Thoughtful Hunters (Neanderthals)

Leiden University ^ | 1-2-2006

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[BenLurkin]

" . . . in contrast to previous opinions . . ."

Of course!

[pabianice]

What happens when there is only enough work for 5,000 PhDs and you have 25,000 PhDs...

[Coyoteman]

Good information. Thanks ===> Placemarker <===

[Redcloak]

Unlike most animals, which either sit and wait to ambush prey or use stealth and pursuit techniques, human hunters use a wealth of information to make context-specific decisions, both during the search phase of hunting and after prey is encountered. Specifically, information on ecology, seasonality, current weather, expected animal behaviour and fresh animal signs are all integrated to form multivariate mental modules of encounter probabilities that guide the search and are continually updated as conditions change.”

Either this means that, as a hunter, I'm a very evolved individual, or I'm a Neanderthal; I'm not sure which.

[nightdriver]

Do you think they really know all this stuff?

[miliantnutcase]

How did liberals and vegetarians survive?

[RightWhale]

Neanderthal hunting methods involved hand to hoof combat, and injuries were common. They would wrestle the beast to the ground and beat it with clubs and rocks after running it down or ambushing it. They would summon the women to drag the carcass home and cook it, and then sit around and evaluate their performance such as why so and so was gored, bitten or trampled and how to avoid that next time. The women would also sit around while the beast was cooking and evaluate the performance of the hunters, not necessarily hunting related. There was much joking, some of it not so good-natured, which was the origin of the dramatic form that eventually became formalized as the comedy.

[cpdiii]

(Either this means that, as a hunter, I'm a very evolved individual, or I'm a Neanderthal; I'm not sure which)

I think he is trying to say they were very good at killing things. I guess that makes all of us in the Red States Neanderthals. I can live with that!

[Grut]

Ye gods, the prose! The prose! Would it not be a good thing to ritually slaughter one or two of the worst-writing academics each year?

[cpdiii]

(Ye gods, the prose! The prose! Would it not be a good thing to ritually slaughter one or two of the worst-writing academics each year?)

ONLY one or two! How about 5%!

[siunevada]

For those, like me, who haven't noticed 'hominin' before:

Hominin definition

or BP:

BP definition

[19th LA Inf]

All the deer hunters I know just "sit and wait to ambush prey". The only education needed is for earning enough to pay for the rifles (muzzle loading and centerfire), the compound bow, all-weather heated deer stand and 4-wheeler to ride to the stand and haul out the carcass.

[Coyoteman]

On the BP definition--if archaeologists were thinking ahead they would have defined "present" as 2000, rather than 1950.

The math to convert to and from AD/BC would have been a whole lot easier!

[Archaeologists will date any old thing!]

[Smokin' Joe]

So, in a nutshell, 'primitive' folks just weren't as primitive as they thought...D'oh!

Heck, I'd even go so far as to speculate that as time progressed, Neanderthals developed intellectuals who spent so much time 'talking' about hunting and so little time doing it that they starved...

[Smokin' Joe]

You have to know where to put the stand or none of the rest counts.

[edwin hubble]

20 years ago it was thought that the Neanderthal was incapable of vocalization, due to the shape of its bones in the neck and throat area.

I understand that this thinking has changed somewhat.

Do you know where we stand on the question of Neanderthal speech?

[blam]

"Do you know where we stand on the question of Neanderthal speech?"

Neanderthals Gift Of Speech

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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