Neanderthals

[gaucho1]

I suspected this a long time ago.My fishing and hunting buddy's ancestors had come from Eastern Europe/Russia.He had a very distinctive ridge brow,very short legs,a long trunk and monkey arms [emoji1],yet he had the prettiest wife and he was poor! It made no sense [emoji13]

For some reason........I have a feeling that you knew why.........

Just sayin.............

BTW......did he wear a large astrology medallion?
Another sure sign......

 

[16thVACav]

Have they discovered which atlatl size was favored for bear hunting?

 

[the ringo kid]

You mean there really was a homo erectus? I thought it was just the name of a Kinky Friedman song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goLFaM45sGk

Speaking of Friedman. I voted for him the year he ran for Gov of the State of Texas. I saw himhere in Corpus a few times.He always wore black--and smoked a Stogie and didnt give a dadburn who complained about the Cigar. Man--sometimes I wished he would have made it.

 

[Absalom]

The Sudden Appearance of Cro-Magnon

You may not have been aware of this, please don't take offense, but the snip below is from the back cover of the book from which the text you linked was taken.
Based on that, I see no reason to take any of it seriously.

 

[italiansport]

No I had not seen this before and after reading it, with all due respect , so what.
If nothing about this is true please explain to all of us where the universe came from and who or what created it?
The big bang theory perhaps explains how the universe formed but just what is the source of the singularity the universe formed from?
Going back to Cro-Magnon man I don't for one minute think they "evolved" suddenly 20,000 years ago from the lesser forms of primative man that have been discovered so far that pre-date them. Cro-Magnon are essentially the same as modern humans.
Jim

 

[Kinman]

Please do not forget us Cro-Magnons, it was us that interbred with Neandertal...actually more of a "date rape" kind of thing. It wouldn't have been accepted to bring one of the low-browed girls back home to mom and dad but what happened when we were out in the field...stayed out in the field.
My wife has long held a belief that I am a throwback...
I sent the spit test back to the National Geographic Society and it came back centering my genetic code to a point in the English Channel, just off the coast of Belgium...I thought that was kind of odd but it could be explained by my maternal grandmother's Polish blood, that could have been enough of a pull to bring it off the coast but not enough to drop it much further South.
Just for simplification Cro-Magnons developed the atlatl, added pointed stones to spears and probably invented the bow and arrow, thats how they got rid of their direct competition the Neandertal...they never got out of the spear pointed in a fire or big club maybe with a rock attached to it. They were probably hunted as a sport by Cro-Magnon or for all we know they could have worked together, using Neandertals braun and Cro-Magnon's brain in a cooperative hunt. There is even some speculation that Neandertal didn't have a spoken language but communicated with an almost ESP method, using that other 9/10's of the brain that they haven't quite figured out what we do with it...it could explain how some people have a gift at clairvoyance while others don't. Some of the people that seriously believe in "Bigfoot" think he has that ability to "speak" among themselves without making any noise using that same method of communication of Neandertal and for all anybody knows could be whats left of that poor bugger.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Truly, have you ever been "plussed"?

I suspect he's been a plus one a few times.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Regarding the appearance of Cro Magnons, just catch up on your episodes of Ancient Aliens. As Palmer said in "The Thing", "Chariots of the Gods, man! They practically owned South America"...

See also "Forbidden Archaeology" by Cremo.

In the author's notes accompanying the book "Eaters of the Dead", a novel about an educated Muslim who accompanies a group of Vikings trying to wipe out a band of surviving [cannibalistic] Neanderthals, I believe that the author notes that the Basques are supposedly closely related to the Neanderthals. Given that it's a novel written in the '70s, I'd take that with a grain of salt.

Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame, wasn't it? He had an M.D. and was generally pretty good about science.

Cannibalism made it into 19th Century law books, being the "custom of the sea", whereby to be legal lots had to be drawn to see who was eaten. Inthink in the 1970s there was debate as to whether Neanderthals buired their dead or ate them.

Of course science at the time warned that we were due for a new ice age and that the earth was cooling and said that we would all be eating soylent green about now. Mmmm. Soylent Green.

 

[reddogge]

I thought this was about guys who bubba'd and refinished nice old military rifles.

 

[wbraswell]

Gottafindawoman, gottafindawoman, gottafindawoman.
She was Bertha, Bertha Butt, one of the Butt sisters.
Sockittome, sockittome, sockittome, sockittome.

 

[ChuckS1]

Not sure about the "homo erectus", not that there's anything wrong with it, but I'll stick with women! I don't even like the mental image that the phrase brings to mind.

There's definitely a joke hiding in there, but I don't want to risk getting my hand slapped.