So that makes me question the dates & timelines of a lot of other incidences you wrote about.Īs for those people who built a wall with stalagmites etc and made fires on it and around it, was to keep predators away and at bay. Lastly, I was of the understanding that It was agreed that Lucy was more ape than what was originally thought!

In fact, they take exception to that thinking.

However, one thing for sure! They do not hold to the belief that their ancestors were what you believe em to be. You can have a good upgrade to your point of reference when you join one of these tribes for a year or two. So, I guess if you want to know how the Neanderthal lived. Shelter building is reduced to wood/grass huts where mud mixed with grass/straw makes a way more enduring water/wind/element proof structure. So yeah, the rest applies how they not keep protein sources from being infected with flu larvae etc. I have some personal experience on some of the things you wrote about, so here’s my piece for what’s worth it might be:Īs someone from Africa, and someone that lived in various regions and in and out of cities, I have no doubt how Neanderthals lived.Įven for people that have been exposed to relative modern practices, medicines and health practices, you might be surprised to learn that millions on that continent still do not boil their water (even with an abundance of wood etc) But we have some idea what they looked like, because they were Neanderthals. We don’t know who these people were or why they did any of this. But they or their fellows returned more than once to build further fires amidst the stone rings. There was no cooking or butchering in the cave, which lies about a thousand feet down a narrow passage, and without any means of venting the smoke of their torches and fires the air must have been choking. And then they lit fires, beside and on top of the structure itself. In a few places they stacked more stones, for all the world like the ruins of some classical temple, in piles. The stones were layered atop each other (up to four levels in some places) and carefully braced to build the walls of the rings. There they broke some four hundred stalagmites from the ground and used the central cylindrical pieces - more than two tons of them -to build a pair of enormous circles. One hundred seventy-five thousand years ago, a group of people carried torches deep into a cave in what is now the southwest of France. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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