English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

I am doing a report on Neanderthals, and I ust need to know what kinds of animals they hunted, and any other random facts about them:)

2006-11-04 12:05:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

5 answers

Neandertals were hunters and gatherers that lived during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. Their life was rough and rigorous. It was so harsh that their average life span was from forty to forty-five years of age. Many aspects of their behavior contributed to this. One of these was the way in which these hominids hunted their sustenance. Neandertals participated in close range kills, meaning that they were literally in less than a foot's proximity of their prey when they attacked it. They hunted with wooden spears, hafted with stone tips, and thrusted them into animals a few inches away. In order to do this, Neandertals must have had outstanding stamina. However, it was due to this close combat with larger game that they gained several injuries that left permanent tell tale marks of pain on their bones. For example, forty-years-old was an elderly age for a Neandertal. Their forty years would be the equivalent of our sixty or eighty years.

Chech the next link, you will find a lot of information about the
Neandertals.
http://sapphire.indstate.edu/~ramanank/

2006-11-04 12:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0 0

Neanderthal had larger brains then modern man though they are considered less intelligent. With short stocky bodies they were able to retain heat very well. Neanderthal is was considered incapable of complex speech but were able to develope burial rituals, they were amoung the first to have a concept of life after death. They would have encountered early humans at the end of the ice age, either one of three things could have happened early man fought neanderthal, left him alone/coexsisted, or interbreed with him.

2006-11-04 21:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by asmidsk@verizon.net 3 · 0 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neandertals

2006-11-04 20:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by Jaco K 3 · 0 1

Uugh oog agh. fire bad. ooga chocka.

2006-11-04 20:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Joe S 6 · 0 1

c link below.
knock urself out.
:)

2006-11-04 20:08:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

fedest.com, questions and answers