Neanderthal Pyrates?

[hitman]

So if the Neanderthals beat us to seafaring would they not have been the first to go a pyrating? All laughs and giggles sure but......

http://m.io9.com/5889484/neanderthals-were-sailing-the-mediterranean-100000-years-ago

[Jas. Hook]

Hummmm... using the "But we can identify ancient Neanderthal presence through the distinctive Mousterian stone tools that they left behind, which have been found on the coastal Greek islands..."

What if a stone tool or two was picked up at an ancient campsite by a coastal trader seeking ballast in 800 BC and moved as ship's ballast to be off loaded on an offshore island and this same event occurred again in 200 AD moving one of these stone tools to yet another isle would the existance of two stones on different islands prove a migration pattern???

Jas. Hook

[peglegstrick]

Love the idea of Neanderthal Pirates...........the idea sends shivers dowm me spine! They would had to have been a fearsome bunch.....

[hitman]

Jas i had the same thought though I would hope the archeologists involved would have factored in things such as location, placement, and potential site corruption. The article is rather brief as I pulled it from IO9 and I'd imagine the original paper would go further Into such details but I wasn't in the mood to look into it.

Peglegstrick I agree hate to cross em.

Edited March 2, 2012 by hitman

[Jas. Hook]

Love the idea of Neanderthal Pirates...........the idea sends shivers dowm me spine! They would had to have been a fearsome bunch.....

Hey this could give Oderlesseye an idea for his next production...

Attack of the Neanderthal Pirates or maybe Blackbeard in Time

Jas. Hook

Edited March 2, 2012 by Jas. Hook

[peglegstrick]

Love the idea of Neanderthal Pirates...........the idea sends shivers dowm me spine! They would had to have been a fearsome bunch.....

Hey this could give Oderlesseye an idea for his next production...

Attack of the Neanderthal Pirates or maybe Blackbeard in Time

Jas. Hook

I love it! Oderlesseye how about it?

[Capn Bob]

Takin' off me pirate hat and puttin' on me flintknapper's leather gloves for a minute...I suppose it would depend on just how far inland the artifact was...I can see the...umm...point (cough), but if the ballast was dumped just offshore, that might not account for its presence up the hills, as it were.

Of course, what with glaciation and sea levels being lower, many of those islands may have been connected.

Gloves off and Ishi Stick down now...

Hummmm... using the "But we can identify ancient Neanderthal presence through the distinctive Mousterian stone tools that they left behind, which have been found on the coastal Greek islands..."

What if a stone tool or two was picked up at an ancient campsite by a coastal trader seeking ballast in 800 BC and moved as ship's ballast to be off loaded on an offshore island and this same event occurred again in 200 AD moving one of these stone tools to yet another isle would the existance of two stones on different islands prove a migration pattern???

Jas. Hook