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**Bill Harsey** · 11-30-2004, 10:30

Thanks Terry, this will happen.

For the rest, a very short overview of Neanderthals.

They built complex shelters and could control fire. They hunted up close and personal. Their brains were 10% larger than modern mans (and FrontSights) and they had body strength like modern weightlifters. They didn't have a terribly sophisticated tool kit, no stone projectile points that we associate with spears and certainly before the time of the bow and arrow.
Neanderthal skeletons show much evidence of arthritis. Here's an observation of mine about that stuff. It comes from working hard even after your injured. This means that the Neanderthal was tough enough to hunt game with stone axes by running it down and thumping it NDD style and kept doing it even after they got hurt because that was better than going hungry.

Some scientists don't think that the Neanderthal added to the modern human gene pool but were a dead end branch of the human evolution tree.

Some French anthropologists think that Neanderthal man simply migrated to and live to this day in the region known as Ireland.

I still have living relatives in Ireland.

11-30-2004, 10:30	#39
Bill Harsey Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets Posts: 3,886	Thanks Terry, this will happen. For the rest, a very short overview of Neanderthals. They built complex shelters and could control fire. They hunted up close and personal. Their brains were 10% larger than modern mans (and FrontSights) and they had body strength like modern weightlifters. They didn't have a terribly sophisticated tool kit, no stone projectile points that we associate with spears and certainly before the time of the bow and arrow. Neanderthal skeletons show much evidence of arthritis. Here's an observation of mine about that stuff. It comes from working hard even after your injured. This means that the Neanderthal was tough enough to hunt game with stone axes by running it down and thumping it NDD style and kept doing it even after they got hurt because that was better than going hungry. Some scientists don't think that the Neanderthal added to the modern human gene pool but were a dead end branch of the human evolution tree. Some French anthropologists think that Neanderthal man simply migrated to and live to this day in the region known as Ireland. I still have living relatives in Ireland.
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