In The Neanderthal Mind

Science News ^ | 9-18-2004 | Bruce Bower

[blam]

We are Neanderthals.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Redheads 'Are Neanderthals'

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

According to the book "Eaters of the dead", they lasted until 900 AD.

[BenLurkin]

[wagglebee]

[blam]

"(Rather calls Saddam "Mister President" and calls President Bush "bush")"

POS Rather!

[luvbach1]

Rather also uses "Your Excellency" in his homage to Saddam.

[Ruddles]

Was that by Michael Cricheton (sp)?

[Sam Cree]

Are those guys trying to say that Cro Magnon people suddenly developed more advanced thinking processes while still remaining the same species?
That doesn't make sense to me.

I always thought that Ernest Borgnine looked kind of neandertal.

Glad to see you back posting, Blam.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Yes and I know now it was written to portray Beowulf.

I was taken in by this book and spent some time trying to find the difference between North Sea depth then and now.
I wanted to find the Thunder Caves.
Not the first or last time I jump to wrong conclusions.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I notice this is similar to how the X-men came about.

[Helms]

THIS WAS EXCELLENT, THANK YOU.

[Helms]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0674644840/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-1124166-0789547#reader-link

[blam]

"Glad to see you back posting, Blam."

Thanks. I haven't completed digging out from the hurricane yet and I spend all day in bed today with the flu. (It's always something, huh.)

[blam]

There's an article over at the Washington Post with this title: Caveful of Clues About Early Humans-Interbreeding With Neanderthals Among Theories Being Explored Washington Post(free reg. req'd.)" dated 9-20-2004, that would be a good suppliment to this article but I can't get logged in. Wanna give it a try?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, I'd be happy to. I'll try that password skipper site again.

Those hurricanes have worked wonders up here. We're finally getting our summer. I was up to my neck in Lake Michigan today, and plan to do that a few more times this week. My dream (I don't dream that big) is to get to swim in October. :') Without freezing I mean...

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[U S Army EOD]

They founded Texas A & M.

[VeritatisSplendor]

I just subscribed to Science News and this article was in the first issue I received. My reaction: "I want my money back, the quality of this magazine has gone way down since I last subscribed 10 years ago." The article is nothing but speculation (I don't have a view on the actual scientific facts of the matter on Neanderthal minds, but I can recognize that there is nothing at all useful in this article).

[SunkenCiv]

That "fedup.com" thing works pretty well. I'll have to try it on Science News -- I found the WP article in a Google search instead. :')

Caveful of Clues About Early Humans:
Interbreeding With Neanderthals
Among Theories Being Explored
by Fredric Heeren
The Washington Post
September 20, 2004

For the seven-member team, the hazards of reaching the site, accessible only by diving through frigid underwater passages, were worth it. Their finds may help answer some of the most hotly debated questions about early humans: Did they make love or war with Neanderthals? Were Neanderthals intellectually inferior to our human ancestors? ...The team included a Portuguese shipwreck diver and archaeologist, a French Neanderthal specialist, a Romanian cave biologist, and the three Romanian adventurers who discovered the human fossils while exploring submerged caves... [T]he ceiling lowered until they were forced, first, to swim on their backs and, finally, don their diving masks and enter a narrow, 80-foot-long underwater passage called "the sump." Underwater visibility was about three feet... The original entrance caved in long ago, sealing off the galleries from the outside... Trinkaus said the Oase fossils show features of modern humans: projecting chin, no brow ridge, a high and rounded brain case. But they also have clear archaic features that place them outside the range of variation for modern humans: a huge face, a large crest of bone behind the ear and enormous teeth that get even larger toward the back... "To find wisdom teeth that big," he said, "you have to go back 500,000 years."

You know what I said? Multiregionalism.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent