130,000 years ago? Even Neandertal Fucks the Creatards

[Funcaldunkal]

I'm actually not surprised, I have heard people suggesting before that Neanderthal's were more intelligent than we give them credit for.

We're talking about a species that survived in the cold, harsh pre-historic European climate for hundreds of thousands of years (probably migrating south during ice ages). It's not surprising at all that they were intelligent enough to do things prehistoric modern humans were also doing. Their upright stature also supports larger brains in the same way ours does.

All modern Europeans also have trace amounts of Neanderthal ancestry too, so they were genetically similar enough to our ancestors to breed with them.

Interesting point. If only we knew more about prehistory. What we do know seems fascinating. Was just recently reading about how the cave paintings in France, the 17,300 year old ones, might be depicting constellations. That's pretty intelligent.