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Re: Neanderthals v Humans
Nov 08, 2012, 11:21
Harryshill wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
Going back to the neanderthals, I see nothing that might indicate they made simple stone or wood structures in the form of circles or even solitary standing stones or 'posts'. If not in countries effected by ice, then elsewhere I think some kind of evidence might have cropped up.

I agree with you that this seemed to come later with then mankind had a greater control over his environment. Why that should be so, I have no idea, and it might be entirely coincidental, but I don't think so.


Yes the open stone circle emergence is intriguing and of course still not understood, but I see no reason why timber circles would not have been made and 'infilled' to make animal holding pens for example.


Nothing to suggest they held or penned animals. The records seem to suggest they ate animals that might not fair well under those circumstances.

Neanderthal arm bone shape suggests they used a thrusting weapon (Hand held spear) to hunt, capturing might not have been energy efficient.

They might have used a corralling system but again only if it was energy efficient.


There may be nothing to suggest it but it doesn't stop us from imagining the obvious. These were people born and raised in an environment that honed them into hunter/gatherers and nobody in that situation could fail to learn that rounding up animals for the leaner times wasn't the way forward. 'Roundups' would have taken place for sure ending in animals being penned for eating. In later times, if not then, the obvious again would have happened and those animals would have been bred from and hey presto, the farming of animals began! We may know very little of these people but for sure they knew their onions when it came to day to day survival.
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