Could the first Maltese have been Neanderthals?

The Times of Malta ^ | June 19, 2016 | Ivan Martin

[Fungi]

A problem with the truth, your silliness notwithstanding.

[Paladin2]

If there is skewed orthogonality, you’ve got it.

[Fungi]

I prefer a perpendicular one.

[Paladin2]

http://oro.open.ac.uk/24775/

[Fungi]

Ok. “Meh” and enough, as a few others are wont to reply......

[OldNewYork]

Interesting. They apparently had poor border control.

[JimRed]

Wasn’t Malta connected to the mainland when ice age sea levels were lower?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks To Hell With Poverty.

• Ancient hominids may have been seafarers [2010]
• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners [2010]
• Cretan tools point to 130,000-year-old sea travel [2011]

and just for laughs:

• 'Cyclops' -- Like Remains Found On Crete [2003]

[SunkenCiv]

up to 17 times, but it’s been quite a while.

http://www.shadowservices.com/nature/Maltese/Geomorph/geograp.htm

[lonevoice]

My Neanderthal...

[Ken H]

What a sweetie!

[lonevoice]

What a sweetie!

Thank you, he really is. I haven't told him yet that he's a Neanderthal...I hope he won't be too upset.

[left that other site]

Pardon Me!

Are you calling MOI a NEANDERTHAL?????

Hurrumph!

ML/LTOS

[gleeaikin]

I was reading something about Malta, and it said that thousands of skulls were found in a “temple”, but authorities in the last centuries threw them all out.

During the ice age the Malta islands would have been much larger before the Atlantic rushed through Gibralter and some of the now separate islands would have been strung together.

[Does so]

The first discoverer also introduced the Piltdown Man. This is being treated as a hoax:

http://tinyurl.com/hrqbb7w