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Sidescraper_gal
hunter
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 376
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:20 pm: |     |
All:
Still more news from Paleoanthropologyland and Prehistoric Archaeologyland. This is about the world's oldest beads. Found in Shkhul Cave, Israel, no less!
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060619/full/060619 -10.html
Anne G |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1387
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 7:50 am: | |
Ah come on, they found them in Kebara and transported them over to Skhul - can't have Neanderthals making beads!
Thanks for the head's up Anne.
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Sidescraper_gal
hunter
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 380
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 7:03 pm: | |
Scott:
Nope. Neandertals can't make flutes, either, according to some otherresearchers. They can't make anything! They can only imitate "us", you know!
Anne G |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1390
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 11:29 pm: | |
Well to read some researchers, you would think that they barely walked upright!
I doubt Neanderthals would have had the time to make beads. It is very time-intensive and what with them fighting off the dinosaurs, dragging their women around by the hair and looking for road-kill to eat - they wouldn't have had any time to sing, make beads or learn to talk.
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Cavebear
cave painter
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 2735
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 2:38 am: | |
Yes, and they used some flying dinosaurs as fans, mini-mammoths as vacuum cleaners and friendly velociraptors as family pets...
Machiavelli was pretty devious. For a guy... |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1849
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 7:57 am: | |
But only after they had seen H. Sapiens using them. Neanderthal see, Neanderthal do... 
Chess is the purest form of debate, unadulterated by a topic. |
Sidescraper_gal
hunter
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 381
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 10:16 pm: | |
Scott:
Plus, Neandertals couldn't even walk straight and efficient to a kill.. . . they had to do it by blundering into one, the time consuming way. Nope, no time for making beads for Neandertals, I'm afraid!
Anne G |
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