ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dry Distillation, Field Research
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Cultural landscapes maya archaeology ield school in mexico. Talking about the pitch/glue the neanderthals use: a re-creaion of the pitch. Neanderthals had mastered a complex extracion process that scienists struggled to reproduce. How did neanderthals communicate these complex methods: they probably had language, but it is hard to discover something like that, foxp2: a gene mainly responsible for our language. Were they alike enough: the neanderthal matched the europeans and asians more than africans. People in tuscany, italy have the largest percentage of neanderthal dna today. Neanderthal ritual: burial rituals of the dead: panther paw was found near a body that is thought to have been buried on purpose. But there was interbreeding so : gradual exincion process. The neanderthal dna was absorbed by the dominant populaion and dna.