Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "Neanderthals u0026 Art: Interview with Dr. Wragg Sykes" video.

I would not bet against you there.
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I suspect there are not enough Neander locations to do a statistical comparison... but idk. Any idea how many sites are attributed to them?
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In Australia they eat bits of termite mounds, which have iron in a form that can be easily absorbed. I think all kids eat dirt and try mud paint and mud moccasins etc. Mud is wonderful.
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Neanderthal art is technically competent but lacks the range and emotional depth of modern work such as imitation Neanderthal art.
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do you have red hair?
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@CuRous_ApCraig interesting! looked it up, yes it says MC1R a red hair gene not found in Neanderthals, but common in Tawian aboroginals.
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Well it's probably true they couldn't predict the ice age. Your teacher was only off by the difference between a summer and ten thousand years.
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@thoughtscanbedisease4495 Fascinating. Ok... there has to be a way to show oral tradition, if it existed! 1. If Neander art is found that depicts long term phenomenon, such as precession of equinoxes, that would show multi-generational transfer of knowledge. (or cross species transfer with sapeins, which would also be a win). 2. If Neander art in distant areas showed the same elements, and these elements do not seem obvious from the environment, that would also argue for oral tradition. (or a very mobile art crew). I suppose oral tradition also needs a supernatural imagination to become religion. I feel that early humanoids were generally religious, and so my guess is that Neanders had proto religion, and this will be huge when enough Neander art is known, and can be tested by ideas like yours.
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@patrickblanchette4337 fascinating. My friend with red hair says he's got a lot of Neanderthal (he's never been analyzed) because of his hair and his extremely strong bones.
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yeah that was an amazing talk on the 32 symbols
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@G_zuz I think most animals are religious, so religion goes back to before we were even human
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