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Neanderthals Stitched Too Little Too Late
Discovery ^ | Thursday, January 3, 2008 | Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online

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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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; iceage; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: wildbill

Stitches life.


21 posted on 01/06/2008 8:46:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: AlaskaErik

I’ve just got Alan Axelrod’s “Miracle at Belleau Wood” from the library.


22 posted on 01/06/2008 8:48:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just needling ya, bro.


23 posted on 01/07/2008 7:53:25 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Figures you’d try that in this thread.


24 posted on 01/07/2008 11:05:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fur sinew and bones protect my stones, but flax will never shirt me.


25 posted on 01/08/2008 8:05:56 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

You fabricated that.


26 posted on 01/08/2008 9:28:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: FreedomCalls; All

Gee, and Republican women just love those wild Neanderthal types, all that fanatical energy.


27 posted on 01/08/2008 10:09:10 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: SunkenCiv

“You fabricated that.”

Nah, I just followed the pattern although it did take a few minutes to iron out the wrinkles.


28 posted on 01/08/2008 5:01:55 PM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Weave got to stop this.


29 posted on 01/08/2008 9:58:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re right. I swear before God I’ll button up my lip.


30 posted on 01/09/2008 9:16:57 AM PST by wildbill
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To: SunkenCiv

Sorry, that was just a slip.


31 posted on 01/09/2008 9:19:41 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Spinning wheel get you nowhere. ;’)


32 posted on 01/09/2008 10:09:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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