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  1. Cool. These days, I don’t think it’s very common for people who have bothered to learn even a little bit about Neanderthals to still think of them as stupid and barbaric. We know they were people, too!

  2. Thank you for that very interesting video.
    I love it when all the “settled science” about the past gets upset by new discoveries.
    Vote Neanderthal 2024.

  3. My old slow computer doesn’t do audio or video, so I have no idea what the above might be. But I saw a show on PBS a couple of years ago that displayed – a shelf full of rocks from a cave. The docent was droning on about anthropologists’ theories as to why these stones (smoothed and oval-ish; looked kind of like smooth potato-shaped river rock) were special enough to be kept in a Sacred Space. As she talked about the tiny fragments of wood or fibrous dust also found distributed around the stones, she was fiddling with a wooden “something” that had a sling or support at each end – and she set one of the stones onto it. So now we see a cradle holding our smooth stone up from and apart from the others. Then she struck the stone gently with a small wooden mallet. The result – a beautiful, sweet, singing tone. And then she pulled the first stone off the cradle and set a different one on, and struck it. Musical stones!!! I was just amazed.

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