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Title: Possible new Neanderthal-Cannibalism link
Post by: TylerDurden on April 16, 2015, 12:13:01 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3038816/Did-Neanderthals-EAT-dead-relatives-57-600-year-old-broken-bones-reveal-children-torn-apart-shortly-death.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3038816/Did-Neanderthals-EAT-dead-relatives-57-600-year-old-broken-bones-reveal-children-torn-apart-shortly-death.html)

Title: Re: Possible new Neanderthal-Cannibalism link
Post by: PaleoPhil on April 17, 2015, 06:32:25 am

Cool, thanks. If this hypothesis becomes the consensus, then watch for the images of Neanderthals to shift back toward being more savage-looking. The image in the article
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/14/19/2791BC2200000578-3038816-image-a-17_1429035098952.jpg)
already portrays them as a bit more savage-looking than the average recent images, such as this one:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Neanderthals_-_Artist%27s_rendition_of_Earth_approximately_60%2C000_years_ago.jpg/220px-Neanderthals_-_Artist%27s_rendition_of_Earth_approximately_60%2C000_years_ago.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthals_in_popular_culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthals_in_popular_culture)

 :D

Title: Re: Possible new Neanderthal-Cannibalism link
Post by: TylerDurden on April 18, 2015, 03:20:29 am

Ridiculous, really, as early modern humans have been shown to have had the same cannibalistic/burial   behaviour.

Title: Re: Possible new Neanderthal-Cannibalism link
Post by: PaleoPhil on April 18, 2015, 10:57:11 pm

Yes, and some scientists hypothesize that modern humans consumed Neanderthals.