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Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests
National Geographic News ^
| September 22, 2010
| Ker Than
Posted on 09/24/2010 8:52:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Neanderthals were a hardy species that lived through multiple ice ages and would have been familiar with volcanoes and other natural calamities. But the eruptions 40,000 years ago were unlike anything Neanderthals had faced before, Cleghorn and company say. For one thing, all the volcanoes apparently erupted around the same time. And one of those blasts, the Campanian Ignimbrite, is thought to have been the most powerful eruption in Europe in the last 200,000 years... The researchers acknowledge that there are gaps in the volcanoes theory. For instance, the time line needs to be better defined -- did the volcanic eruptions occur in a period of months, years, or decades? ...It's also unknown exactly how long it took the Neanderthals to die out -- or how long after the eruptions modern humans began settling Europe in force, she said... [adding] modern human populations living in Europe 40,000 years ago were small and isolated, and only after the Neanderthals were gone did Homo sapiens populations explode. "If modern humans were making any forays into European Neanderthal territory prior to this, they were doing it only on the very margins," Cleghorn said. |
Female Neanderthal skull -- Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: archiflegreovolcano; aurignacian; campania; campanianignimbrite; campiflegrei; catastrophism; chatelperronian; chtelperronian; eruption; godsgravesglyphs; greece; italy; mousterian; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; paleolithic; phlegraeanfields; ulluzian; uluzzian; volcanism; volcano; volcanoes
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To: SunkenCiv
Iceland Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests -
They choked to Death on the smoke- Cro-Magnon, on the other hand, decided not to fly anywhere til the skies were clear.
To: SunkenCiv
I have a boney ridge and I want reparations for what these cro maggots did to my peeps. Turning the volcanoes on us is just how those cracker magnons will do you.
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posted on
09/24/2010 9:43:07 PM PDT
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
To: ClearCase_guy
“We don’t know...”
But these standards, I don’t know so much I could write a book on the subject.
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posted on
09/24/2010 10:15:38 PM PDT
by
BuddhaBrown
(Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
To: PistolPaknMama
Thought it was us knuckle dragging tea baggers as proof that Neanderthals still live.....
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posted on
09/24/2010 10:16:00 PM PDT
by
njslim
To: njslim
“knuckle dragging tea baggers as proof that Neanderthals still live.....”
Geico volcano insurance. So easy a CaveBagger can do it.
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posted on
09/24/2010 10:27:37 PM PDT
by
BuddhaBrown
(Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
To: kbennkc
I’ve been thinking about this my whole life. I’m not like these cracker magnons. I accel at the brutish trades. I can break stuff, burn stuff, kill stuff, and lift heavy stuff. cracker magnons cant do any of that without my help.
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posted on
09/24/2010 10:29:00 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Mind-numbed Robot
Someone find a trial lawyer!
To: SunkenCiv
only after the Neanderthals were gone did Homo sapiens populations explode
It was Cro-Muslim suicide bombers!
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posted on
09/24/2010 11:06:04 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
To: Bernard Marx
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09/25/2010 2:56:39 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: mosesdapoet
"What baffles me the indiginous natives of Australia have been reported to go back 40,000 years.If not. Just how long has this group been living there ? How did they get there ? Where did they come from ?"5,000 miles is roughly equal to 88,000 football fields. Traveling one field per day, it would take you about 240 years to make the journey from Africa to Australia.
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posted on
09/25/2010 4:11:02 AM PDT
by
Godebert
To: Perdogg
I thought it was the SUVs? Darn.
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posted on
09/25/2010 4:13:41 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: SunkenCiv
So many theories, so little certainty.
Interesting read.
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09/25/2010 4:46:00 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(Pablo is very wily.)
To: SunkenCiv
For Sale: snug cave suitable for small tribe. 4 lg. rms.;stalactites & stalagmites galore for drying pelts, features natural warming and hot tub. Riv. view. Immediate occupancy. Drum Ally Oop, Smokin’ Mountain Estates.
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posted on
09/25/2010 5:53:05 AM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: SunkenCiv
Another interesting tidbit:
Neanderthals sang like sopranos
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1323798.htm
“all the volcanoes apparently erupted around the same time” apparently refers to several European volcanos, but the time period is geological not linear. Exact dates are not known: the eruptions may have been separated by hundreds or thousands of years, and neither is the all important question of eruption duration known.
So take this theory with a huge dose of NaCl.
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posted on
09/25/2010 4:35:18 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: PIF; SunkenCiv; All
Mt. Vesuvius has a huge caldera which may represent a huge blowout around 25,000 years ago. Sakura-jima in Japan blew a 15 mile diameter crater around 22,000 years ago. Several such events would have further decimated Neanderthal/human populations, especially if they had also been reduced by events 40,000 years ago. Lots more here to study and undersatnd.
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09/25/2010 10:01:17 PM PDT
by
gleeaikin
(question authority)
To: bunkerhill7; SunkenCiv; All
This article has nothing to do with Iceland. Campania is near Naples (I am not sure if it is realted to Vesuvius), and the other eruptions were in the Caucasus mountains.
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09/25/2010 10:10:21 PM PDT
by
gleeaikin
(question authority)
To: gleeaikin
“...25,000 years ago...” or 23,000 BC -— as far as I know by that date the Neanderthals had been gone for 5000 years or so.
We have a fair knowledge of Holocene volcanic activity, but further back is quite murky, with the exception of some very large eruptions like Mt Toba circa 74,000 BC (which nearly wiped out all of the existing homo sapiens population... estimates range from a few hundred to a few thousand survivors)
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:35:48 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: PIF; All
Most of the Neanderthals were gone by that time, but I think there have been a find or two in the time frame I mentioned.
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posted on
09/27/2010 12:14:46 AM PDT
by
gleeaikin
(question authority)
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