Neanderthals Lacked Projectile Weapons

[Oresai]

A trio of new studies on prehistoric weapons suggests Neanderthals made sophisticated weapons and tools — possibly including the first sticky adhesive — but they lacked the projectile weapons possessed by early humans.

The missing technology, along with climate change and competition with arrow-shooting humans, may have contributed to the Neanderthals' eventual extinction.

"While we are not suggesting that modern humans were directing projectile weapons against Neanderthals, it is certainly possible that at times they did so," Steven Churchill, co-author of one of the papers, told Discovery News.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28663444/

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"While we are not suggesting that modern humans were directing projectile weapons against Neanderthals, it is certainly possible that at times they did so," Steven Churchill, co-author of one of the papers, told Discovery News.

LOL, no kidding. I wouldn't doubt for a minute they had a shoot on sight policy. No PC in those days. :thumbs up

[Lenny]

LOL, no kidding. I wouldn't doubt for a minute they had a shoot on sight policy. No PC in those days. :thumbs upIt is false to think of Neanderthals as racial-aliens. Homo-sapiens-Neanderthalensis was far closer to "Homo-sapiens-Europensis" than "Homo-sapiens-Europensis" is to "Homo-Sapiens-Africanus".


Now let’s see how taxonomists have classified Neanderthals. Until the 1960s, Neanderthals were classified as Homo neanderthalensis, a different species from us, Homo sapiens. But the genetic distance between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis (<0.08%) is less than the genetic distance between the two chimpanzee species (0.103). Today, Neanderthals are classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a sub-species of our species, while we are another sub-species, Homo sapiens sapiens. The genetic distance between (sub-Saharan) Africans and Eurasians (0.2%) is more than twice the genetic distance between living humans and Neanderthals (0.08%) so, at the very least, Africans should be classified as a sub-species, Homo sapiens africanus and Eurasians as another sub-species, Homo sapiens eurasianensis.

    Finally, the genetic distance between Homo sapiens and Homo erectus is estimated as 0.170 (mean given as 0.19), about the same as the genetic distance between the Bantu Africans and the Eskimos, but the genetic distance between living Africans and Eurasians is 0.23 (Table 7-1, p. 45). Thus, Homo sapiens is more closely related to Homo erectus than Eurasians are to sub-Saharan Africans. Either erectus should be reclassified as Homo sapiens erectus or sub-Saharan Africans should be reclassified as Homo africanus.

http://erectuswalksamongst.us/Chap28.html

It is almost certain that Neanderthals interbred with CroMagnons in some limited capacity, producing the European racial stock of 10,000 years ago (before the various other in-migrations).

Some of the Neanderthal ethnicities even had fair hair and blue eyes.