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Neanderthals could talk, and it wasn’t the “Ooga Booga” you were expecting
ANCIENT ARCHEOLOGY ^ | 27-03-2021 | chris

Posted on 03/27/2021 4:28:09 AM PDT by PAUL09

Neanderthals could talk, and it wasn’t the “Ooga Booga” you were expecting

Homo sapiens have a preconceived notion of our Neanderthal ancestors as being so primitive that the only way they could communicate was by beating their chests and grunting now that we don’t live in caves and beat things with clubs. Neanderthal skull.

According to scientists who recently discovered some shocking facts about how Neanderthals communicated, this couldn’t be further from the truth. They most certainly had some sort of a language.

The ear structures in Neanderthal skulls showed that they were capable of picking up on the wavelengths associated with human language, even if it wasn’t as advanced as to how we talk now, which is presumably why those “so quick a caveman can do it” car insurance commercials exist.

“The study of audition in fossil hominids is of great interest given its relationship with intraspecific vocal communication…[but] less is known about the hearing abilities of the Neanderthals,” said a multidisciplinary team of researchers who were able to prove that what may seem like as a brute prototype of a human being was smarter than most of us might have thought. Their study was recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Neanderthals or Homo neanderthalensis are our closest predecessors. They are thought to have died out because they could not adapt to chasing smaller, swifter prey with their spears and growing vegetables after the megafauna (such as mammoths and woolly rhinos) they hunted died out.

Some argue that because Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, they are not technically extinct because their bloodline never really died out.

Many of us have a small percentage of Neanderthal blood running through our veins and don’t even know it.


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1 posted on 03/27/2021 4:28:09 AM PDT by PAUL09
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“Some argue that because Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, they are not technically extinct because their bloodline never really died out.”

And this interbreeding gave us liberals and those of us that lean towards forever feuding tribal types of government.


2 posted on 03/27/2021 4:32:04 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: PAUL09

The Neanderthals of today talk, so its no surprise those of the past could as well.


3 posted on 03/27/2021 4:35:41 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: PAUL09

Their voices sounded like Joe Pesci. Although it hadn’t been invented yet, Neanderthal would walk around saying “pasta fagioli” just to crack themselves up.


4 posted on 03/27/2021 4:40:32 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: PAUL09; Fred Nerks

Using the available parameters of surviving archeological skeletal sound production, what did the Neanderthals sound like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI851yJUQQw


5 posted on 03/27/2021 4:43:01 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Sirius Lee

Neanderthal would walk around saying “pasta fagioli” just to crack themselves up.

Or “va fungoul”


6 posted on 03/27/2021 4:45:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Oops...I said that when I was about 8 years old. My father was not pleased.


7 posted on 03/27/2021 4:46:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Candor7

My limbic system knows how to speak neanderthal.


8 posted on 03/27/2021 4:47:30 AM PDT by Track9 (Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
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To: PAUL09

Grant money is forever. This will probably feed 50 “scientists” for the next 100 years.


9 posted on 03/27/2021 4:48:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Creepy Joe Biden is less advanced than a Neanderthal?
“Ooga booga” would be a step up for him.


10 posted on 03/27/2021 4:48:36 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("The evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever." Roads to Moscow by Al Stewart)
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From this faux archeology site:

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11 posted on 03/27/2021 4:50:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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12 posted on 03/27/2021 4:52:00 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Sacajaweau

It cracked up us kids as we learned it from the Italian kids


13 posted on 03/27/2021 4:52:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PAUL09

Actually, being a “caveman” as opposed to being prey or freezing to death selected for intelligence and future orientation.


14 posted on 03/27/2021 4:53:08 AM PDT by Jim Noble (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: PAUL09

We know because we have the tapes, 8-tract of course.


15 posted on 03/27/2021 4:56:54 AM PDT by Petrosius
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Then there was the hand & arm gesture. I thought that was really cool...and occasionally resort to it today..and I’m a 77 year old grandma.


16 posted on 03/27/2021 5:00:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: PAUL09

Isn’t the whole “cave man” and “prehistoric” meme just a phony construct, upon which to hang the whole Godless evolution lash-up? The Bible clearly describes the creation of mankind and everything else, and our journey right up to this moment; albeit, with a huge do-over in the Flood of Noah.


17 posted on 03/27/2021 5:00:46 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Petrosius

Can you say Mummy?? Of course they had a language.


18 posted on 03/27/2021 5:01:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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19 posted on 03/27/2021 5:01:58 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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20 posted on 03/27/2021 5:02:51 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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