Big chill killed off the Neanderthals

New Scientist ^ | 24 January 2004 | Douglas Palmer

[avg_freeper]

Bush doesn't care about Neanderthal people.

[george76]

Or the newly arriving humans called the Gravettians had SUV's as a part of their technology thus stopping the Ice Age in its tracks and warming up the world.

[sticker]

Those of us married to redheads know space aliens are among us.

[mvonfr]

I think I got it.

While people were freezing to death in Europe, Bush was on his ranch in Texas. This explains everything.

[Protagoras]

History gets rewritten often.

Yes, and it is often said that history is written by the victors.

In this case, the victors, a type of human, has decided that the vanquished aren't actually human. Sub human if you will. Kinda sounds familar doesn't it?

[Izzy Dunne]

I foresee a highly paid speaking tour for you.

[george76]

[Lazamataz]

The Neanderthals, however, without either new blood or new technology, found it impossible to survive and died out, probably around 28,000 years ago.

Good thing, too. You think we have racism NOW!

[lilylangtree]

And here I thought the missing link did a number on the neanders.

[MeanWestTexan]

Neaderthals were known to be extremely physically strong and tough --- ligament attachments to bones makes this clear.

That is a picture of a bunch of pansies.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The Gravettians were idiots. We wouldn't let them live near us.

[Protagoras]

"Ice cores recovered from Greenland in the 1970s show that Europe's climate varied hugely during the last ice age, especially in the period between 70,000 and 20,000 years ago. Cold glacial periods were punctuated by warmer times, and the average temperature could rise and fall several degrees within a decade or so."

Global warming,,,,er,,cooling,,,I mean warming,,,,,dammit, where is Al Gore when you need him?

[MeanWestTexan]

"Seems like racism."

Specieism, actually.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Science is so scientific

[Rocket1968]

---"They retreated south until 25,000 years ago when they were reduced to a few refuges, such as southwest France..."

Splains a lot!

[buffyt]

I read today that the climate on Mars is changing....
SUVs?????

[buffyt]

hee hee hee

[Tijeras_Slim]

Gravettians move in and start trying to change everything. I mean, who's business is it if I want to keep a wolly mammoth on my porch?

[MeanWestTexan]

The land bridge to the New World was by way of Russia (where you theoretically could cross on foot even now, if particularly tough, foolhardy, and lucky one winter).

By this theory, those that far north at that time would only be homo sapien sapiens.

Ergo, this would be consistent with the 25,000 year theory.

[Paulus Invictus]

Died out? Then how do we explain the RATs? They are unequal to any attempts to civilize them and make them able to survive in the cold political climate of modern times--it seems to drive them insane. Savage's book, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" fully explains their incurable malady.