Re: Humans beat up Neandie's easily: they were wusses

In any case, the idea of conflict between HSS & HNS is based on the
notion of *competition* for hunting lands. Which is absurd given the
population estimates we have and the vastness of both the European land
and the numbers of megafauna.

The most successful tribe would have had both HNS and HSS on the
hunting teams. The former knew the landscape and the habits of the
megafauna. The weapons of the latter could kill at much lower personal
risk, but after tons of meat is dead, its the bulked up HNS who could
carry the meat back to the group.

Let's remember too that this is the ice age, that is, an era when the
ice came and went, and when it opened up again, HSS & HNS didnt likely
go back to the same hunting grounds, but followed the variation in
migrations. Which would leave HNS remains on top of HSS sites that were
abandoned when the ice returned.

Its been some years, but even with what's been found recently, I expect
all the hominid remains found so far would fit in a broom closet, Not
egzactly a representative sample of what was out there.

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