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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/15/2006 : 12:29:34
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28,000 years isn't all that long ago, geologically speaking. It will be interesting to see if any remains beyond tool kits reminents are found.
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Neanderthals' Last Stand Is Traced
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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: September 13, 2006
An international team of scientists thinks it has solved the ultimate mystery of the Neanderthals: where and when they made their last stand before extinction. It was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, some 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.
Late Survival of Neanderthals at the Southernmost Extreme of Europe (Nature.com)The archaeologists and paleontologists reported yesterday finding several hundred stone tools in Gorham's Cave, on the rugged Mediterranean coast near the Rock of Gibraltar. They are artifacts of the Mousterian technology, usually associated with Neanderthals. So far, no fossil bones of the cave occupants have been uncovered.
The researchers said, however, that the tools established the survival of a population of Neanderthals, a people closely related to human ancestors, in the southernmost point of Western Europe long after they disappeared elsewhere.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 09/15/2006 : 13:24:39 [Permalink]
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Obituaries
Homo Neanderthalensis (350,000 BCE -- 26,000 BCE), beloved son of Irving and Ruth Heidelberg, died today at a retirement home in Gibraltar, southern Iberia. Cause of death is not clear, but there is some suspicion of foul play. Forensics experts are continuing to investigate, and authorities are questioning his second cousin, H. Sapiens, who was found occupying Neanderthal's former home.
Mr. Neanderthal was a robust and athletic professional big-game hunter. He led a long and eventful life, claiming most of Europe and parts of Asia as his home, despite the ice-covered nature of much of the landscape. Though often derided as being slow-witted and primitive, Mr. Neanderthal invented the Mousterian Culture, a novel flint-knapping technology using the Levallois technique, when he was a mere lad of 50,000 years. This invention allowed him to thrive, as he no longer had to use his teeth as often as he had in the past to tear flesh from the bones of his prey. But Mr. Neanderthal did not stop his innovations there. Within a few tens of thousands of years, he had invented the more advanced Châtelperronian Culture knapping technique. (Some critics, notably his second cousin, H. Sapiens, claim that Neanderthal "stole" the Châtelperronian Culture from newcomers.)
Mr. Neanderthal left no known surviving children. His cousin, H. Sapiens, has inherited Mr. Neanderthal's former domains. Sapiens, citing expense and disinterest, has stated that there will be no memorial service.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 09/15/2006 : 14:31:36 [Permalink]
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quote:
HalfMooner:
Mr. Neanderthal left no known surviving children.
So your saying it's time to rule out the French?
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