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Neanderthals had advanced jewelry drills, could make their own clay dishes, could treat diseases with herbs and simple surgeries, and they even had some knowled
by nukeop 8y ago
Neanderthals had advanced jewelry drills, could make their own clay dishes, could treat diseases with herbs and simple surgeries, and they even had some knowledge of dentistry. They were able to construct furnaces, had advanced (at the time) weapons, social structures, and created underground settlements and tunnels spanning hundreds of kilometers.
The popculture image of grunting, snorting primitive cavemen is more fitting for Homo Sapiens than Homo Neanderthalensis.
- amorphid 8y ago>> tunnels spanning hundreds of kilometers Do you mean tunnels that are hundreds of kilometers long? Sounds interesting. Can you point us to some reading on that?
- nukeop 8y agoHere's an article on one such underground site: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18291 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18291 The tunnels themselves were not that long or linked up, but apparently all those that were found under Europe add up to hundreds of kilometers.
- amvalo 8y agoWhat do you mean by the word "tunnel" here? They seem to be talking about an arrangement of stones on a cave floor.
- amvalo 8y agoNo way that's true. Maybe he have meant trade routes?
- samfriedman 8y agoIt might be more accurate to say that they used tunnels spanning that distance in total: cave systems.
- kewafb14 8y agoAgreed, and apparently we killed them all. We're the savage ones :D
- mantas 8y agoAnd had kids with quite a few of them..
- hutzlibu 8y agoWhat would interest me is, if this was more a love/voluntarily thing, or more rape and owning the women of the defeated tribe ...
- mantas 8y agoI guess both. Sometimes tribes having hard times would join better off tribes. Naturally women would be expected to procreate. Taking women during raids was common too. Or if men were killed in warfare, women may have "voluntarily" joined the other tribe. This is common to overall tribe relations. For example, Baltic and Fino-Ugric people in North/east Europe. Baltic people came as part of Indo Europeans while Fino-Ugric people lived there before that. Modern Lithuanians and Latvians have much more Fino Ugric genome in women-specific parts. Some of traditionally women arts were also carried from Fino Ugric tradition into Baltic. Conclusions are pretty clear...