Posted on 08/28/2006 10:33:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Abstract: The Châtelperronian is a Neandertal-associated archeological culture featuring ornaments and decorated bone tools. It is often suggested that such symbolic items do not imply that Neandertals had modern cognition and stand instead for influences received from coeval, nearby early modern humans represented by the Aurignacian culture, whose precocity would be proven by stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates. The Grotte des Fées at Châtelperron (France) is the remaining case of such a potential ChâtelperronianAurignacian contemporaneity, but reanalysis shows that its stratification is poor and unclear, the bone assemblage is carnivore-accumulated, the putative interstratified Aurignacian lens in level B4 is made up for the most part of Châtelperronian material, the upper part of the sequence is entirely disturbed, and the few Aurignacian items in levels B4-5 represent isolated intrusions into otherwise in situ Châtelperronian deposits. As elsewhere in southwestern Europe, this evidence confirms that the Aurignacian postdates the Châtelperronian and that the latters cultural innovations are better explained as the Neandertals independent development of behavioral modernity.
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Thanks. Very interesting about the idione link. My ancestors on the maternal side came from the Salzburg region and my great grandmother, grandmother and mother all suffered from thyroid problems.
"Maybe it's related to living inland. I'm not sure."
My mother's doctor explained to her that thyroid problems were common in people who came to Australia from landlocked countries in Europe. Lack of Iodine.
"Our mitochondrial DNA isn't actually our own DNA, but instead it's DNA of something our ancestors picked up ages ago."
I was not aware of that! If that is so, your theory makes a lot of sense IMO.
Virus (like AIDS) jumping the species barrier from monkey to human for example...
I used to think mtDNA came from the X of the XX/XY pair, as I knew it was inherited from our maternal side.
I try not to use Wiki for a resource too much, but when something isn't politically charged it can be useful...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA
My mitrochondrial DNA has definitely been mutated!
thanks for the link.
LOL That disorder caught my eye too.
YVW ;o)
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