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Old 04-23-2002, 11:33 PM   #1
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Exclamation It's good to know not much has changed in 36,000 years!
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/23/neanderthal.weapons.ap/index.html" target="_blank">Maybe it was Cain and Able!</a>

It's good to see that while us hairless primates can build shiny toys and fly in the sky, bashing each other's brains out remains classic!
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Old 04-23-2002, 11:48 PM   #2
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Wolpoff said that in his research on Neanderthals in what is now Croatia he has seen at least five fossils with these kinds of injuries.
Not only that, but we've been doing it in the same flippin place for the last 36,000 years! Must be something in the water...
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<strong>Must be something in the water...</strong>
I think its the Kirsk.

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Originally posted by Skeptictank:
<strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/23/neanderthal.weapons.ap/index.html" target="_blank">Maybe it was Cain and Able!</a>

It's good to see that while us hairless primates can build shiny toys and fly in the sky, bashing each other's brains out remains classic!
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I'm a bit skeptical about the conclusion. Obviously,
the newspaper article I read didn't have all the
details, but how do we do we know he wasn't simply
hit on the head by a falling rock from above the
cave entrance?
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