Re: "Traveling" Neandethals

On Feb 20, 2:35 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
peregr...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:45:41 +0100, Peter Alaca
<p.al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great science! Do they think Neanderthals just sat
in front of their cave waiting for the food to arrive?
20 kilometers is nothing, not even in a day.
Maybe, maybe not.
1. They did not have shoes and would have cut their feet to shreds
after five km, full of blisters. Try to walk there bare-footed today.

Waling 100 miles in one direction presents exactly the same problem to feet as
walking back and forth 1 mile 50 times. Whether or not they had shoes, likely
they did, they would face exactly the same problems traveling or not.

2. They did not have maps; they did not even know where they are.
3. Even if they had had maps, it would not have helped them very much
because the cities and roads on the maps did not exist yet.

The folks in Siberia followed mammoth migrations without maps. What in the hell
gives you the idea maps are necessary? They are simply a means to convey
geographical knowledge to others. The simpler way is to show them the way that
you learned from your father who learned from his ad nauseum.

4. They did not have the ability to speak. So they could not explain
to their clan members "Alright, another five miles and we are at the
site of the future Corinth".

It is presumptive the spoke and certainly nothing authoritative against it.

5. Walking there in summer without sun protection would have given
them sunburn, so they better stayed at home.

So Africans stay inside all day. The nocturnal life style was the human norm
until sunblock was invented.

6. Walking there without an umbrella in winter would have made their
raw-skin clothes rot on the body, and they could not stand the smell.

Unless soaked in water with oak leaves or any of a number of other tanning
substances including the one favor by Romans, piss.

7. After five km their raw-skin clothes would have fallen apart, and
they would have been ashamed to stand there stark naked. Note that
this argument alone cogently restricts their range of action to 2.5 km

Clothing wears out after 2.5 km in one direction but is restored upon returning
to the starting point.

8. They are known to have been pretty dumb; after all, that's what
they became famous for. So they had a strong tendency to walk in
circles. Their intelligence just reached so far that they did not walk
too far from home so they could find back to wife and kid.

There exists no credible estimate of their intelligence and their brains were
larger than ours.

9. There was no necessity to move from place to place because the
hordes of northern European summer tourists who inundate the territory
today such that every indigenous person who is right in his mind takes
for the bushes, did not exist yet.

Herds did not migrate back then? The fruiting season did not move north and
south during a year?

10. There is considerable evidence that there was a vivid
trans-regional trade of materials with extraneous isotope compositions
for consumption, with the intent to fool isotope analysts of today.
Anything else?

How about, where did you get this crap?

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Check it out, is one of your legs longer than the other?
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