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		<title>By: Ron Rayner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Rayner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This may seem nasty,but,perhaps Neanderthal man lacked a even a little bit of psychopathy.</description>
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		<title>By: The Relevance of Anthropology – Part 2 on the Best of Anthro Blogging 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Relevance of Anthropology – Part 2 on the Best of Anthro Blogging 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] (John Hawks Weblog) Do Politicians and Pundits Think We’re Stupid? (From the Annals of Anthroman) Neanderthals were not stupid (A Hot Cup of Joe) Philosophers Discover Lost Tribe in Jungles of Free Will (Savage Minds) The [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The Relevance of Anthropology – Part 1 on the Best of Anthro Blogging 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Relevance of Anthropology – Part 1 on the Best of Anthro Blogging 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Anthropology) Maria and Meaning (ethnografix) Neanderthals Had Language (Babel’s Dawn) Neanderthals were not stupid (A Hot Cup of Joe) The Revenge of the Local, the Horror of the Provincial, and Western [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Marcelino 2.0 &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcelino 2.0 &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] General Discussion Neanderthals were not stupid (A Hot Cup of Joe) Human Evolution on Trail – Technology (remote central) Chomsky’s Theory of [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Os prémios para os melhores posts em blogs de antropologia em 2008 &#171; Comunidade Imaginada</title>
		<link>http://ahotcupofjoe.net/2008/08/neanderthals-were-not-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-434</link>
		<dc:creator>Os prémios para os melhores posts em blogs de antropologia em 2008 &#171; Comunidade Imaginada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] General Discussion Neanderthals were not stupid (A Hot Cup of Joe) Human Evolution on Trail – Technology (remote central) Chomsky’s Theory of [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The &#8220;Best of Anthro 2008&#8243; Prizes &#171; Neuroanthropology</title>
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		<dc:creator>The &#8220;Best of Anthro 2008&#8243; Prizes &#171; Neuroanthropology</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] General Discussion Neanderthals were not stupid (A Hot Cup of Joe) Human Evolution on Trail – Technology (remote central) Chomsky’s Theory of [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Round Up of the Best of Anthro 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</title>
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		<dc:creator>Round Up of the Best of Anthro 2008 &#171; Neuroanthropology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Hot Cup of Joe Popular: Neanderthals Were Not Stupid Three years of experimental archaeology, where smart people made the same tools as Neanderthals and [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For what it&#039;s worth, there&#039;s also an interesting article in the most recent National Geographic on this exact subject (the cover story even!).  I&#039;m assuming it&#039;s a little dumbed down for us non-archaeologist types, but it&#039;s got pretty pictures and is an interesting read.</description>
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		<title>By: Luis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Luis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>H. Sapiens also used flake-only techs in many places and probably Neanderthals also used blades at some point (Amoudian, later Chatelperronian too). It doesn&#039;t seem this issue is truly central, except in the particular case of the colonization of Europe by people of Aurignacian culture. 

While it&#039;s possible that Aurignacian tech particularly offered some advantages to our ancestors over Neanderthal-made Chatelperronian (or whatever other techs they used elsewhere), there are other possible reasons why H. sapiens became eventually advantaged over Neanderthals. These range from greater flexibility to exploit marginal resources by AMHs to high-mortality epydemics affecting the natives. The most thought-provoking explanation I have read though is that of Clive Gamble, who studied the spatial use of both species and concluded that Neanderthals used much smaller portions, maybe because H. sapiens had developed greater gender-based division of labor, allowing male hunters to exploit much wider areas without having to care for kids. 

It&#039;s not that they were stupid, they surely were not, but it does seem that both species had different strategies, different behavioural patterns and possibly our ancestors showed greater versatility. Generalists, wide-range resource users normally win.</description>
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<p>While it&#8217;s possible that Aurignacian tech particularly offered some advantages to our ancestors over Neanderthal-made Chatelperronian (or whatever other techs they used elsewhere), there are other possible reasons why H. sapiens became eventually advantaged over Neanderthals. These range from greater flexibility to exploit marginal resources by AMHs to high-mortality epydemics affecting the natives. The most thought-provoking explanation I have read though is that of Clive Gamble, who studied the spatial use of both species and concluded that Neanderthals used much smaller portions, maybe because H. sapiens had developed greater gender-based division of labor, allowing male hunters to exploit much wider areas without having to care for kids. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that they were stupid, they surely were not, but it does seem that both species had different strategies, different behavioural patterns and possibly our ancestors showed greater versatility. Generalists, wide-range resource users normally win.</p>
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		<title>By: Four Tangled Blue Banks &#171; Neuroanthropology</title>
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		<dc:creator>Four Tangled Blue Banks &#171; Neuroanthropology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] favorites include Oetzi the IceMan&#8217;s clothes, Neanderthals were not stupid, and the article in PLoS about life in the Sahara 7000 years ago, complete with some striking [...]</description>
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