On Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:08:41 MDT you wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Sep 95 21:46:30 EDT, sjones@iinet.com.au (Stephen Jones) said:
>
>GM>We see some similarities in the way bear carcasses are treated in
>Neanderthal settings with the way the Chippewa and Ainu treat them.
>How long has this tradition been passed down?
SJ>It can't be any longer than 125,000 years because according
>to the Hominid FAQ, "Neandertal man existed between 125,000
>and 35,000 years ago".
JF>[FAQ author speaking here]
>Don't take that as gospel, it's a minimum date only. I've already
>increased it to 135,000 years in the next version, and I've heard of
>possible dates for Neandertals that are quite a bit older, maybe past
>200,000 yrs. The older dates may be from scrappier fossils that are
>difficult to conclusively identify. Some of the archaic H.sapiens
>fossils, for example, have some Neandertal traits.
OK, but "135,000" or "200,000" hardly makes any material diference.
Glenn is claiming that Noah lived *5,500,000* years ago, ie. 25 times
200,000!
Also, I read somewhere recently that Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon
man (H. sapiens) overlapped? The Neandertal traits in archaic
H.sapiens would perhaps be evidence of that, ie. interbreeding?
Regards.
Stephen
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