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Originally Posted by kennyc
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: December 20, 2010
Deep in a cave in the forests of northern Spain are the remains of a gruesome massacre. The first clues came to light in 1994, when explorers came across a pair of what they thought were human jawbones in the cave, called El Sidrón. At first, the bones were believed to date to the Spanish Civil War. Back then, Republican fighters used the cave as a hide-out. The police discovered more bone fragments in El Sidrón, which they sent to forensic scientists, who determined that the bones did not belong to soldiers, or even to modern humans. They were the remains of Neanderthals who died 50,000 years ago.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/sc...anderthal.html |
Thanks Kenny, I always love to read about things like that. Its fascinating to get a piece of a very large puzzle as time goes by.
I wonder too; how have they died? And were they indeed cannibalized or were they a sacrifice to be skinned before the ritual? Could be.
Reminds me of Jean M. Auel who wrote about the Cro-magnon and Neanderthaler. She has done lots of research for her books. What I find especially interesting is that she uses the conception of the Collective Unconscious of Karl Jung freely. The memory of things we all share at a deep level, the archetypes, which explain some of the things we do and dream of.