Posted on 01/05/2008 9:27:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Neanderthals probably froze to death in the last ice age because rapid climate change caught them by surprise without the tools needed to make warm clothes, finds new research... By the time some Neanderthals developed sewing tools it was too little too late, said Gilligan... Most of the tools supposed to have given modern humans the edge over Neanderthals were actually more useful for making warm clothes. The important tools developed by modern humans included stone blades, bone points and eventually needles, which could cut and pierce hides to sew them together into multi-layered clothes including underwear, said Gilligan... Modern humans were more vulnerable to the cold than Neanderthals and developed these tools as far back as 90,000 years ago to cope with cooler parts of Africa, before the peak of the ice age... Gilligan says climatic evidence shows in the lead up to the glacial maximum there were unusually sudden and massive swings in global temperatures over short periods of time.
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Stitches life.
I’ve just got Alan Axelrod’s “Miracle at Belleau Wood” from the library.
Just needling ya, bro.
Figures you’d try that in this thread.
Fur sinew and bones protect my stones, but flax will never shirt me.
You fabricated that.
Gee, and Republican women just love those wild Neanderthal types, all that fanatical energy.
“You fabricated that.”
Nah, I just followed the pattern although it did take a few minutes to iron out the wrinkles.
Weave got to stop this.
You’re right. I swear before God I’ll button up my lip.
Sorry, that was just a slip.
Spinning wheel get you nowhere. ;’)
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