THE DOG WAS THE FIRST DOMESTICATED ANIMAL WADE ETC ETC
Having claimed this, there are so many different directions I might take speculation about what these relationships might have been like.
The first thing I will suggest is that there is no one particular model for the relationships between archaic human masters and their tamed archaic humans. Nor is it clear to me that the relationship of master and tamed human was necessarily in all cases that between modern human master and tamed Neanderthal.
The reverse relationship seems also to me to be a likely feature of the prehistoric interactions between these confronting populations.
One piece of hard evidence for the known interactions between behaviorally modern humans and Neanderthals, over a long period of time, is genetic and genomic evidence in people today.
Although few people have even 5% Neanderthal DNA, the sum total of the entire Neanderthal genome known to still exist, scattered in tiny amounts among people today, is 50%.
No comments:
Post a Comment