Peregrine Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Re: Technologically advanced Neanderthals? I think this says it all.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]37139[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Re: Technologically advanced Neanderthals? I think this says it all.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]37139[/ATTACH] Ah, but modern humans turned up, we were the minority ... the Neanderthals had already spread out over the landscape. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Re: Technologically advanced Neanderthals? Here is a link to an article on Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthals-more-intelligent-than-thought.html This one does seem to cover the same ground as the original article, and no less informatively. That article is still not back up, but I did find where someone clipped a few paragraphs: For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own. The findings by anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore,assistant professor of anthropology at UC Denver, challenge a half-century of conventional wisdom maintaining that "They were far more resourceful than we have given them credit for." His research was based on seven years of studying Neanderthal sites throughout Italy, with special focus on the vanished Uluzzian culture. About 42,000 years ago, the Aurignacian culture, attributed to modern Homo sapiens, appeared in northern Italy while central Italy continued to be occupied by Neanderthals of the Mousterian culture which had been around for at least 100,000 years. At this time a new culture arose in the south, one also thought to be created by Neanderthals. So it's made me start to imagine modern Neanderthals using high-tech devices... like I said, maybe the Geico commercials aren't so far off the mark. But we could have alternate timelines where Uluzzians fly spaceships, get around in rocket-packs, perform microcellular surgery, and know how to get the VCR to stop blinking 12:00 all day long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Re: Technologically advanced Neanderthals? Isn't it supposed to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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