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New dating puts cave art in the age of Neanderthals
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| June 15, 2012
| John Noble Wilford
Posted on 06/15/2012 9:26:33 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:30:08 AM PDT
by
FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: FrogMom
Half the “art” in most museums looks like it could have been done by neanderthals already.
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:33:50 AM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: JoeProBono
Hey...We did that in kindergarten....and the teacher ghot paid some big bucks.
Now mom on the other hand got zip and she had to wash our hand prints off the walls besides.
But seriously...How do they know the when of something like this?? And those sure do look like well manicured hands. And I think one of them is wearing a watch.
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:38:12 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: FrogMom
This is a very reasonable tentative conclusion. We are dealing with a very fragmentary fossil record so better dating methods and new fossils change things rather drastically.
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:38:19 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JoeProBono
“It is the dawning of the age of Neanderthals
(chorus) “Neee-ann-der-thals! Nee-ann-der-thalllssss!
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:40:13 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Sacajaweau
And I think one of them is wearing a watch.No, that's a wrist Sun Dial. Didn't you watch the Flintstones?
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:40:46 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: JoeProBono
40,000+ years kids have been putting finger prints on the walls of the home, they still do that.
Nothing has changed.
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:43:13 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
To: JoeProBono
My wife said she dated some Neanderthals, before she met moi, of course.
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:47:53 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Depone serpentem et ab venemo gradere.)
To: svcw
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:50:04 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Picasso appears to have been a Neanderthal..
His work appears to be like a 5 year old finger painting..
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:52:45 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: JoeProBono
“It is the dawning of the age of Neanderthals
(chorus) “Neee-ann-der-thals! Nee-ann-der-thalllssss!
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:57:21 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Hodar
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posted on
06/15/2012 9:57:48 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: svcw
"40,000+ years kids have been putting finger prints on the walls of the home, they still do that."
Now if they had any sense of humor they would have done it to show 8 fingers. ;-)
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:00:07 AM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: Pharmboy
Human-Neanderthal breeding ping.
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:04:18 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: hosepipe
True but that was by choice not lack of talent and ability.
I have to wonder why a person who could paint in any style he chose would want such a bizarre and garish style.
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:05:50 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: thefactor
Yeah...Google alerted me to the story this morning. I’m 2.7% Neanderthal and your sister is 2.5%, so you are likely the latter. Perhaps I can finger paint better than you...if so, we now know why.
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:25:29 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: JoeProBono
Hmmm...proportion of palm to fingers is large. Perhaps they really were made by Neanderthals. Too bad they couldn't defend themselves against Cro Magnon as well as paint cave walls... (if it were them that did it).
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:32:54 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: JoeProBono
apparently they were right-handed.
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posted on
06/15/2012 10:48:02 AM PDT
by
Oratam
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