How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans

Guardian ^ | 5/17/09 | Robin McKie

[LibWhacker]

A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer

One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.

The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Recipes?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It’s Bush’s fault.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'll have the homo sapiens tongue with the mango curry sauce, please.

[Diogenesis]

Hell’s kitchen.

[lentulusgracchus]

Dude .... these guys are the Neanderthals (although you can't tell it by the sharp jacket the guy on the left is wearing).

Oh, and he ordered his duck with the mango salsa rather than a curry.

Good choice.

Of course, Mr. Grumpy on the right preferred to have a nice, crisp moral-issue salad instead.

[truemiester]

Neandertals lasted longer than their show.

[Jaxter]

Great. Something else for 0bama to apologize for.

[2ndClassCitizen]

It depends who ate them.

Could they have been eaten by other Neanderthals, or maybe some Kenyans ate them.

[2ndClassCitizen]

It depends who ate them.

Could they have been eaten by other Neanderthals, or maybe some Kenyans ate them.

[TC Rider]

LOL, there are things worse than slavery!

[ninonitti]

Neanderthals - the other white meat?

[whershey]

I'm not sure why they consider this news. There was an article on Neanderthals in National Geographic last year. They'd found some bones in Spain that had been hammered open and the bone marrow removed, also the the skulls had been broken open and the brains scraped out, the scientist quoted in that article mentioned that humans had probably dined on them, and from the quote it didn't seem like a new discovery.

[Founding Father]

Ping?

[usmcobra]

Long Pig.

[Cheburashka]

So? Primitive Homo sapiens have eaten other Homo sapiens up to the recent past, if not the present. Why should Homo neanderthalensis be exempt from the cooking pot?

[Vaquero]

Watch out, the 6500 year old earth FReeper, Luddites will give you such a noogie.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Salsa goes with duck, curry with homo sapiens tongue. Better them than us.

[pelican001]

Those commercials should be eradicated.

[6SJ7]

One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.

Sounds like Socialism's end-game.

[FreedomPoster]

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If they found a necklace of Neanderthal teeth,
it would be more believable.

[Paladin2]

Shouldn’t the title be: “Europeans devoured by recent immigrants from Africa”?

[webstersII]

[Yawn]

I love anthropology. In anthropology you can make stuff up all day long and propose all manner of silly ideas, and no one will ever really, really know if you are correct or not.

It’s just like being a weatherman. You can be wrong the majority of the time and still have steady employment.

[Big_Harry]

I read an interesting theory about the demise of the Neanderthal and the author stated that his belief was that the Neanderthal physiology was the result of normal humans living well into the hundreds of years as mentioned in scripture. As the life span shortened, the attributes of the longer life span disappeared.

[BobL]

...at least they were smart enough not to elect Obama.

[SteelTrap]

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!

[Walkingfeather]

With mango curry CHUTNEY! you Philistine.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

With mango curry CHUTNEY! you Philistine.

YOU'RE A TROGLOLYTE!

[ckilmer]

Here's a pretty good prayer song

[SunkenCiv]

And for dessert, lady fingers!

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

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]

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[FrogMom]

Must have been protomooselimbs.

[wardaddy]

had to have been only Caucazoid homo sapiens that ate the sweet little ol neanderthals

but you know....on second thought

look around ya...looks like some neanderthals survived doesn’t it?

i;m gonna go stare in the mirror

[wardaddy]

see 24...lol

[wardaddy]

Those commercials should be eradicated.

why, they are funny as hell

[Drammach]

With mango curry CHUTNEY! you Philistine.
YOU'RE A TROGLOLYTE! Luckily, we don't EAT troglodytes, just Neanderthals.

[Rocky]

Also found was a copy of a Cro-Magnon book: “To Serve Neanderthals”.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Neandertals lasted longer than their show.

They lasted longer than homo sapiens also.

[blam]

"see 24...lol "

Funny, funny.

[MaxMax]

Great, first Humans ate the competition, now we're eating up the planet.

Damn you sail humans! Damn you.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[wolfcreek]

Guess all those references to the *cannabalistic* tendencies of the Aztec/Mayan civilizations should be squealched.

U8it2 <}:~)

[bert]

What? No bone wear? Did they find any bones worn out on the ends where they were boiled away being cooked?

Secondary confirmation is necessary. /S

[chesley]

Because people are basically good? Capitalism makes people do bad thing? Western civilization is bad, and these were innocent tribal people?

That’s why :(

[pabianice]

But... but... the Left insists that early humans were gentle vegetarians living in harmony with the land and their environment. I’m so confused!

[BenLurkin]

[SunkenCiv]

Nope, now they’re *fair game*. :’)

[colorado tanker]

Aw, geez, Mom, we're having Neanderthal again tonight??