#neanderthal

[phytsera]

paleolithic yuri save me…

(ocs! the neanderthal is krsnós and the amh is dyēws :)

[injuries-in-dust]

[pansylair]

Wishing much love, kindness, and a happy Gregorian New Year to all as we go into 2025 along with some more slice of life Neanderthal art! 💛💛💛 :-)

[berensreverie]

A homo neanderthalensis and a homo sapiens. Happy pride!

[whencyclopedia]

This map illustrates the early global migrations of Homo sapiens—our species’ remarkable journey from Africa to every inhabitable continent. Tracing movements that began over hundreds of thoussands of years ago, it highlights how small bands of early humans ventured out of eastern Africa and gradually spread across the globe. These migrations unfolded in waves, shaped by shifting climates, coastlines...

[thestuffedalligator]

There was a Neanderthal in the kitchen.

His name was — inexplicably — Abba.

“That sounds so fake,” Brittney said.

The two of them watched Abba try to work his way around the concept of a box of Lucky Charms. He had managed the trick of the cardboard flaps, and was struggling manfully with the plastic bag.

“I like it,” said Charlie.

“Yeah, but Abba? We have the most scientifically significant discovery in human history in our kitchen, and his name is Abba.”

Abba flipped over the bag to see if the other side would open any easier.

“I can’t hear that name without thinking Waterloo,” Brittney said.

“Actually, that’s really interesting,” said Charlie. “We know he’s a father, and a lot of languages have a word for ‘mother’ and ‘father’ that are made from an open vowel sound and a bilabial consonant. Mama and papa. Ama and aba. Linguists say we borrowed these words from baby babble and used them to describe ourselves.”

Abba was trying to open the bag with his teeth.

“So?”

“So, if the same is true for Neanderthals, then for hundreds of thousands of years, for as long as we have known ourselves, we have held our children in our arms and loved them, and when they babbled at us we found words and named ourselves with them,” Charlie said. “We’ve done it since prehistory, and we’ve done it over and over again in a thousand languages until—”

There was a popping sound, followed by a little rattling hail of oats.

Abba stood at the epicentre of an explosion of cereal, blinking. Pastel-coloured marshmallows clung to his face and beard.

Brittney and Charlie stared to see if there would be a reaction of some kind. Then: “You good, Abba?”

Abba plucked a blue moon from his cheek and popped it into his mouth. He chewed thoughtfully and gave a thumbs up.

“Also weird that Neanderthals had the thumbs up thing, apparently,” Brittney muttered.

“Well, it’s like what I was saying. He’s proof that we’ve been repeating the same behaviours over and over again through history.”

There was a thoughtful silence. Abba chewed noisily and with sticky delight.

Then Brittney said, in a slightly far away voice: “So the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.”

“Fuck off.”

[reesemh]

Clay stained mother and child — Neanderthals sheltering from the winter outside

I’ve been wanting to draw Neanderthals for a while as I, quite frankly, love them and find them unbelievably fascinating… that being said I noticed that nearly every depiction is a static standing pose or some kind of hunting or aggressive scene. I think it is important to remember the Neanderthal made jewelry, made art, had music and medicine and culture. They had caves they would generationally return to. They were, in nearly every way, human. If not for genetics, I truly think they should be considered as human as we are, for all the considerations of what makes us human, can be applied to them in some way.

Anyways, hope you like this piece and my little rant…

[bourtange]

if you traveled back in time to the stone age, would you fuck a neanderthal? keep in mind they're not the same species as us but they are the same genius