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Posted on 05/16/2006 12:51:33 PM PDT by blam
Neandertals take out their small blades
Bruce Bower
From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting
Excavations of Neandertal artifacts at two caves in northern Spain have yielded an unexpected discovery—a trove of thin, double-edged stone blades that researchers usually regard as the work of Stone Age people who lived much later.
In 2005, Federico Bernaldo de Quiros of the University of Léon in Spain and his coworkers unearthed small stone blades, which they called bladelets, lying amid larger, characteristic Neandertal stone implements in a cave called El Castillo. All the finds came from sediment that had previously been dated to 47,000 to 42,000 years ago. Later, the researchers found nearly identical bladelets in soil at another cave, Cueva Morin, which also contains 50,000-year-old Neandertal tools.
At both caves, Neandertals fashioned bladelets in a series of stone-cutting operations similar to those employed by Homo sapiens several thousand years later, Bernaldo de Quiros now proposes.
Similar breaks near the base of many Neandertal bladelets indicate that the implements were attached to handles of some kind, the Spanish investigator says.
The finds suggest that Neandertals were the intellectual equals of H. sapiens, at least in toolmaking, Bernaldo de Quiros says. Neandertals may have been nudged into the bladelet business by northern Spain's poor-quality rock, which is best suited for producing small tools.
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I was working in a retail store 25 years ago in the LA area where I saw the ugliest woman and her son. They were short in stature, massive hands, huge foreheads, giant jaws, hair everywhere. At the time I told myself, surely this is what Neanderthals looked like.
When I see people like that I am convinced that there definitely are Neanderthal genes on our population.
Let's see how this can be said in a respectable and scientific manner.
The "erectus" and the "homo" became dependant on one another and she made the other guy move out first.
Early Basques?
Every time I see that commercial I start thinking about that roast duck and drooling.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
HR holds nose and runs screaming into the street....
I think that puts them ahead of Hillary...from what I've read.
They just better not try to carry them onto an airplane.
I'm just glad the last word in the headline was 'Blades'.
You people are just so incredibly condescending.
They're going to find stuff like this when they excavate my husband's basement workshop!
You just reminded me of my basement "laboratory" back when I was in high school. I was gung-ho chemistry and often spent entire weekends working on projects. Never did really blow anything up, I was mostly working with electrolytes and active metals.
I think that the brain size of Neanderthal, on the average, was larger than that of H. Sapien. Check it out, and consider the consequence.
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At both caves, Neandertals fashioned bladelets in a series of stone-cutting operations similar to those employed by Homo sapiens several thousand years later, Bernaldo de Quiros now proposes.This reminds me of something from last year, regarding the age of some art that had to be Neandertal in origin when a better technique pushed back the date. Gee, I wonder what kind of ad hoc fallback position will be concocted by the "Neanderthals [sic] went extinct because they were inferior" wank-jobs?
I always wondered why the theory that Neanderthals were so very backward and stupid.
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