Tuesday 2 October 2018

Neanderthals Could Hold a Pen

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Image courtesy of EraserGirl, CC BY 2.0.




Joel Kontinen

"Neanderthals could hold objects between finger and thumb, just like we would hold a pen, because their hands were neandertal hastag more nimble than anyone thought."

This brings them to whole-heated humanity. Apes cannot write or read.

To find out how Neanderthals used their hands, "Katerina Harvati of the University of Tübingen in Germany and her colleagues studied 'entheses': the points on the bones where muscles were attached. Each enthesis is a raised area of bone."

Her team examined the hand entheses of six Neanderthals and six early modern humans.

Iin the creation mode, Neanderthals were ice age men, leaving in Europe after the flood. It was not surprising that they made the first gluey, they lost their cavemen traits and, we have seen more cavemen inventions.

Recently, more of the skills of the Neanderthals have also been discovered. Why not to treat them as they were, as descendants of Adam and Eve.

Marshall, Michael. 2018. Neanderthals had dexterous hands that could have held tools like a pen. New Scientist (26 September).