tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post4922401396343816168..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Did Cannibalism contribute to Neanderthal extinction?Dienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-92152064724475962792008-03-04T02:30:00.000+02:002008-03-04T02:30:00.000+02:00This article compares them to a cannibalistic trib...This article compares them to a cannibalistic tribe in South America:<BR/><BR/>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/27/neanderthal-cannibalism.htmlCrimson Guardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08259882884691575025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-43402434392286478392008-03-03T01:27:00.000+02:002008-03-03T01:27:00.000+02:00"The idea that they ate themselves to death is a t..."The idea that they ate themselves to death is a tad to comical. I think it'll make more sense if its; because they were cannibals, is why the Proto-Europoids wouldve helped contributed to annihilating them on a steady basis."<BR/><BR/>How about the the newly arrived humans ate them?UncleTomRuckusInGoodWhiteWorldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07508650487951730570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-937951438485250472008-03-02T13:05:00.000+02:002008-03-02T13:05:00.000+02:00This is not just daft speculation. There has been ...This is not just daft speculation. There has been a quite recent<BR/>precedent in the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea, who suffered from a prion disease called kuru (the photograph in the Discovery article actually shows these people) caused by cannibalism.<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1235525.stm<BR/><BR/>the telling quote in this story is:<BR/>"By the time kuru, which means "trembling" or "shivering", was discovered by outsiders, it was killing half of all women and<BR/>children in the Fore tribe".<BR/><BR/>That's a fair old attrition rate.<BR/><BR/>regards<BR/><BR/>RichardRichard Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726482358889849398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-58905246676493815072008-02-29T21:38:00.000+02:002008-02-29T21:38:00.000+02:00But contemporary cannibal populations (Papua, etc....But contemporary cannibal populations (Papua, etc.) infected with the same thingie did survive.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-42335889170974308402008-02-29T19:49:00.000+02:002008-02-29T19:49:00.000+02:00The idea that they ate themselves to death is a ta...The idea that they ate themselves to death is a tad to comical. I think it'll make more sense if its; because they were cannibals, is why the Proto-Europoids wouldve helped contributed to annihilating them on a steady basis.Crimson Guardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08259882884691575025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-57113861789655774432008-02-29T18:29:00.000+02:002008-02-29T18:29:00.000+02:00testtestDienekes Pontikoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01341303424873475334noreply@blogger.com