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Post by arctozilla on May 13, 2024 7:24:11 GMT -5
I do know that Cro Magnons revered cave bears but I doubt Neanderthals had cave bear cults. They did not had organized religions like modern humans as we understand them.
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Post by Montezuma on May 18, 2024 12:36:13 GMT -5
I do know that Cro Magnons revered cave bears but I doubt Neanderthals had cave bear cults. They did not had organized religions like modern humans as we understand them. Well this thread clearly shows that the hypothesis of Neanderthals revering cave bears is true. The evidence is just abound as we come across various bear remains aligned in patterns in caves and graves etc which isn't the work of nature but of human. It seems like early shamanism and bear cult as these two types of religions are believed to be very ancient among early humans. |
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Post by Gorilla king on Jul 23, 2024 6:21:36 GMT -5
A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountain
Abstract
A fragment of an ursid radius with seventeen incisions (one of them incomplete) was excavated in the 1950s in the Dziadowa Skała Cave in the Częstochowa Upland in southern Poland from a deposit with faunal remains from the Eemian (ca 130-115 kyr). This object has been cited as the earliest evidence of Neanderthal cognitive abilities in the region, but it has been never studied in detail. The artefact has now been reexamined using microscopy and X-ray computed tomography. For this study we revised the determination of the bone and studied the morphology and metric parameters of the incisions (length, width, depth and opening angle). We also used experiments, statistical analysis and an analysis of the incisions' topography to establish the techniques behind their manufacture. The obtained results show that the bone was marked using a retouched stone tool, and that the incisions were produced during a single episode by a right-handed individual using repeated unidi-rectional movements of the tools' cutting edge. The incisions are evidently an effect of a deliberate action, not a side-effect of some practical activity. The bear radius from Dziadowa Skała is thus yet another piece of evidence for the emergence of symbolic culture, evolved by hominins in Africa and Eurasia, and represents the oldest example of marked bone north of the Carpathian Mountains.
www.researchgate.net/publication/380403470_A_Middle_Palaeolithic_incised_bear_bone_from_the_Dziadowa_Skala_Cave_Poland_the_oldest_marked_object_north_of_the_Carpathian_Mountains
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Post by arctozilla on Jul 23, 2024 13:03:09 GMT -5
Neanderthals did this likely.
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