Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests

National Geographic News ^ | September 22, 2010 | Ker Than

[bunkerhill7]

Iceland Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests -

They choked to Death on the smoke- Cro-Magnon, on the other hand, decided not to fly anywhere til the skies were clear.

[kbennkc]

I have a boney ridge and I want reparations for what these cro maggots did to my peeps. Turning the volcanoes on us is just how those cracker magnons will do you.

[BuddhaBrown]

“We don’t know...”

But these standards, I don’t know so much I could write a book on the subject.

[njslim]

Thought it was us knuckle dragging tea baggers as proof that Neanderthals still live.....

[BuddhaBrown]

“knuckle dragging tea baggers as proof that Neanderthals still live.....”

Geico volcano insurance. So easy a CaveBagger can do it.

[mamelukesabre]

I’ve been thinking about this my whole life. I’m not like these cracker magnons. I accel at the brutish trades. I can break stuff, burn stuff, kill stuff, and lift heavy stuff. cracker magnons cant do any of that without my help.

[nickcarraway]

Someone find a trial lawyer!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

only after the Neanderthals were gone did Homo sapiens populations explode

It was Cro-Muslim suicide bombers!

[1010RD]

Yep. GIGO.

[Godebert]

"What baffles me the indiginous natives of Australia have been reported to go back 40,000 years.If not. Just how long has this group been living there ? How did they get there ? Where did they come from ?"

5,000 miles is roughly equal to 88,000 football fields. Traveling one field per day, it would take you about 240 years to make the journey from Africa to Australia.

[Northern Yankee]

I thought it was the SUVs? Darn.

[TheOldLady]

So many theories, so little certainty.

Interesting read.

[wildbill]

For Sale: snug cave suitable for small tribe. 4 lg. rms.;stalactites & stalagmites galore for drying pelts, features natural warming and hot tub. Riv. view. Immediate occupancy. Drum Ally Oop, Smokin’ Mountain Estates.

[PIF]

Another interesting tidbit:

Neanderthals sang like sopranos
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1323798.htm

“all the volcanoes apparently erupted around the same time” apparently refers to several European volcanos, but the time period is geological not linear. Exact dates are not known: the eruptions may have been separated by hundreds or thousands of years, and neither is the all important question of eruption duration known.

So take this theory with a huge dose of NaCl.

[gleeaikin]

Mt. Vesuvius has a huge caldera which may represent a huge blowout around 25,000 years ago. Sakura-jima in Japan blew a 15 mile diameter crater around 22,000 years ago. Several such events would have further decimated Neanderthal/human populations, especially if they had also been reduced by events 40,000 years ago. Lots more here to study and undersatnd.

[gleeaikin]

This article has nothing to do with Iceland. Campania is near Naples (I am not sure if it is realted to Vesuvius), and the other eruptions were in the Caucasus mountains.

[PIF]

“...25,000 years ago...” or 23,000 BC -— as far as I know by that date the Neanderthals had been gone for 5000 years or so.

We have a fair knowledge of Holocene volcanic activity, but further back is quite murky, with the exception of some very large eruptions like Mt Toba circa 74,000 BC (which nearly wiped out all of the existing homo sapiens population... estimates range from a few hundred to a few thousand survivors)

[gleeaikin]

Most of the Neanderthals were gone by that time, but I think there have been a find or two in the time frame I mentioned.