[blam]

The Neanderthal lived in the Northern regions through at least two Ice Ages...I would expect him to have light skin...not dark as portrayed in this picture.

[Savage Beast]

"Neanderthals were in fact capable of speech..."

Great Caesar's Ghost! Would that they were not! The homoSAPIENS (!) are so sick and tired of the Neanderthal blather roaring from the Mainstream Newsmedia, Hollywood, and American universities--all of which are dominated by Neanderthals--that we could SCREAM!

BTW, what on earth makes Richard Gray think Neanderthals are extinct??? They're all around us!

[Condor51]

"Neanderthals may have had their own culture"

No kidding - and now they're all in Berkeley . This guy is their Congressman.

Hey! I just noticed, he kinda looks like this guy....



(Give the top guy a shave and some glasses and they could be brothers.)

[ProCivitas]

'(Neanderthal) 'May Have Used Language'

'Neanderthals may have had their own culture'

Well, thanks ... we try.

[ProCivitas]

And, of course, we always try to speak highly of you.

[ProCivitas]

"Died off just 10,000 yeas after modern man arrived in Europe."

I beg your pardon? Well, that's just rude.

[fish hawk]

Of course they did. How do you think they got their own TV series?

[humblegunner]

The discovery of the gene, called FOXP2, have provided the strongest evidence yet that these heavily built species were capable of speech

Sure.

Speak fine.

Just don't like it.

[Rokurota]

FOXP2 is thought to be crucial to the development of language

I guess we will just have to wait and see if they had the MSNBC2 gene, which causes incessant blathering.

[SunkenCiv]

Victory at last. I always knew they'd, uh, cave...

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Blam. The article still arfs it up though: Scientists who have been trawling through the DNA found in Neanderthal bones have discovered that the now extinct species had a "language gene" that is only found in modern humans. Their controversial findings create the tantalising possibility that Neanderthals were in fact capable of speech much like humans and communicated with each other through their own language. There's that "now extinct" crap. How surprising -- Neanderthal went extinct because they couldn't talk (that's one of many supposed reasons), now it turns out they could talk, but hey, they still went extinct, so it remains a mystery. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. The quarterly FReepathon is underway. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[calex59]

They are just a few years late with this info. They found evidence of Neanderthals speech making abilities years ago.

[socialismisinsidious]

The Neanderthal lived in the Northern regions through at least two Ice Ages

WHAT?! Are you telling me that Neanderthal man is responsible for global warming?! Does Al know? ; )

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Yeah, and they did not all die off either. Today we call them LIBERALS.

[Salamander]

UNGH!

[CHEE]

”As Jerry Lee Lewis said: This left me,,,,,,,“

SPEECHLESS!

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I am a long way from an anthropologist, but I never the less am amused at the ethoccentricity displayed in the article and in the art work. Since they lived through two ice ages and presumably needed Vitamin D, they probably had light skins. The comment slow and dimwitted. A rattlesnake is “dim witted”, but it certainly is not slow.

A cursory examination of the stone tools which they made shows a certain skill level. But more important than that we know that they buried their dead with rituals (graves, painted bodies, and goods placed in the graves). At least this in what I recall from the Smithsonian exhibit in DC.

It has always been my unstudied opinion that they received a raw deal both from H. Sapien and nature (having to face ice ages). A reconstruction of their women indicates that they would be acceptable on a cold, winter’s night.IMHO

[Grimmy]

I know that guy. He’s not dead. He pan handles down on 18th and H steet during the summers.