Greenism in it's death throes

[EternalOptimist]

Apparently there are places in the world where so many axe heads have been discovered, which are believed to be of Neatherthal origin IIRC, that it's not known why they did it. They appear to have gone technology mad.

well they were constantly making breakthroughs. from knapping, to heat treating to core. iirc.

they probably had specialists, and they had bugger all to do in the winter, except drink beer , fornicate, drool and make spear points.

[TimberWolf]

well they were constantly making breakthroughs. from knapping, to heat treating to core. iirc.

Sounds like cutting edge technology.

[EternalOptimist]

Sounds like cutting edge technology.

it is amazing. I often look around me to see if there is any vestigal neanderthalism around. Slopey forhead, chinless knuckle draggers. Inarticulate.

have you seen any around here lately ?

[TimberWolf]

it is amazing. I often look around me to see if there is any vestigal neanderthalism around. Slopey forhead, chinless knuckle draggers. Inarticulate.

have you seen any around here lately ?

The description conjures an image of a male of the species, but presumably the women were just as bad. Imagine that, an inarticulate woman!

[TimberWolf]

Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looked


(that's a woman by the way)

Why Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looks - Science, News - The Independent

[EternalOptimist]

Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looked


(that's a woman by the way)

Why Neanderthal man may not have been as stupid as he looks - Science, News - The Independent

like I said, there is very strong evidence that we nicked the flint technologies from them. There is also very strong evidence that they couldnt vocalise. Thats a real impediment to abstract thinking

which is what we are good at

[TimberWolf]

like I said, there is very strong evidence that we nicked the flint technologies from them. There is also very strong evidence that they couldnt vocalise. Thats a real impediment to abstract thinking

which is what we are good at

I've found the reference to what I mentioned earlier about Neanderthals and their stone axe obsession. It was actually an earlier hominid, from whom presumably Ned and we liberated the technology off.

SOMETIME ABOUT A million and a half years ago, some forgotten genius of the hominid
world did an unexpected thing. He (or very possibly she) took one stone and carefully used it
to shape another. The result was a simple teardrop-shaped hand axe, but it was the world’s
first piece of advanced technology.

It was so superior to existing tools that soon others were following the inventor’s lead and
making hand axes of their own. Eventually whole societies existed that seemed to do little
else. “They made them in the thousands,” says Ian Tattersall. “There are some places in
Africa where you literally can’t move without stepping on them. It’s strange because they are
quite intensive objects to make. It was as if they made them for the sheer pleasure of it.”

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[Spacecadet]

I've found the reference to what I mentioned earlier about Neanderthals and their stone axe obsession. It was actually an earlier hominid, from whom presumably Ned and we liberated the technology off.



29 THE RESTLESS APE

And now we have Angry Birds to while away entire hours with