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Neanderthals Clever Enough To Make 'Superglue'
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| 0106-2002
Posted on 01/06/2002 7:24:03 AM PST by blam
Neanderthals clever enough to make 'superglue'
Researchers say Neanderthals had considerable technical and intellectual skills and were as ingenious as modern humans.
German scientists say they have found Neanderthals mixed a kind of superglue to make tools.
It had to be made at a precise temperature and means the race had considerable technical and manual skills in comparison to their dullard image.
Neanderthals are thought to have first appeared around 230,000 to 300,000 years ago.
Professor Chris Stringer, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London, said the discovery is potentially very important: "It would further show that the behaviour gap between us and Neanderthals is narrower than we thought. Some may say there isn't a gap."
Independent reports that the research centres on a new analysis of two 80,000-year-old samples of blackish-brown pitch discovered in a lignite mining pit in the Harz mountains in Germany.
One of the pitch pieces bears the print of a finger and there are also imprints of a flint stone tool and wood, suggesting the pitch had served as a sort of glue to secure a wooden shaft to a flint stone blade.
The research, carried out at the Doerner-Institut in Munich, found the pitch was a birch pitch, which can be only be produced at temperatures of 300-400C.
The team, led by Professor Dietrich Mania of Freidrich-Schiller University in Jena, said: "This implies the Neanderthals did not come across these pitches by accident but must have produced them with intent."
"The pitch finds demonstrate that the Neanderthals must have possessed a high degree of technical and manual abilities, comparable to those of modern Homo sapiens.''
Story filed: 12:45 Sunday 6th January 2002
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birchbarkpitch; birchbarktar; birchresin; birchtar; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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Neanderthals R us.
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posted on
01/06/2002 7:24:03 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
All your Neanderthals are belong to us.
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posted on
01/06/2002 7:27:18 AM PST
by
knarf
To: blam
Neanderthals must have been a sort of master race of their day-- inventors of superior German technology.
Then, they stopped having children any more, and let Muslims come in by the millions from North Africa. There went the neighborhood.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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posted on
01/06/2002 7:29:29 AM PST
by
crystalk
To: blam
If they dig down far enough maybe they'll find the Elf cities.
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: crystalk
Sadly I agree.
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posted on
01/06/2002 7:44:54 AM PST
by
Nov3
To: blam
So, the Dems are smarter than we think, eh?
To: blam
Neanderthals mixed a kind of superglue to make tools. ...Now they just buy it at Wal*Mart.
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posted on
01/06/2002 8:12:16 AM PST
by
randog
To: blam
Now all those cave paintings of Ug-Ug hanging on to a hard-hat glued to an I-beam make sense.
To: blam
Neanderthals- as I understand it- were Homo Sapiens- just a different race. While they had physical traits that are strikingly different from modern humans they are still genetically the same and could mate with modern man today. I am of the belief that Neanderthals were violently wiped out by early Cro Magnum man or in limited cases inbred with them.
To: Burkeman1
There are many people with strong Neanderthal traits.
To: Dialup Llama
Cities no more, they are in runes.
Couldn't resist!
To: Burkeman1
Neanderthals- as I understand it- were Homo Sapiens- just a different race. The part that's always fascinated me is- they had bigger brains.
To: blam
So maybe we could rewrite the title to say "Neanderthals wiped out by glue sniffing addiction"
To: Burkeman1
"I am of the belief that Neanderthals were violently wiped out by early Cro Magnum man or in limited cases inbred with them." I believe they were assimilated and that we are them. (No doubt there were many battles between these groups on the way though.)
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posted on
01/06/2002 9:16:37 AM PST
by
blam
To: Prodigal Son
"The part that's always fascinated me is- they had bigger brains." Do a search on the Allegewi/Tallegewi peoples of America. Some of them were giants with huge heads. (...and presumably larger brains. Were they the Fomorian giants of Irish legend?)
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posted on
01/06/2002 9:21:24 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
bump for later
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posted on
01/06/2002 9:32:47 AM PST
by
d4now
To: PatrioticAmerican
No, they're mixing up glue for sniffing purposes.
To: Burkeman1;NeonKnight
I've had countless women call me a Neanderthal.
To: blam
Obviously Neanderthals had command of modern telecom technology - they're constantly calling me trying to get me to switch long distance providers.
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posted on
01/06/2002 9:50:59 AM PST
by
The Duke
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