Tag: Bruniquel Cave

close up portrait of a neanderthal child caveman child

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 25, 2024

Categorized
Human exceptionalism, Paleontology

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Bruniquel Cave, Tibi Puiu}

Researchers: Did Neanderthal Children Collect “Stuff”?

_{The items that raise the question are small marine shells found in caves. They were carefully preserved but have no known function. A baby tooth was found in the same area} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2024

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Human exceptionalism, Paleontology}

The study, along with recent studies of Neanderthal tools and stone circles, is making the idea that they were intellectually inferior increasingly untenable.

Asked at Psychology Today: Were Neanderthals Religious?

_{We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing} _{Denyse O'Leary
February 4, 2024

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Human exceptionalism, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

We must mentally step outside nature to consider things like how the world was created or what lies beyond death. Immaterial minds can do that.