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shenmue

(38,501 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 05:43 PM Sep 2014

Og was here: Neanderthal 'artwork' found in Gibraltar cave

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28967746

From the article:

An engraving found at a cave in Gibraltar may be the most compelling evidence yet for Neanderthal art.

The pattern, which bears a passing resemblance to the grid for a game of noughts and crosses, was inscribed on a rock at the back of Gorham's Cave.
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Og was here: Neanderthal 'artwork' found in Gibraltar cave (Original Post) shenmue Sep 2014 OP
Art, or Tic Tac Toe? DJ13 Sep 2014 #1
It looks like a first proof of the Pythagorean Theorem daleo Sep 2014 #2
Awesome pretty soon science will catch up with my theories. Kalidurga Sep 2014 #3
I'll bite edhopper Sep 2014 #4
My favorite they are almost there Kalidurga Sep 2014 #5
Okay edhopper Sep 2014 #6
My theory on Neanderthals is that they cross bred with humans Kalidurga Sep 2014 #7
I had always heard cross breasding edhopper Sep 2014 #10
I would laugh if the cave paintings were Neaderthal and they taught moderns. roguevalley Sep 2014 #8
And here it is: Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #9
... Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #11
WHYYYYYYYY? XemaSab Sep 2014 #12
Straight lines perpendicular to each other. Impressive. Jenoch Sep 2014 #13
Like this edhopper Sep 2014 #14

daleo

(21,317 posts)
2. It looks like a first proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 05:51 PM
Sep 2014

Perhaps it was a Neanderthal university lecture hall.

Honestly, the more I learn about them, the more I think they have gotten a bad rap from modern humans.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
5. My favorite they are almost there
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 09:09 PM
Sep 2014

Is that some people came from the the South Asian Island groups by boat several thousand years before anyone came over the land bridge.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
7. My theory on Neanderthals is that they cross bred with humans
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 09:39 PM
Sep 2014

someone saying it wasn't possible confused me, since I was pretty sure it actually happened. Now they have found about 1-3% of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans. I think that is amazing since Neanderthals are long gone. I think what drove them to extinction is that humans had a more efficent way of communicating and it gave them an advantage for resouces like game and better places for gathering vegetation. The modern humans had more complex drawings for example the cave drawings in France those may have told a story of how and where to hunt that would be passed down through generations. I also think women were the artists and not men as it is supposed.

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