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Neanderthals ate shellfish 150,000 years ago: study
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| 09-15-2011
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Posted on 09/15/2011 7:42:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Didn't say whether they had mango salsa or not.......
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:43:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
Duh.
Hunter gatherers would have eaten anything that didn’t eat them first. It don’t get much easier than shellfish.
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:46:18 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a Permenant Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:49:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
Neanderthal cavemen supped on shellfish on the Costa del Sol 150,000 years ago...
And Neanderthals still do. I was there a number of years back and the Spaniards still ate them.
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:53:54 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:54:51 AM PDT
by
Palter
(Even liberals need jobs.)
To: Red Badger
and where are the Neanderthals now you ask?
Consumer Advisory Warning: eating raw or undercooked beef, eggs, poultry, pork, or shellfish may increase your risk for foodbourne illness
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:59:09 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
To: Red Badger
Everybody SING now!
"Welllllll....
the fossils date the rocks
and the rocks date the fossils
and the fossils date the rocks, again!"
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posted on
09/15/2011 7:59:36 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Red Badger
To tell the truth, most scientists working on this type of cra* are nothing but scam artists looking for grant money. They can take all their degrees and put it in a little “cave”.
To: MrB
So it was a red tide that contaminated the shell fish and wiped out the Neanderthals. The red tide was obviously from human pollution so there you go.
To: Red Badger
What is so surprising about this? Why would anyone suppose that Neanderthals would not eat shellfish? Hunting and gathering people will eat just about anything they can find, and mussels are very tasty, and full of good nutrients. They are also easy to prepare.
Directions for preparing mussels (from an old Neanderthal recipe):
1. Find mussels, Bring them back to cave or hut.
2. Have wife built fire.
3. Throw mussels around edges of fire.
4. When mussel shells open up, mussels are cooked enough. Retrieve them, and when they are cool enough, eat them.
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:17:01 AM PDT
by
docbnj
To: NativeSon
But they didn’t know about months with an ‘R’ in them because months hadn’t been invented yet!...............
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:17:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
I thought that radiocarbon dating was only good for 50k years.
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:19:25 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: Lazlo in PA
Boy, those eyes are piercingly evil-looking.
To: mountainlion
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:33:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: docbnj
What is ‘fire’?.................
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:34:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
There, they discovered many charred shellfish — mostly mussel shells — left by Neanderthals. They were able to date the shells by radiocarbon testing to about 150,000 years ago.
I guess this part is wrong then.
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:47:36 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: mountainlion
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:50:48 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
clam bake!
They must have really like them to walk thousands of miles to get them.
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: mountainlion
Partially. Journalists don’t take science classes..........
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posted on
09/15/2011 8:52:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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