Dirk Leder, Raphael Hermann, Matthias Hüls, Gabriele Russo, Philipp Hoelzmann, Ralf Nielbock, Utz Böhner, Jens Lehmann, Michael Meier, Antje Schwalb, Andrea Tröller-Reimer, Tim Koddenberg & Thomas Terberger
Neanderthals:
Way smarter than any ‘Rat.
Nonsense. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is your savior. Have fun with this one.
Back in the 1970’s there were photos from the Mid-East of Neanderthal graves with flowers in them. So this is a symbolic tradition that goes back hundreds of thousands of years.
There is a expression and action called "whittling the time away".
Or it could be where they just hammered on a bone with a stone axe trying to get the marrow. Bone marrow was prized by early humans. Where they come up with with these ritual or symbolic explanations is beyond me.
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Dirk Leder, Raphael Hermann, Matthias Hüls, Gabriele Russo, Philipp Hoelzmann, Ralf Nielbock, Utz Böhner, Jens Lehmann, Michael Meier, Antje Schwalb, Andrea Tröller-Reimer, Tim Koddenberg & Thomas Terberger
It took THAT many people to engrave a bone?
“..at least 51,000-year-old..”
(Dirk Leter, to et al): “Vee mist sound lick vee are quite sheer of the uhproximit time. 50,000 sounds tu much of a guiss, so litz say 51,000.”
It’s a bone with grooves, eh.
Maybe the grooves are guides for some kind of overlapped wrapping. They are carved at the angles you would expect for that use.
“...Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour”
Well, THERE ya go!
They had leftists even way back then.
Notches for each woman they clubbed over the head with it and dragged to their cave?