There was once a Neanderthal man, brother, cousin, uncle ... then the modern man, modern man has continued its course of development, while the Neanderthals went to hell. The reason? I do not know anybody yet. The most fanciful talk of cannibalism, other fusion between the two species ... maybe we will not ever again ... in any case, these days the happy news that Neanderthals spoke, yes, he, like the pundit sapiens, could speak, and perhaps singing, something that had never been confirmed. Talking, singing, well ... of course, was able to emit sounds, much closer to the sapiens than to the more advanced ape. The evidence comes from a team of researchers at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, led by anthropologist Robert McCarthy, who presented their work during the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, held in Columbus, Ohio . They hanno analizzato i resti fossili di esemplari di Neandertal risalenti a 50mila anni fa e recuperati di recente in Francia e Inghilterra e ne hanno verificato le caratteristiche scheletrico-anatomiche, concentrandosi soprattutto sulla laringe, "tratto delle vie aeree che fa seguito alla faringe e permette l'emissione di suoni grazie alle corde vocali". In pratica, utilizzando un sintetizzatore, sono riusciti a tradurre le componenti ossee della laringe neandertaliana in vibrazioni acustiche. Una rivelazione. Ecco quindi ciò che dichiara McCarthy: "Il linguaggio dei Neanderthal secondo le nostre ricostruzioni mancherebbe del suono delle vocali estreme - a, i, u - vocali che invece contraddistinguono il parlare contemporaneo. Le vocali estreme sono le basi del linguaggio, facile capire quindi che ascoltare un uomo di Neanderthal oggi potrebbe apparire lievemente differente dalla nostra maniera di riprodurre suoni". Infine gli scienziati spiegano che probabilmente anche i neandertaliani possedevano il gene Foxp2, il cosiddetto 'gene del linguaggio', tipico dei sapiens.
I numeri del Neandertal
• I Neandertal vivono in Europa e nel sud-est dell'Asia in un periodo compreso fra 130mila e 29mila anni fa. Probabilmente la specie deriva da forme arcaiche di Homo sapiens o dall'Homo heidelbergensis.
• Analisi performed in 1997 on mitochondrial DNA of Feldhofer - the most famous Neanderthal specimen discovered in Germany in 1856 - highlight the differences between the Neanderthal lineage and ours. French studies have shown that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is clearly different from that of modern humans from that of chimpanzees.
• The Neanderthal man has an average height (about 160 cm), is strong and muscular. Has a mass of brain size similar to those of modern man. Physical development, however, is much faster than that of Homo sapiens sapiens: the brain of a Neanderthal child of five years is attributable to that an adult member of our species.
• In 1908, at Chapelle-aux-Saints, a town of southwestern France, are new to light remains of Neanderthal man. The paleontologist Marcellin Boule describes them as belonging to individuals ape-like, characterized by an uncertain and shuffling gait, stooped shoulders, primitive intellectual capacities.
• In 2007, Terry Hopkinson, an archaeologist at the University of Leicester, argues that the 'modern thought' was not born 50 thousand years ago with Homo sapiens sapiens, but long before the Neanderthal . This is his statement: "Many of those traits that we call modern, such as the use of stone tools and hunting techniques developed, began to develop at least 300 thousand years ago in Africa when it was inhabited by Neanderthals.
• ; According to recent studies conducted at the Department of Animal Biology and Genetics at the University of Florence, the classic Neanderthal had red hair and pale skin.
• The Neanderthals lived mainly hunting and in natural ravines. For the cold used animal skins.
• To man Neanderthal burials are associated with the oldest intentional human history.
• The Neanderthal stone artefacts are largely attributable to the so-called culture Mousterian (from the French site of Le Moustier) of the Middle Paleolithic. The Middle Paleolithic covers a period including the last interglacial and the early part of the Würm glaciation, between 125 thousand and 35 thousand 40-years ago.
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