Re: Neanderthals survived longer than believed


In article <45087E7B.2050201@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roger Bagula <rlbagula@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Maybe these are the last ones," said Clive Finlayson of The Gibraltar
Museum, who reported the findings Wednesday with colleagues on the Web
site of the journal Nature.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5343266.stm

A study in Nature magazine suggests the species may have lived in
Gorham's Cave on Gibraltar up to 24,000 years ago.

I once asked a question in this newsgroup that is tangentially
related to this.

A creationist science teacher once made the claim that all of the
supposed remains of early man ever found would fit on one tabletop.
I wanted a handy source to refute him, and asked about it here.
Someone cited a URL that, when I followed it, didn't seem to actually
refute the claim.

Now, several times I have heard about neanderthal finds, including
deliberate burials with flowers and grave goods. A couple of the
articles have mentioned posture and other things that imply spines
and legbones in addition to the skulls. So, how many more-than-skull
finds have there been of people who were clearly anatomically
different from modern man? (The creationist claim is that the
remains of a few deformed humans have been passed off as other
species.)

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