"You really should do your research."
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:09:49 AM PDT by blam
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side
18:00 13 September 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Rowan Hooper
Neanderthals were thought to have died out as modern humans arrived in Europe. Now, artifacts found in a cave in Gibraltar reveal that the two groups coexisted for millenia before Neanderthals finally dwindled out of existence.
Homo sapiens moved into Europe about 32,000 years ago. But the newly unearthered artefacts shows that a remnant population of Homo neanderthalensis clung on until at least 28,000 years ago, a significant overlap.
Clive Finlayson at the Gibraltar Museum, and colleagues, recovered 240 stone tools and artefacts from sediments dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period – between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago. Mass spectrometry dating puts them between 28,000 and 24,000 years old.
The exciting point is that the tools are all of a type known to palaeontologists as Mousterian: they are flints, cherts and quartzites exclusively associated with Neanderthal manufacture.
“Mousterian technology is firmly associated with Neanderthals across Europe,” says Finlayson, who adds that in the sediment layers where the tools where found there is no hint of intrusion from more recent layers, and no sign of tools made by modern humans.
Genetically distinct
Since modern humans and Neanderthals seem to have overlapped for thousands of years in Europe, the big question is: did they interbreed?
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GGG Ping.
Nothing new here. Republicans face Neanderthals every day in Congress.
Neanderthals haven't died out. Just look at the middleast.
Neaderthals are still around... they think America caused 9/11 and they vote Democrat.
They still are in some neighborhoods.
"You really should do your research."
For the most part, they call it "France" today....
could this be because they were/are all...dare I say it...human?
I've known this since the first time I walked through Harvard Square.
Yes, the GOP does face Neanderthals every day.
Note another important fact, though. Ultimately, the Neanderthals became extinct.
But then the Neaderthals all went queer and died out?
"That's so condescending."
Missing link...
Damn Hillary Clinton is B-U-T-T UGLY.
Let's not ignore the fact that these were gated communities
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