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@theneanderthal
The icon is a pic from a book (Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes) of an illustration (artistic rendition of a Neanderthal) made by Tom BjĂśrklund.
I love Neanderthals â¤ď¸
This blog is all about me loving Neanderthals and some facts about Neanderthals (and maybe other hominids).
The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.
When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.
In more modern times, weâve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.
And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.
But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. Thatâs it.
Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.
Iâm a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as âmonstrousâ, and I freely admit it. But thatâs because itâs tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernityâs) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you donât pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesnât take more than a few momentsâ reflection to realise you canât do that to the past.
We also have more and more proof of how inventive, social and caring the Neanderthals were. So I really don't believe that the Homo sapiens would have found them particularly weird and unlikeable or hard to get along with.
Homo sapiens on twitter, 90,000BC:
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sometimes I think about the fact they probably wouldn't have known neanderthals were particularly different from them
Like, idk, we have a wide phenotype variation, idk why someone back then wouldn't have just been like Those Guys Have A Slightly Different Shaped Head.
Yeah if anything, rather than being âmonstersâ, they were the original Short Kings.
Compare the two Neanderthals examples on the left with the H. sapiens skeleton on the right:
rebloging but not letting this be ommited
I knew this website wouldnât let me down
The oldest human skeleton in Brazil's Southeast was Amerindian
A study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution concluded that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton in Southeast Brazil, is a descendant of indigenous populations that inhabit the country today. The study, which compiled a mass of Brazilian archaeological genomic data, helps to unravel how the so-called Sambaqui coastal societies disappeared, and how their inhabitants relate to todayâs indigenous communities.
Luzio was found in the Ribeira Valley region of SĂŁo Paulo state and his fossilized remains have been reliably dated to around 10,400 years ago. He was named in homage to Luzia, the oldest human fossil in South America.Â
There are many debates on the ancestral origin of Luzio and Luiza, as the fossilized skulls exhibit a so-called âPaleoamerican morphology,â not seen in Brazilâs indigenous people today. It was believed that Luzio and Luzia belonged to a biologically different population than the ascendants of todayâs indigenous communities, but the DNA evidence in this study suggests otherwise.
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Would you fuck a Neanderthal* if given the opportunity?
ABSOLUTELY!!!
yes... with conditions (explain)
What... NO?!
no for ace reasons
*regardless of gender or genitalia
Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.
Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about 200,000 years agoâand it was tough. This ancient superglue made bone and stone adhere to wood, was waterproof, and didnât decompose. The tar was also used a hundred thousand years before modern humans came up with anything synthetic. After studying ancient tools that carry residue from this glue, a team of researchers from the Eberhard Karls University of TĂźbingen and other institutions in Germany found evidence that this glue wasnât just the original tar; it had been transformed in some way. This raises the question of what was involved in that transformation. To see how Neanderthals could have converted birch tar into glue, the research team tried several different processing methods. Any suspicion that the tar came directly from birch trees didnât hold up because birch trees do not secrete anything that worked as an adhesive. So what kind of processing was needed? Each technique that was tested used only materials that Neanderthals would have been able to access. Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques usedâallowing bark to burn above ground doesnât really involve much thought beyond lighting a fire. The other methods involved a recipe where the bark was not actually burned but heated after being placed underground. Two of these methods involved burying rolls of bark in embers that would heat them and produce tar. The third method would distill the tar. Because there were no ceramics during the Stone Age, sediment was shaped into upper and lower structures to hold the bark, which was then heated by fire. Distilled tar would slowly drip from the upper structure into the lower one. The resulting tars were all put through chemical and molecular analysis, as well as micro-CT scans, to determine which came closest to the residue on actual Neanderthal tools. Tars synthesized underground were closest to the residue on the original artifacts. â[Neanderthals] distilled tar in an intentionally created underground environment that restricted oxygen flow and remained invisible during the process,â the researchers wrote. âThis degree of complexity is unlikely to have been invented spontaneously.â
Weeping with joy over the idea of a Neanderthal industrial engineer
Would you fuck a Neanderthal* if given the opportunity?
ABSOLUTELY!!!
yes... with conditions (explain)
What... NO?!
no for ace reasons
*regardless of gender or genitalia
And while I'm on the subject of old hominids we know that there was once a girl who had a neanderthal mother and a denisovan father. She was a hybrid between the two species, the only first-generation hybrid we have actually found DNA from. Thousands and thousands and thousands of years after she lived and died we found her. We gave her a name- Denny. We don't know how she lived or what her life was like- we can't even really guess much at what she looked like. We only have found tiny fragments of her bones. But since we can't know what she was called in her time we named her with one of the languages of our time, we looked through her genetic code and where she was found to try to find any more clues we can about her. She was a hybrid between two other hominid species that are long gone but we found her and we said, she is one of us, and we are trying to find the story of this girl who lived unimaginably long ago, this girl that all we've found left of her is a little bit of bone. She is long dead but we're still trying to find and tell her story.
