Posted on 03/18/2012 5:24:33 PM PDT by varmintman
Danny Venderamini's main site.
All Neanderthal images here courtesy of www.themandus.org
This thing starts off with Danny Vendramini figuring out something which should have been figured out 100 years ago i.e.. that (other than for the larger brain area) a Neanderthal skull is a near perfect match for ape profiles and a very bad match for one of ours:
That is consistent with what we know about Neanderthal DNA i.e. that it's no closer to ours than to an ape's. The funny thing is that Vendramini did not tell his artist to produce the world's scariest monster, the basic order was to start with Neanderthal skulls and skeletal bones and try to flesh them out using the assumption that what you had was a bipedal, carniverous ape with an 8" fur coat (like every other ice-age animal) and the big eyes which Neanderthal eye sockets suggest for nocturnal hunting, and possibly a slightly mean look on the thing's face. The fact that what turns up looks as bad as it does to us is probably, as Vendramini suggests, due to past bad experiences with it, sort of like the instinctive human reaction to spiders and snakes:
The 8" fur coat also explains why no Neanderthal needles have ever been found...
Without the fur coat:
Given the recent human population bottleneck, there is no way to believe that any modern human is related to this creature in any way other than for the possible re-use of low-level genetic components by an original designer or designers (the bottleneck says that if any human had any of this guy's genes we all would, not just Caucasians and East Asians), and likewise there is zero way to believe that any modern humans ever interbred with something like that. The image of the Neanderthal in popular culture and science turns out to be rubbish.
This thing was wiped out in some sort of a stone age world war and whoever wiped it out did the world a giant favor. Other than that, Danny Vendramini subscribes to a variant of the Gould/Eldredge flavor of evolutionism, nonetheless the scholarship involved in reconstructing what Neanderthals actually amounted to does not suffer from that.
Venderamini's thesis would be really easy to falsify (i.e. it's not pseudoscience); all you'd have to do would be find the first Neanderthal needle.
I'm assuming that's never gonna happen however since a creature with an 8" fur coat doesn't really need clothing or needles...
Hey. Where’s the fig leaf! :)
But they sung a fine supranno due to the way their vocal cords were placed in relationship to their skulls.
Not that scary - they may have looked mean (in those renderings by some “artist”) but they were likely pussy cats in person.
This guy plays for the Chicago Bears I think.
Re: pictures 3, 5, and 6 - Morlocks as they really should be depicted. Stuff of nightmares.
The Smithsonian in DC had a display with a female in it. As an old sailor we got into a discussion would she be acceptable at 0200 after 10 beers. The answer was yes. I am not surprised that there is some of their DNA in us. Our ancestors were pretty lusty, all in all.
Neanderthal ping...with pics
They control the dhimmocrats.
I wish somebody would figure out once and for all what the real neanderthal looked like.
They had their strengths and weaknesses. Having an 8” fur coat for instance meant they’d have to be more careful of fire than our own ancestors needed to be, i.e. it wouldn’t have been that hard for a Cro Magnon with a torch to light one of them up...
Looks like my high school football coach.
Since the Neanderthal type lived in Europe over a 300,000+ period of time (as compared to our own 35,000 year occupancy) their stuff is a lot older than ours, subject to the wear and tear of FOUR ICE AGES (with innumerable glacial advances) .
Full DNA analysis has been done for only a handful of Neanderthals as yet, but they got the same stuff ~ they are people ~ not apes at all.
BTW, they could also make pigments (for painting something) and could tan hides.
As is typical of so many uninformed folks in this world, what you end up doing is attacking yet another group of red-heads!
Sure, it's a different red-yellow pigment than the more advanced humans have, but it's still red.
Portrayals of Neanderthal as BLACK or DEEP BROWN are necessarily wrong. Portrayals of other humans as WHITE at the same period of time are also wrong.
That isn't the way I read it. Put up or shut up.
Predator, that’s what you’re seeing and sensing. Sets off a primordial response. If there were instances of populations crossing paths, I have a pretty good sense of who wanted to kill and eat whom.
Of course, it’s an artist’s conceptualization and could very well be wildly wrong. It illicits the response intended.
Close. Lions and cheetahs are predators however and they don’t generate anything like the reaction that thing does. There’re probably some really bad racial memories involved with that thing.
A reasonably intelligent predator much like oneself in some regards, but utterly feral in others would be more alarming than a four legged creature that has some semblance of physical beauty. A reasonably intelligent, humanoid predator would likely intertain himself rather than immediately dispatching his prey, unlike the four legged predator.
But, then again, this is an artist’s conceptualiztion, and we are no doubt reacting as intended.
I'm satisfied that Neanderthal had the dexterity and eyesight necessary to do needles. At the same time they, like everybody else in the world, probably made their needles out of wood and bone, both highly perishable
Now, the tough one, find a paleolithic stainless steel needle.
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