Prehistoric Cultures Class Slides Set # 01B Tim Roufs’ section Kinds of Major Finds and Announcements of the Past Quarter Century: Neandertal Other “Archaics” (“Premodern Humans”)
Neandertal
Neandertals 1.Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ? Four important Neandertal questions
Neandertals 1.Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ? 2.Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ? The “Neandertal Problem” Out-fought ? Genetically Absorbed ? Killed off by tropical and warm-climate diseases for which they had no resistance ? Four important Neandertal questions
Neandertals 1.Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ? 2.Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ? The “Neandertal Problem” 3.Did Neandertals have speech like we know it ? The “Lieberman” hypothesis Four important Neandertal questions
Neandertals 1.Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ? 2.Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ? The “Neandertal Problem” 3.Did Neandertals have speech like we know it ? 4.Did Neandertals interbreed with Homo sapiens sapiens ? Are we part Neandertal? Four important Neandertal questions
“Are our kin Neanderthals?” University of Utah researcher, John Hawks, says Neanderthals bred with modern humans Deseret News (15 January 2001)
“ Other Archaics ”