Best of the Best/Field and Stream

[CPTAUSRET]

Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

Thank ya Terry,

I've always thought those Neanderthals were very underestimated by "modern science".

I'm not sure they'd have made good helo pilots (until they found out you could hunt from them) but I know they did some things very well, like stay alive in adverse conditions.

Bill:

Seeing as my wife represents modern science pretty well, it would be nice if we could all get together, share a bottle or two of something and tell war stories.

Terry

Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

That's impressive, especially for a Neanderthal knifemaker!

Hey, Mr. Harsey is not a Neanderthal!

He is a New-Age Rennaisance Man of the 21st Century whose rule-sets even allow for femmes making car repairs with duct-tape!! Can't get much more chic than that!

FrontSight

[CPTAUSRET]

Originally Posted by FrontSight

Hey, Mr. Harsey is not a Neanderthal!

He is a New-Age Rennaisance Man of the 21st Century whose rule-sets even allow for femmes making car repairs with duct-tape!! Can't get much more chic than that!

FrontSight

Nioce of you to come to his defense, but "Neanderthal" comes from a private joke between Bill and me.

Terry

He tells me he's a Neanderthal too (perhaps different context, but have heard him utter the word on occasion.)

I tell him he just likes making self-deprecating comments

(Terry, my usage of followed by a meant just ::stern glare::, not that I was really mad because you called Mr. Harsey a Neanderthal. I figure that, somehow, both he and TS have made it through life without me being around to protect them. I don't know how they've done it, but....

FrontSight

Helloooo Mr. Best of the Best,

Please remind me to never mention to you, while riding in the car with my BF and The Shipping Associate, that I would be heading across the pond when I haven't yet completely informed my BF of this...

:: ouch ::

FrontSight

[Bill Harsey]

Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

Bill:

Seeing as my wife represents modern science pretty well, it would be nice if we could all get together, share a bottle or two of something and tell war stories.

Terry

I would enjoy that. I'll bring the flint to make the fire with.

[Bill Harsey]

Originally Posted by FrontSight

He tells me he's a Neanderthal too (perhaps different context, but have heard him utter the word on occasion.)

I tell him he just likes making self-deprecating comments

(Terry, my usage of followed by a meant just ::stern glare::, not that I was really mad because you called Mr. Harsey a Neanderthal. I figure that, somehow, both he and TS have made it through life without me being around to protect them. I don't know how they've done it, but....

FrontSight

I also have no idea how both the Team Sergeant and I made it this far without FrontSight around to protect us.
How did I ever make a knife without her...

[CPTAUSRET]

Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

I would enjoy that. I'll bring the flint to make the fire with.

Sounds good, war stories around the fire.

Terry

[Bill Harsey]

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.

[CPTAUSRET]

Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

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.

Bill:

As to their (Neanderthal) brain being 10% larger than modern mans, I was not aware of that data. As to whether your brain, my brain, male brains in general are larger than Frontsights, that evidence is clear...It is widely presumed that we have larger brains, thus more brain cells than females because we have a (generally) larger skeletal mass, and it takes greater brainpower (ie a larger computer) to run/manage a larger engine.

Terry

[Bill Harsey]

The 10% brain thing is real science, I'll have to find my reference.

Big Engine, Big Brain!
I like that.