Posted on 03/27/2017 7:55:08 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Mrs. Iceman’s boyfriend?
It's a fascinating question. I suggest that the difference was tool-making ability and the ability to adapt new tools like the throwing spear and the bow for killing game at a distance.
I'll throw in another related factor -- the domestication of dogs. If a band of modern humans enters your Neanderthal clan's area with a pack of hunting dogs it won't be long before 1) all the game is pushed out or taken & 2) your little cave hide-out is discovered and you are killed, captured.
I believe it was Goose that got killed, not the Iceman.
I still say it was the butler, in the library, with the candlestick. He then dragged him up into the Alps and stuck an arrow in his back.
That might be the right guy - look at those tiny hands.
For the same reason that gorillas, which are much stronger than man, do not dominate us. We are smarter.
I read a book about him years ago. He was a big, bad, strong dude!
Fascinating—thanks!
You are right, it seems. Iceman just chickened out.
Maybe, maybe not. The Almas of the Caucasus may well be the few survivors of that race.
..”I read a book about him years ago. He was a big, bad, strong dude!”...
Still is a dangerous “dude” to this nation and people. He’s working with Holder and all the other Mayors and Judges they’ve stacked the system with to support their base voters (illegals)of which without they have no voters.
The idea now is to ‘swamp the courts’...fighting this administration by ‘putting it in a legal choke hold’... Lawyers and Judges are now in charge as the Demorat traitors have the courts stockpiled in the system as well as the Mexican Gov.
Meanwhile sanctuary cities are their bases with Obama based in Washington ...leading the charge..and the clinton machinery still swinging their bats.
I just read the periphery. Must be similar to the story of a 1000 year dead guy in Switzerland.
The riddle of the Snows of Kilimanjaro: “What was the dead leopard looking for at the altitude or 19,500 feet” Ernest Hemingway
I checked the article. OK, Italy, not Switzerland. Read it ten years ago. I remember what I read. here is the link for you to the original story in National Geographic.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/07/iceman/hall-text
My theory is that some change in our genes made us able to organize larger social units than Neanderthals. Instead of being small family oriented bands, our ancestors formed tribes of fifty or more and perhaps hundreds. This lead to institutional aggression, where the motive to kill Neanderthals was not based on competition for resources in one particular area, but rather an "Us against Them" mindset. In small units, Neaderthals couldn't be bothered conducting genocide, while we, with our proto-armies and large tribe xenophobia, were well suited for it.
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