[martin_fierro]

In Before The Mango Salsa Reference!

[johnny7]

It was genocide that killed'em off...

[rightinthemiddle]

Always the victims.

[manic4organic]

Al Gore.

[theDentist]

Well, if it's true that we don't learn from history, and knowing that the liberals consider Conservatives to be "neanderthals", and most of us Conservatives consider the whole "global warming/global cooling" theories to be so much horse pucky, then perhaps once again we're condemning ourselves to freeze....

Naaaah... I don't buy it either.

[lormand]

I thought SUVs killed the Neanderthals?

[Dixie Yooper]

My guess is that they were hunted down by tribes of homo-sapiens and slaughtered to extinction.

[EagleUSA]

The Neaderthals should have signed the Early Accord to suppress GLOBAL COOLING.

[theBuckwheat]

Unless I am mistaken, the word "warming" did not appear in the above news story. Should this seem odd. Why blandly report this discovery without that word? I strongly suspect it is because the climate change it documents proves, once again, that the climate naturally becomes colder from time to time and when it done being colder, it naturally becomes warmer.

Since, on a broad time scale, the earth is still recovering from the last ice age, a time when glaciers covered parts of what is now the United States, it should go without saying that the temperature is slowly rising. The rise is so slow, that some graphs do not show it because even a decades-long time frame is too short.

None of this will deter the BBC, nor anyone else from still claiming that SUVs are going to kill all life on earth, nor from devising schemes totaling trillions of dollars that attempt to limit the so-called greenhouse gases.

[VOA]

The Neanderthals didn't have oil drilling, jet airliners and SUVs.
And now they're extinct.


That's my ripoff of an ancient "M-TV" commercial that went something like
this:
"The Incas had an advanced roadway and communication system.
Elaborate terraces to provide an agricultural bounty even in mountainous
terrain.
But they didn't have M-TV.
And now their culture is extinct."

[blam]

GGG Ping.

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Neanderthals were supposedly adapted for cold weather and if you follow this Journey Of Mankind you'll note that modern humans arrived in the Iberian region as early as 45,000 years ago and apparently survived all the cold that is supposed to have killed off the Neanderthals.
A large part of European DNA has it's origins in the Iberian refuge (along with the Balkan and Ukranian refuges). Then there's a 26,000 year old (Cheddar Man-1) skeleton found in Cheddar Cave in the UK (not to be confused with Cheddar Man-2 who's 9,000 years old).

BTW, Brian Sykes (Seven Daughters Of Eve) said that migrants around Europe were driven back to the refuges during the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM) (18,000-23,000 years ago) but Stephen Oppenheimer says that some weathered the LGM in northern regions of Europe and the UK.

I just don't know?

[blam]

This article I posted yesterday further complicates the issue:

Spread Of Modern Humans Occurred Later Than Previously Thought, Profs Say

"The spread of modern humans out of Africa occurred 40,000 to 50,000 years later than previously thought, according to researchers including one Texas A&M University anthropologist. "

[ASA Vet]

Why were the Homo sapiens Africans, who weren't adapted to the cold, able to move into the area 40,000 years ago, but resident Homo neanderthalensis, who were adapted, couldn't survive that same cold?

[epluribus_2]

>>The cause of this chill may have been cyclical changes in the Earth's position relative to the Sun - so-called Milankovitch cycles.

The Milankovitch Cycle (tm) - Causing Global Climate Change since the beginning of our solar system! Read about it in any good geology or astronomy reference but don't expect to find it in intergovernmental climate change panel publications!

[okie01]

In addition, increased amounts of sand were deposited in the sea and the amount of river water running into the sea also plummeted.

Wouldn't these be mutually exclusive propositions?

The lower the river flow, the less sediment it's capable of carrying.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If they would have sped up the development of SUV's they would have survived.

[The Great RJ]

Obviously Bush's fault. Probably victims of Karl Rove's time and weather controller.

[joylyn]

By the way, are the GEICO cavemen Neanderthals or are they Cro Magnons? They look more like the latter to me.

[happygrl]

Is that a Neanderthal dwelling at Carihuela ?

Just kidding.

But the article gives that impression.

[SunkenCiv]

Something old to chew on...

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]