ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Neanderthal, Krapina, Kebara Cave
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*each have specific importance that relate to specific innovations of neandertals must known them (not dates, but significance) Europe: la chapelle aux saints in s. france sympathy and cooperation . Most famous of species, found with crippling arthritis of spine. Made scientists believe neandertals were not fully erect but this was not true, it was a wrong interpretation. Illustrates empathy and cooperation in neandertals: st. cesaire, sw france classic neandertal , la ferrassie, sw france modern humans and neandetals contemporaries , krapina, croatia stratified evidence over time and intentional burial , vindija, croatia. Croatia sites show stratified sequence through time they did not move around a lot (cultural adaptions related to cold) Sw asia: tabun, israel modern humans and neandetals contemporaries . Evidence of modern humans and neandertals living in this same place contemporaneously: kebara, israel hyoid bone implies intentional burial .