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Aren’t Neanderthals much shorter than humans?
by bmitc 4y ago
Aren’t Neanderthals much shorter than humans?
- EdwardDiego 4y agoThey were, but also stronger, IIRC. I figured "giant" could be a metaphor, after all it's in a collection of traditions of pastoralists, wherein God rejects the agriculturalist's offering, who then kills his sheep herding brother. Then the farmer builds the first city, and his descendents are the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first dancer (debateably), and the first animal farmer - who also often conflicted with semi-nomadic herders. Great metaphor for the Iron Age equivalent of the Range Wars.