I think it's beautiful. Something something the poetry of compassion and humanity across time. Her memory lives on through us.
Putting a face to Krijn, the Netherland's oldest Neanderthal man
A group of paleo-anthropological artists at Kennis & Kennis Reconstructions have put their skills to good useâreconstructing the face of Krijn, the earliest known Neanderthal living in what was once Doggerland. The results have been included in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, a Dutch national museum dedicated to exhibiting material from the antiquities.
Krijn is special for another reason. He is the first hominin from the Pleistocene ever found under seawater. A fragment of his skull that included parts of his brow was found in material sucked from the bottom of the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands in 2001 in an area that was once part of Doggerland. Prior study of the skull fragment showed that Krijn lived approximately 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. Researchers also found that he fed mostly on meat, though he did also eat seafood on occasion. Read more.
"Kindred," by Rebecca Wragg Sykes, published by Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. (Non-fiction)
Sykes described in great detail the lives of our evolutionary cousins, the neanderthal. Sykes related the archeological history of the discovery and research of neanderthals. She provided a comprehensive view into the daily lives of the often misunderstood people.
My denisovan oc, Ammara. This took me sooo long. I gave up on the drawing like 3 times but kept coming back to her, and I finally finished her after 3 months.
I love adding details to my oc's, the shell bracelet, and the shells on her hip were made by her Neanderthal gf, Esta. The green bracelet was something denisovins might have made, which i found out about while reaserching them, so I decided to add that in to. A freind of mine was helping me design her and we joked about her having a cave hyena as a pet, so I decided to incorporate it into her design, and gave her a cave hyena fur shawl.
Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize for Unraveling the Mysteries of Neanderthal DNA
The Swedish geneticist used 40,000-year-old bones to sequence the early humansâ genome
The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine awarded the fieldâs top prize on Monday to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist who determined how to extract and analyze DNA from 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones. Pääboâs decades of research have made it possible for scientists to begin probing differences between todayâs modern humans and their ancient ancestors.
Pääbo, who is 67, has spent decades pioneering and perfecting new methods of extracting Neanderthal DNA, an extremely complex and challenging process. Over time, very old DNA degrades and can become polluted with the DNA of bacteria, and modern scientists can also easily contaminate it with their own genetic material.
But time and again, Pääbo found ways around these and other issues. In 2010, after years of painstaking work, Pääbo and his team published the sequenced Neanderthal genome, a feat that at one time was considered impossible, reports the New York Timesâ Benjamin Mueller. As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote in her book The Sixth Extinction, the process was like trying to reconstruct a âManhattan telephone book from pages that have been put through a shredder, mixed with yesterdayâs trash, and left to rot in a landfillâŚâ
Read more:Â Â https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/svante-paabo-wins-nobel-prize-for-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-neanderthal-dna-180980883
Video:Â The science part of the interview starts at 2:35.
Images: Painting by Charles R. Knight, photo by Thilo Parg CC.
study of a cool Neanderthal reconstruction I found
Geneticist Svante Pääbo reconstructed the genome of long-extinct human relatives, showing we have more in common with Neandertals than previously thought
Scientists have always been fascinated by the question of human origins: When and where did modern humansâHomo sapiensâfirst appear? What distinguishes us from other members of the genus Homo and enabled us to develop such unprecedented culture and society?
Indeed, hardly any question fascinates humanity as much as our own roots. For thousands of years, clerics, scholars and philosophers have been racking their brains about where we come from, who are we and where are we going. The French painter Paul Gauguin was so captivated by that line of inquiry that he even dedicated a painting so named in the 19th century. The work, which deals with both the meaning and the transience of life, remains his most famous.
We have come a lot closer to answering these big questions thanks in part to the work of the paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo. He achieved what others had long thought impossible: he decoded the genome of Neandertals, a relative of modern humans who went extinct around 30,000 years ago. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm honored him this year with the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his contribution to the study of human evolution.
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Neanderthal Family
A family of Neanderthals explores a valley formed by a recently retreated glacier.
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Illustration by @paleoart
Neanderthal funeral
Given the chance, would you revive the great homo sapiens tradition of fucking neanderthals
hell yea
no!! (for different species reasons)
no (for asexual reasons, but would support others fucking neanderthals)
show me the results (pick a side, coward)
âwe modern humans have varying amounts of neanderthal DNA but we know for a fact that there was hybridization between different human species
Nobody touch me im thinking abt the love story between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens
