To: Coyoteman
Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie
16 posted on
10/28/2007 4:32:59 PM PDT by
brytlea
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To: brytlea
Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie I think you're right.
Early drawings of Neanderthal depicted a slouched-over, crude individual largely because the first Neanderthal found was suffering from severe arthritis. This image got into the popular literature and supported the "cave man" image for a century.
It is only in the last decades that this incorrect portrayal in the popular literature is being corrected.
17 posted on
10/28/2007 4:43:42 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: brytlea
New evidence and better forensic modeling. The ‘ugly little boy’ in my previous post was created by the same techniques used to put a faces on murder victims.
To: brytlea
It is not your imagination. Anthropologists are getting as PC as everyone else and recently there has been a push to show them as more human, though I doubt they really were. I think if one were to encounter a Neanderthal alive today they would run from it screaming, feeling that they had seen a Bigfoot type creature.
19 posted on
10/28/2007 4:51:58 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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