Re: Neanderthal skull, Ape's profile...

On 04/04/2024 15:04, panther2020 wrote:

 Add this to your perfect fit collection, this seems to be the first thing Danny Vendramini noticed when studying Neanderthals:
 https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-57b93009d27a341ed19e172c9ad3d5d9-lq
  As I mentioned, the Neanderthal was a very advanced bipedal ape with dark world eyes and a fur coat.  In fact early human needles are common but nbobody has ever found a Neanderthal needle.  A creaturre with a fur coat does not require needles....
 

Why does a creature with a fur coat require leather processing tools?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1302730110
The web tells me that Neandertals did produce clothing, but they laced it together rather than sewed it together.
There's a report of a 50,000 year old needle from the Denisova Cave. I haven't found a detailed report, but it's suggested that it's associated with Denisovan occupancy (that cave has been occupied at different times by Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans, and includes skeletal remains from a first generation Neandertal/Denisovan hybrid). (Denisovans are more closely related to Neadertals than either are to modern humans. Denisovan ancestry can found in many human populations in east Asia and Australasia.)
"Early" human needles also appear to mostly postdate Neandertal extinction.
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alias Ernest Major