Nine Neanderthal fossils Found in Cave Near Rome
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Archaeologists in Italy unearthed the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals who met a rather gruesome fate when they were preyed upon by hyenas thousands of years ago.
According to a press release from the Italian Cultural Ministry, the remarkable find was made at a location known as Guattari Cave, which is a site that had been sealed off from the world by way of a landslide some 60,000 years ago until its accidental discovery in 1939. An initial investigation of the cavern at the time produced a Neanderthal skull which was heralded as “sensational,” but now pales in comparison to what a modern excavation has uncovered.
While working to improve the safety conditions of the cave, workers were stunned to find the remains of a staggering nine additional Neanderthals. Eight of these individuals are believed to be somewhere between 50 to 68 thousand years old and the ninth body is thought to be around 90 to 100 thousand years old. Italy’s Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, declared the find to be “an extraordinary discovery that the whole world will talk about because it enriches research on Neanderthals.” Among the remains unearthed during the excavation are various skull caps, jaw bones, two teeth, and various other fragments.
As for how the Neanderthals wound up in the cave, archaeologists paint a grim picture of their demise. Based on the “abundant hyena remains” found in the location, experts believe that the site served as a den for the carnivorous creatures. As such, scientists studying the bones suggest that the unfortunate Neanderthals were hunted down by hyenas and dragged into the cave where they were then eaten.
This macabre conclusion is informed by the fact that the newly discovered remains “show clear signs of gnawing.” Bolstered by the new Neanderthal find, researchers in Italy intend to redouble their efforts to study the cave in the hopes of unearthing any additional secrets of the distant past that may be hidden there.
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Pachamama?
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MattH
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This article does not mention the carved stones in the cave. Hyenas are not dexterous at using tools let alone carving stones.
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MattH
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Then I discover this on a news site.
Discoveries of ventilation holes in the ceiling of the cave had led some anthropologists to believe that Neanderthals also engaged in ritual cannibalism, according to the ministry, which added that some of the discovered bones had been burned.
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Mark Tapley
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Probably similar to those noble and peaceful Amer. Indians of the southwest who stirred their tribal neighbors into the stew at every opportunity. No Neanderthal vegans I wager, just pursuing their natural paleo diet. If aunt Tilly got covid she may have been lunch.
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MattH
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And now I spot that the cannibalism is described as ritualistic. What absolute garbage.
Cannibalism occurred because of hunger and competition for resources, usually nothing to do with ritual. The urban myth that people feasted on the hearts of their enemies to devour or gain the courage of ones enemy is just an apologist position taken by many historians and anthropologists who do not wish to have either foot on the path to reality.
Cannibalism is recorded in many areas of the world including the Donner party in America and the plane crashed Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes. When needs must the devil drives.
It was a cultural norm in the Pacific as there was little more than seafood and birds for protein sources. When Captain James Cook undertook his voyages of discovery he recorded that in most Polynesian archipelago groups the inhabitants had just had a war with neighbours, were at war, or were preparing for war.
Cook and earlier explorers introduced domestic animals throughout the Pacific to provide protein sources. Pigs were generally the most successful introduced species.
Europeans were also dispatched and eaten. The Boyd massacre is the most notable event in New Zealand where over 60 Europeans were eaten. The crew of a long boat on the sister ship on one of Cooks voyages were consumed in Cannibal Cove, Marlborough Sounds.
The missionaries curbed the practice but the introduction of large mammals made the eventual near elimination of cannibalism possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_massacre
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Mark Tapley
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While it makes for a good story I think it is unlikely the mostly timid scavengers would attack a human unless weak or injured. They also would not expend the energy required to drag the carcass back to a den. Probably when the old dilapidated cave dwellers died, they were just dragged to the back of the cave and thrown in with aunt Tilly. The dating system estimates are also just more fancy guess work.
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Evolution vs God
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Evolution vs God – https://youtu.be/U0u3-2CGOMQ
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Burns Matkin
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Another made up story by the “experts”. I am so sick of “experts”, I want to hang them all with the people that claim authority because they invoked the “experts”.
I have come to realize that “science” is crap. Think of all the stupid ideas that “science” has foisted on the human race over time, most of it wrong. Galileo wasn’t considered an “expert”, but eventually, the technology espoused by Galileo was proven out.
You can replicate millions of Iphones that will work, but you can’t tell a Neanderthal story because it cannot be replicated.
The comments above pointed to the garbage the “experts” were trying to narrate. The media published the “science” only to have the technology of the internet prove that the Neanderthal story line was crap.
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Markm Tapley
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Hi Matkin:
While we know that evolutionary paleontology is for the most part just an attempt to prop up their preconceived evolutionary narratives as with the ape to human hypothesis for which there is no mechanism. But at least they have uncovered a few bones of some type. That’s more than can be said of the great corona scam.
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