[SunkenCiv]

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Study: Prehistoric People Cared for Kin
by Will Dunham

Studying human remains found in southeastern France dating back 175,000 to 200,000 years ago, anthropologists determined that a toothless and apparently very old member of a group of archaic European people called pre-Neanderthals survived for quite a long time despite needing others to prepare food.

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[Logic n' Reason]

Or....sacrificed them....or in some cases, consumed them.

[calex59]

There is evidence that Neanderthals took care of disabled people from study of the bones of Neanderthals found with broken legs, arms ect, where the break had healed long before the person died. There is also ample evidence that Homo Sapiens in many societies abandoned wounded adults and children born with defects. I am sure there were tribes that didn't abandon them but we know for a fact many not only abandoned their defective children, they sacrificed healthy children and adults to their Gods in order to have a good harvest and great hunts.

Can't escape the fact that primitive tribes were just that, primitive. They were brutal in many ways and did what they thought would insure their survival regardless of what it cost them emotionally.

[wildbill]

No sense in throwing away good meat that might come in handy.