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Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans?
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that a Neanderthal jawbone covered in cut marks similar to those left behind when flesh is stripped from deer provides crucial evidence that humans attacked Neanderthals, and sometimes killed them, bringing back their bodies to caves to eat or to use their skulls or teeth as trophies. 'For years, people have tried to hide away from the evidence of cannibalism, but I think we have to accept it took place,' says Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique. According to Rozzi, a discovery at Les Rois in south-west France provides compelling support for that argument. Previous excavations revealed bones that were thought to be exclusively human. But Rozzi's team re-examined them and found one they concluded was Neanderthal." (Continued, below.)
"Importantly, it was covered in cut marks similar to those left behind when flesh is stripped using stone tools. Not every team member agrees. 'One set of cut marks does not make a complete case for cannibalism,' says Francesco d'Errico, of the Institute of Prehistory in Bordeaux. It was also possible that the jawbone had been found by humans and its teeth used to make a necklace, he said. 'This is a very important investigation,' said Professor Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum, London. 'This does not prove we systematically eradicated the Neanderthals or that we regularly ate their flesh. But it does add to the evidence that competition from modern humans probably contributed to Neanderthal extinction.'"
Her cave show offered coupons for free grilled neanderthal, and well, humans went crazy for it.
Only in France would a Scientist subvert his own work due to culinary objections!
-Peter
H. neanderthalensis != H. sapiens
Nope, but Homo sapiens neanderthalensis is darn close. If you saw one shaved and wearing a suit your first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!". Unless you're a cannibal, that is.
Loose lips lose spit.
That robust frame of theirs was probably good for endurance, but those tasty suckers sure couldn't run fast!
Poor neanderthals. Probably thought they were the top of the food chain too, until H.s.s. came along.
Loose lips lose spit.
My office is evidence that neanderthals appear to have got the upper hand in some cases. Present company included.
Well, let's think about your question. sapiens and neanderthals are like cousins, so it would be like eating a cousin... would you eat your cousin? Would you call that cannibalism? You know, since we are using spacious reasoning for now, I would also like to propose that neanderthals were major geeks. As I imagine it, this is how it went down. Joe Sapien and Richard M.S. Neanderthal were hanging out one day like they always did. rich was helping joe with a abacus virus he caught while placing the beeds in suggestive positions. The cave collapses and now Rich is trapped with Joe and some of his frat brothers. They can't get out. They get hungry. Heck - Rich isn't even the same species... who do you kill - THE GEEK. Its the only explanation that makes sense. The neanderthal was one major geek. Thank you. Thank you. I do take requests.
When all else fails, try.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=geiko%20caveman&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Geiko Caveman.
This new finding could've been an instance where enhanced interrogation techniques were being used.
Clearly, the only decent thing to do is to resurrect the Neanderthal species as soon as we can reconstruct their DNA, then pass the Earth into their custody, along with a bashful apology etched as the introductory paragraph of our Rosetta stones.
CAN I HAZ WISHBONE?
An ancient fossilized variety of soylent was found perfectly preserved!
Scientists reached the conclusion that:
SOYLENT GREEN WAS NEANDERTHAL!
If I saw a cow shaved and wearing a suit my first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!" either.
I see one every day at my work place.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
Nope, it is the new Soylent Green. Now with extra hair.
I agree it isn't even cannibalism. I wonder what they tasted like? Probably delicious...
Could someone please tag this with 'nomnomnom'?
My first thought would be to yell "GEICO! So Easy A Caveman Could Do It." Just to piss him off.
The truth is out... the existence of early Wall Street traders now confirmed.
Dude, what is UP with your movie already? It seems like you've been pushing this movie you're supposedly making (over at K5 and now, I guess, here too) for at least three years now. Are you seriously ever going to come out with a movie, or are you just jerking off over there?
Not that I really want to watch it, but I'm getting tired of seeing you brag about the fact that you're a hip indie filmmaker in your sig. What a douchebag.
If YOU did, sure.
But don't worry, neanderthals weren't known to be squeamish.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
..has more to do with the lack of chimps and gorillas in the US and Europe..
Yeah we ate them all already.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
"Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment."
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
As Robin Williams once said, "If we can't fuck it we kill it!"
I still have some steaming Republican ass on a plate left over from the last election if you want some.
You mean one of your cow-orkers, perhaps?
The Bonobo can understand fairly complex English, read & write simple ideograms, and play Pac-man.
I may be a meat eater, but any species that can run away from ghosts in a virtual maze and knows to chase them after eating power-pellets is off my menu.
"Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a mooment."
How do we know that this wasn't just a bad case of the zombies??
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
but we know they were DELICIOUS apparently.
actually I am happy to see you, however that is in fact a banana in my pocket.
I am not touching G. W. Bush, no matter how hungry I am. I'd rather die...
In most cases, many people ate the flesh of one corpse
And thirty minutes later, they felt like another one.
It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a human.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I may be a meat eater, but any species that can run away from ghosts in a virtual maze and knows to chase them after eating power-pellets is off my menu.
Yeah, let's only eat non-gamers!
You know, I had an English teacher from whom I learned that there are three institutions insist on calling themselves "House". One contains not so sane people, another employs ladies with looser than average moral values, and the third contains people who should rather be in the other two House types.
What about the one with a variety of pancakes?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Raping a chimp is a horribly bad idea
What makes you assume it was rape?
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