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Anthropology

Anthropology. So what’s a caveman anyway?. Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ?. A recent genetic study suggests that yes, in areas where ancient H. sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted, there was interbreeding between the species. .

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Anthropology

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  1. Anthropology So what’s a caveman anyway?

  2. Homo neanderthalensisorHomo sapiens neanderthalensis?

  3. A recent genetic study suggests that yes, in areas where ancient H. sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted, there was interbreeding between the species. However, the data suggest that while male Neanderthals may have had offspring with female H. sapiens sapiens, female Neanderthals probably did not produce offspring with male H. s. sapiens. Could we have bred with Neanderthals?

  4. 130 000ya – 30 000ya

  5. Mousterian • Châtelperronian • Aurignacian • Gravettian What were their tools like?

  6. Were Neanderthals artistic? Images of what appear to be seals, tentatively dated To around 43 000 years ago. From Nerja, Spain.

  7. One famous Neanderthal burial was found with flowers in it. Given that these particular flowers have strong medicinal properties, many people believe that it suggests that Neanderthals had rituals regarding their dead, which might suggest a belief in an afterlife. Burials?!1?1!

  8. Shanidar 1

  9. Crushed left side of skull • Fracture wounds have healed • Survived after injury • Lived until 34-40 • Likely blind in left eye • Severe brain damage to left side • of the brain, which controls the right • side of the body. • Severe fracture in deformed humerus • Paralyzed on right side due to brain injury • Pronounced limp • Multiple deformities This individual was cared for by his group!!

  10. Intelligent • Socially complex • Caring • Artistic • And frankly, a lot like us. Neanderthals were… So what happened to them?

  11. Some argue that Neanderthals interbred with H. sapiens sapiens, their genetic material eventually becoming incorporated into modern humans. AKA: Gene Flow • Others believe that when modern humans left Africa and came to Europe, they outcompeted the Neanderthals, driving them to extinction. Many hypotheses.

  12. Photos from Wikipedia, National Geographic, and The Human Origins Project

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