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Sidescraper_gal
hunter
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 553
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 01, 2007 - 12:16 am: |     |
All:
As you can see from this little article, Neandertals appear to have been a "travelin'" bunch. They appear to have made it almost to China, and you can read about it here:
http://science.physorg.com/sub_Archaeology+%7E+Fossils/
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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 2110
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - 2:55 am: | |
So they got as far as Altai. Interesting. Thanks for the article. So, I wonder who settled Mamontovaya Kurya? That would be fascinating if it turns out that our brawny cousins did.
So they traveled the world but didn't stop and play with anyone that they met? Highly unlikely in my opinion.
Scott
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Sidescraper_gal
flint knapper
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 558
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - 10:10 pm: | |
Scott:
Mamontovay Kurya is an interesting site, all right. If it's 36 kyr old, there is a distinct possibility that Neandertals did, in fact live there, at least for a while. Maybe some of them wanted to "escape" "modern" humans, for all we know. Or, if they didsettle there, they just followed reindeer/caribou and mammoths northward. Most people who think about this at all, think that "modern" humans settled the place, but OTOH, there is a Neandertal-identified site in Finland that is about 70 kyr old. It is called Susiluola, and the climate then was probably similar to that of Finland nowhttp://www.susiluola.fi/eng/index_eng.php
In any case, that would have been pretty far north for Neandertals at that time As far as going to the Altai is concerned, I think that if they didn't "play" with anybody else they found in the area, I would agree with you.
Anne G
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