Neanderthal Research Paper

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Who Were the Neanderthals, and What Happened to Them? A look at our ancestors. Susan Hollingshead Anthropology 112 OL5 Danette Michaels May 02, 2011 # Bibliography ## #Physical Anthropology: What happened to the Neanderthals? Are modern humans related to them? 1.) “Evolution of Modern Humans” Dec 18, 2010 http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_2.htm Created and maintained by Dr. Dennis O'Neil Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos, California this page was last updated on Monday, January 04, 2010. 2.) Roach, John “Neanderthals, Modern Humans May Have Interbred, Skull Study Suggests“, National Geographic, January 16, 2007 3.) Saey,…show more content…
As they did not use bows and arrows, or other projectiles, hunting such big game with wooden spears would have required using group ambush hunting strategies Neanderthals apparently lived in small nuclear families, there is clear evidence of interaction between family or neighboring groups. The oldest Neanderthals appear to be just over 30. In some cases, it is clear that Neanderthals lived well beyond their capacity to fend for themselves. Some skeletal remains suggest that the Neanderthal took care of their infirm and injured, and sometimes carried out burials. For example, a skeleton at a gravesite in Iraq indicates that the deceased had a withered arm. There is some evidence of intentional burial, including evidence that babies and infants were buried in shallow pits, and others were placed in natural fissures. Anthropologist Louis Leakey said Neanderthal grave sites were intentional — some having gravestones over the grave — and this showed that Neanderthals displayed…show more content…
That event created a “volcanic winter” that devastated the ecology of southern and eastern Europe, in their view.12 Geologist Biagio Giaccio of the Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering In Rome challenges Golovanova’s account. Excavations in four southern Mediterranean caves have unearthed modern human tools that, contrary to the new proposal, are slightly older than ash layers from the 40,000-year-old volcanic eruption in Italy, Modern humans survived because they lived in Africa and on the tip of southwestern Asia at that time, safely outside the range of volcanic ash clouds Some think one of the most likely causes for the Neanderthals extinction is them being killed off by diseases/viruses that MDH unintentionally brought with them as they moved into Europe during the last ice age. 13 Certainly cases of such things happening in other groups of people has been documented, like the Spanish bringing Smallpox over to the Aztec empire. It’s possible that

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