Neanderthal Pathology – Evidence of an Atypical Human Hunter-Gatherer?

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• Dr Simon Underdown (Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University )
• Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30
• BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Aurélien Mounier.

The orthodox view of the Neanderthals largely remains one of a “cognitively inhibited” hominin lacking the behavioural and biological adaptations that allowed Homo sapiens to prosper. On-going research and excavation is showing this outmoded view to be ever more unsustainable. Using data drawn from the pathological record I will argue that the Neanderthals, far from being the lumbering, injury prone idiots of lore, were in fact typical of many human hunter-gatherer populations. Ultimately using badly devised comparisons is just as disingenuous as the arguments made for the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution.

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