Excavation, Prado Vargas Cave, SpainUniversity of Burgos
Posted on 11/21/2024 11:58:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A collection of 15 marine fossils has been found in northern Spain’s Prado Vargas Cave, which was occupied by Neanderthals, according to an IFL Science report. The deposit has been dated to between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago, before modern humans lived in the region, by a team of researchers led by Marta Navazo Ruiz of the University of Burgos. Collecting is understood to reflect abstract thought, indicating the fossils may be evidence of an artistic interest or curiosity about nature among Neanderthals, she explained. The scientists suggest that the fossils may have been gathered by Neanderthal children, just as modern human children often collect seashells and other small objects. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Quaternary.
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Excavation, Prado Vargas Cave, SpainUniversity of Burgos
Neanderthals eh? So they had climate change deniers way back then.
That’s where we got it. They are among our ancestors, and we inherited their natural intelligence. :^)
The popular notion that Neanderthals were less intelligent than the “out of Africa” humans might bear reconsideration, given that Eurasian humans who have Neanderthal genes and have higher IQ than the pure African humans.
Yeah you know what they’ll say now they caused they end of the ice age.
Was Nancy Pelosi one of them?
Neanderthals were a branch from out of Africa
I appreciate that they came up with a possibility other than “religious items”. When I see “religious items” I interpret that as “so you’re saying don’t know what it is?”
Yeah, I always chuckle when it says something had a ritual purpose. Orrrr, maybe it was a flyswatter or a backscratcher. :^)
Bkmk
“ Neanderthals were a branch from out of Africa”
Yes, but a long time in Europe selected for intelligence.
You don’t make it through the winter if you fail to plan.
You hate Americans.
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