How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans |First Faved : May 17 2009 by tfwrightFaved : 3 times with notesViewed : 12 timesFave It!
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- lizzielizzie8 - May 21 2009
It is a possibility. Not as surprising as I thought it would be.
- LaVaughn - May 17 2009 | esoterica, archaeology
Quoted: One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil ...
creationists are going to love this one
Quoted: "Neanderthals met a violent end at our hands and in some cases we ate them," Rozzi said.
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They found a "butchered jawbone" and their going with this hypothesis??? That's weak evidence. While it's possible, the cut marks on bones that result from cleaning away muscle tissue are in many cases identical, whether the bone is processed to be used as a component of a weapon or whether the meat is taken for food. Also, there is already sufficient evidence to suggest that humans possibly traded with Neanderthals, which could make cannibalism an unlikely sole cause for extinction.
That quote is pretty sensationalist. I dotted this more for humor than scientific edification. Though I find it interesting that you are resistant to the hypothesis, whereas you take (what I would consider) more outlandish scientific theories in stride. Is it possible that this guardian article has touched a nerve, unearthing suppressed ferreraian fears of a cannibalistic essence?
Also, are you quoting there, or is forensic science just one of your many talents you normally keep hidden but then bust out given sufficient provocation (a la super mario bros 3)?
That humans and Neanderthals maintained social interaction (both diplomatic and not) at certain points in the archeological record is pretty text-book ANTH 301 Human Evolution knowledge (I double majored). I'm more shocked that the article will be published without revisions to its hypothesis than anything else. Publishing a find is one thing. Drawing fast and loose conclusions without sufficient evidence to exclude all other possibilities is another.