Caveman (Neanderthal) 'May Have Used Language'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-20-2007 | Richard Gray

[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.