11:01pm June 30, 2014

“Elderly Neanderthal man who could barely walk, had no teeth was painstakingly buried after he died, archaeologists say”

Neanderthals cared for their elders and the deceased, new evidence shows (via stressbubble)

I worry about the people who just automatically assume that things would have worked that differently. Says a lot about how they look at the world.

(via clatterbane)

I’ve talked about other findings similar to this before.  And people have (on tumblr) openly expressed extreme skepticism that such findings even existed.  Like, extreme skepticism on the order of “this is the sort of thing that only stupid liberals would believe, it’s probably just romanticizing the past”.  When we have like fossil evidence that doesn’t lie that cavemen literally carried people on their backs and chewed their food for them for their entire, long lives who were unable to do those things themselves.  You can’t make that up.

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