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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
We really don't know if they had much written language. It would have to be chiseled in stone to survive 6,000 years unless it happened to be caught in a glacier like Ötzi and that is exceeding rare.
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Nice write up and I just burned a fun hour on Wiki since noon EST.
The earliest cave painting found is at the 50k mark. A caribou-ish looking animal.
Most all of us have Neanderthal genes. African descendants of the original "crew" that did not leave have none. Neanderthal did not migrate that far south to mingle.
We have genes that make us immune to certain germs/viruses that may have come from Neanderthal and those genes were not necessary in Africa.
From what I read Neanderthal lasted until about 400k years ago while the genus Homo is estimated to have kicked in around 2.5M years ago.
The time involved is hard to wrap your head around.
Otzi was a great documentary. I thought he died on a mountain with a high elevation but ice melted enough for him to be spotted.