[SunkenCiv]

[Pic credit: Allan Henderson]

[ifinnegan]

They’re pretty much making a lot of stuff up.

[Jonty30]

It didn’t seem to work.

[aquila48]

“Compassion Helped Neanderthals To Survive, Study Reveals”

I didn’t know they survived! Where do they live?

[Jack Hammer]

Take two acorns and call me in the morning.

[paint_your_wagon]

If they really cared then they would have been wearing the appropriately colored ribbon. Find the ribbons, and you will have the proof.

[txrefugee]

This reads like another soppy script for a Disney movie.

[wbarmy]

They have an unwarranted image as brutish and uncaring,

Neanderthals have this image because Darwin and Huxley needed a transitional species from ape to man. There was no evidence for what they manufactured, but so what. They needed and the scientific community allowed them to.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Remember Iza in the book “Clan of the Cave Bear” who nurses Alya back to health and then teaches her how to be a healer.

[sargon]

Compassion Helped Neanderthals To Survive, Study Reveals

But, ultimately, Neanderthals didn't survive, did they?

[Wuli]

Archeologists make the most outrageous hyperbolic inferences about the “social values” of long gone peoples from tiny scraps of physical evidence. When they do it should be considered a scientific crime.

[blam]

As always....

We Are Neanderthals

[To Hell With Poverty]

I love these new reconstructions. They make them so much more relatable. And considering we actually are related, I can only assume they're more accurate.

Anyway, Cave Bob Ross there looks downright huggable with that twinkly little smile. I bet he took some red ochre and created a few happy little aurochs in his day. :)