Re:The Highbrow Neanderthal
by vc43fsdf on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:57AM
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Just will add this: we don't know, maybe the Neanderthals already could speak thousands of years before the Home Sapiens learned to do so.
Then the original Neanderthal civilization had a sharp edge over the Sapiens, through thousand of years.
Ok, everyone says here "but technological development SHOULD have happened". And I would say "not necessarily", and it actually could happened a couple of times, but it didn't had the written word advantage to keep building upon learned stuff (you keep discovering-then-forgetting the same things over and over), or maybe there was other factor limiting the Neanderthal technological development (neurological, strong "bad-to-tech" cultural practices, etc.).
You say "not probably", but Homo Sapiens just recently (re)learned to wash hands as a safe method to better health outcomes, maybe for the 40th time in several thousands of years across a dozen of civilizations / tribes who already know about washed-hands = good health:
Re:The Highbrow Neanderthal
by mod50ack on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:21AM
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It's not just the Essenes. Jews generally have a long history of handwashing. I've heard some things conjectured with regards to this and the black plague.
Then the original Neanderthal civilization had a sharp edge over the Sapiens, through thousand of years.
Ok, everyone says here "but technological development SHOULD have happened". And I would say "not necessarily", and it actually could happened a couple of times, but it didn't had the written word advantage to keep building upon learned stuff (you keep discovering-then-forgetting the same things over and over), or maybe there was other factor limiting the Neanderthal technological development (neurological, strong "bad-to-tech" cultural practices, etc.).
You say "not probably", but Homo Sapiens just recently (re)learned to wash hands as a safe method to better health outcomes, maybe for the 40th time in several thousands of years across a dozen of civilizations / tribes who already know about washed-hands = good health:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esenios