, but it looked to be hundreds of years old.)
>>Bratwurst.<<
Bada bing! (LOL)
Modern humans, in contrast, are thought to have fished and hunted smaller, yet more plentiful, prey, like rabbits and birds.
"After environmental crises, modern humans may then have recovered more quickly than Neanderthals, and may have started usurping territories that before the environmental crisis were occupied by Neanderthals," Dusseldorp said.
Basically, don't bring a rhino to a rabbit fight.
Don’t eat it rare, though...you’ll get mad neanderthal disease.
Humans taste like pork actually ant the white meat dark meat is laid out like a chicken.
Not shocking. Cannibalism is still practiced in parts of Africa. Many primitive societies ate their enemies. Hell, Jeremiah “Liver Eater” Johnson, the famed mountain man, ate the livers of Indians that he killed!
"Stop it, stop it. Stop this cannibalism. Let's have a thread about clean, decent human beings."
You are not invited to my house.
And, like most dysfunctional families, they never got together for holidays.
Barney Fwank would have felt right at home there.
Well clearly the wearer of this necklace is a cannibal... 
But a necklace of neanderthal teeth? nah. It was probably his favorite uncle.
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Thanks bamahead! Somehow I missed your ping and this topic. Note: this is from late June.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer'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] |
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