>"Skilled and aggressive in battle, Cro-Magnon overran the
>Neanderthal peoples of the Middle and Near East in short order...
>Cro-Magnon took full advantage of this happy position, enjoying all
>the conqueror's standard rights. In particular he took full advantage
>of Neanderthal woman. 'The sons of God saw that the daughters of
>men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.'
>Genesis VI, 2. ...Therefore, abruptly, for the first time in geological
>history we find skeletons showing mixed characteristics of Cro-
>Magnon and Neanderthal in the caves of Mount Tabor in Israel."
>(Gooch S., "The Neanderthal Question", Wildwood House: London,
>1977, p.xii)
In anthropology a 1977 source is woefully out of date. New datings with new
techniques are showing that Neanderthal and anatomically modern humans,
co-existed in the Middle east for 40,000 years. See Stringer and Gamble _In
Search of the Neanderthals_, 1993, p. 103. And I might add that Gooch has a
nice imagination.
The Neanderthals of Amud date to 50,000 years and modern man at Qafzeh dates
to 92,000 years. This hardly sounds like the gleeful rape,pillage and plunder
that your out of date source implies. If the Neanderthal were able to hold
the "Cromagnons" at bay for 42,000 years, I would say they were pretty good
fighters.
glenn
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